Since I've already gotten messages saying unsealing old stuff is just an _awful_ thing to do, here's some context. This is the only 3500 TV I've found complete in box under $300 after years of looking. Being sealed was a nice bonus but it was never gonna stay that way, that's not how I do things :) The whole reason I bought this was to open it up, thoroughly enjoy it, document the experience, and eventually give it the LGR treatment by sharing some fun videos with the world! I've never had an interest in paying good money for old hardware and software only to keep it locked in a cellophane prison forever.

Techtubers: *"RTX 3080 Benchmarks are here! Embargo is lifted!"* LGR: *"Voodoo 3 3500 is here! My soul is lifted!"*

"I haven't seen one of these in at least 20 years" Me in 20 years when I finally get a 3090

I had one of these in college. I *LOVED* it. The AV pod that came with it got used to provide video in from my Dreamcast so I could play it on my monitor. I ran my cable box into the TV antenna input and used my computer as an all-in-one media center before all-in-one media centers were a thing. It was a perfect thing for a college student with a decent enough PC.

My youtube feed today: RTX 3080 RTX 3080 RTX 3080 RTX 3080 RTX 3080 RTX 3080 Boring! ... Voodoo 3 3500 Frack yea gimme some of that!

This card was the first thing I ever purchased on eBay, over 20 years ago. I used it for years, and captured hundreds of hours of footage through the composite cables to edit together a skate video that just reeks of early aughts and VHS 'aesthetic'. Such fond memories.

"Should send it to Epic, see what they do." This is why we love you, LGR.

You should ABSOLUTELY send the coupon to Epic! Then do another video when they reply!

Clint is like my therapy. His voice and vids calm the hell outta me. Even if I don't know 70% of what he's talking about, Im learning over time and connecting dots and learning lore and its all so relaxing. Whenever Im having a hard day or just need relaxing entertainment, Clint always seems to know. Thanks, LGR

Nice to see the thick cable. That meas they actually cared about crosstalk and signal integrity.

That slip that read "Déclaration de Conformité CE" is actually to do with the European Union (or more correctly at the time, the European Community), and refers to the "Council Directive 92/31/EEC of 28 April 1992 amending Directive 89/336/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to electromagnetic compatibility". So it's like the European equivalent of those FCC notices.

When Clint said "no sense wasting time, it's been sitting there for 21 years", that hit different. Has it really been this long? Where'd the time go? I didn't realise it at the time, but the Winamp era was a golden age of wonder and possibility for personal computing.

The color scheme of the pod looks like it would go perfectly with the hot wheels pc. I'm so happy you get to experience nostalgia opening old new products for a living. That's the dream!

Nothing on the box could have prepared me for the sheer chonkiness of The Pod™

Me: Is he going to smell it? Is he going to smell it? LGR: [Smells it]

I'm glad you opened it. Leaving things sealed is lame and defeats the point of things.

OMG I miss these days! My first 3d accelerator was the Matrox Mystique! then got the 3dfx Banshee! 3dfx and 2d combined!, then upped to an ATI radeon 7200.. That feeling... knowing there were so many different 3d cards. Rendition Verite, PowerVR, Matrox, 3dFX, S3 Virge, we had so many options back then. Good times.

I'm ok with you unsealing things. In fact I'm more than ok I love watching these. You are the tech version of Steve1989 who does the MRE's! This thing looks uber cool, the breakout box reminds me of the one that came with my Matrox realtime video editing card I used around that time period.

Never commented on a youtube video before - making an exception to say this really brings back memories of the year 2000 and persuading my parents to spend £150 on exactly this video card. Unlocked a whole world of games, especially Glide-based - UT99, Deus Ex etc. Good times! Edit - the thing in French is for the EU.

Why is it so satisfying watching you open stuff? It must be the attention to detail. It feels like such a complete experience. I actually enjoy watching you open up stuff more than opening it myself.

Love this card. Still, have it sitting in my closet. Made full use of the tuner, removing the need for a TV in my room back in the day.

The French side was the declaration of conformity for the European Economic Area. It's just says that it passed the requirements to legally have a CE marking.

I love how you treat these bits of hardware with the exact same reverence as I would, were I in the position to collect such awesome bits of history. Don't fret the folks saying you shouldn't open these things, it's a crime to deny them their purpose after so many years!

*Every tech company in the late 90's early 00's:* We must make even more brightly coloured chunky plastic things! Everyone loves those! They'll never go out of style!

Man, I miss browsing electronics stores' computer sections and seeing all the graphics cards on the shelves, especially with how ExTrEmE they went with the box art. It was like a gallery of 90's awesome. "Does your graphics card have an FM radio? I think not!" - I had to pause the video to stop laughing

everyone else rtx 3080 LGR: old ass hardware 😆

Send that Unreal voucher... (Palpatines voice) Do it.

"SNIFF! Aw yeah that's good!" That was perfect.

That "DVI" port is a VESA Enhanced Video Connector by the looks of it. I have an old ATI card that uses the same connection.

Everybody else: Here is the RTX 3080 LGR: This video card from when I was in middle school

I remember lusting after the Voodoo line for a while. The Voodoo 3 3000 was the first one I bought. I had just turned 18 and had a fairly high paying job doing tech support in a call center. $10.50 an hour in 1999 was a lot of money for an 18 year old and my very first paycheck went to that Voodoo 3 and an 80GB Quantum Fireball hard drive that I bought from a Fry's Electronics. Getting home and starting up Quake 2 in Glide mode for the very first time was an out of body experience.

I swear I've seen that Voodoo man every year since 1998, but he was haunting my dreams. The glorious graphics card isle at Fry's Electronics filled with Voodoo 2's and 3's had an impact on me as well!

tech channels on youtube: GTX 3080 LGR Blerbs: Voodoo 3

It was a pleasure experiencing this with you. Wanted one of these so bad when I was like 9. Thank you.

LGR cuts open a sealed box of anything Wierd collector dudes: Angry noises Me: Happy noises

My first computer's graphics card,, I picked it specifically for the tv tuner feature and used it often.

Dude, that's 1337.

I still remember on back of one of the voodo card boxes it had this quote i will never forget. Feel the visual waves of happiness flow over you.

That unboxing was straight up GPU ASMR. Definitely soothing as I sit here with a 3080 shaped hole in my heart.

LGR: "It's from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, wherever that is." Me, thinking to myself... It's about 11 miles North of Minneapolis.

Back in the day we had TV and FM radio in our GPUs, now we have raytracing in quake 2 and minecraft on our GPUs

9:33 Been a lot of Clint smelling new old stock ASMR lately. Always makes me smile.

Thank you for sharing, Mr. Clint. Boxes are made to be opened. If I put something into a box with no intention to open it again, I would call it a coffin.

That's the CHONKIEST cable I have ever seen meant to connect to a graphics card. Holy circuit breakers, batman!

I bought this card on release and paid a fortune for it. But I loved the card escpecially the TV-Tuner.

This brought back some lovely memories. We had one of these back when I was a kid - the massive cable-wart-thing made it one of the most unique peripherals I've ever used. Never really got all of the functions running at the time, but it was still a decent enough graphics card with some fun toys to play with.

Putting this video out today at the end of NDA for the RTX 3080 deserves you a golden medal and a place in the hall of fame of KZfaq :D .

unsealing things is completely fine. don't see a problem. these things are going to be complete useless in the near future anyway, unless you REALLY need to have old technology for some reason. so why keeping is unused all the time? love your vids!

The second graphics card I ever bought, it replaced a voodoo 2 that I bought to run cutting edge 3d games like Star Trek Armada and Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption. Man, seems like yesterday. The TV tuner I used to record stuff I was missing in primetime working the late shift. If I recorded more than 1hr, the audio desync would be so bad it'd be like watching a dubbed film.

Omg, until I saw that thicc blue cable, I had forgotten that I totally owned this card in college! I was working at a computer store at the time, and used my paychecks to buy a couple parts at a time to build my dream game machine :) Because of my love of this card, I remained a holdout on switching to 32-bit graphics cards for probably too long lol. I totally watched cable on the TV tuner too! My computer monitor was the only TV in my dorm’s bedroom! Thanks for taking me down memory lane.

Brings back memories of buying one of those new back in the day! Superb cards. Was also my introduction in to the world of Unreal, still picking my jaw off the ground now! lol

Takes a big ole drag off the new card smell.... "Ohhh that's good"

I was curious, because I don't really ever see "X Triangles/Sec" advertised as a spec for GPUs anymore, I kind of thought maybe the number had become so high that it was irrelevant. Boy was I right. I found an article talking about Nvidia's Mesh Shading technique new to Turing GPUs. The RTX 2080 can render 17 _billion_ triangles per second for a performance increase vs the Voodoo3 3500 of 2,125x

The Voodoo 3 3500 was the very first GPU I bought. I used to refer to that hefty blue dongle as my "Home Defense Mace". Not only was it huge n' heavy, it was on a 6' cable! Boy did this video kick me square in the nostalgia! Thank you.

I get why some people may like to keep sealed boxes, but I love this thing LGR do, he documents the unboxing that can be the only one on KZfaq, specially in this resolution and quality. This is a way better way of keeping the legacy of old pieces of tech than just keeping it sealed in a personal museum.

Paraphrasing of actual conversation from 1999: Dude unaware of demoscene: "Have you checked out Unreal?" Me unaware of game: "Yeah, I love it, though Second Reality is better." Dude: "Wow, who made Second Reality?" Me: "Oh, the same people. You should definitely download it!" Dude: "Thanks, I will!" It was weeks before I learned about the game, and wondered if that guy ever figured out what I was talking about.

I remember when these lined the shelves at Futureshop, and other computer stores. Along side the ATI cards and Nvidia GeForces of the day. The good times..

This is a really calming video, the sounds of the box and the contents really set me at ease in a way

I had one of these. It was probably my favorite video card I ever owned. It was reliable, and actually remained fairly quick for a long time. Plus the ability to record clips off of broadcast television was pretty darn cool in 1999.

Everyone: look at that 3080 performance with real-time ray tracing! LGR: dude, I've got 3500 already with real-time FM radio.

Everybody else: Here is the RTX 3080, we can do some testing! LGR: Smells the Voodoo 3 3500 TV AGP Graphics Card

Oh my god this brings back a boatload of nostalgia! My dad got one of these as a thank you from a hardware supplier he bought computers and other gear from for work but he could never get it to work right in our home computer. About six years later I dug this out of a cabinet because I REALLY wanted a TV in my room but I didn't have money to actually buy a TV. What I did have, though, was this card, a mothballed Pentium II rig, and Sony Trinitron 500PS that had been collecting dust in the garage. I spent a week tracking down working drivers for this and the grab bag of hardware in that box to run in Windows 98. The end result was the most stupidly over-engineered cable TV setup ever and it was AWESOME. It's been something like fourteen years since I put that monstrosity together and it remains my favorite PC project ever.

Just want to say, I have had so much fun over the past few weeks/months going over both the Blerbs and regular LGR videos. It rekindled my fire for everything I have that is ancient in my basement that I need to fix up, including an old Tandy 1992 Windows 3.1 PC, and the first PC I ever had, an IBM Aptiva Multimedia PC from 1993-94ish also running Windows 3.1 and OS/2. I might've stated that before, sorry if so... but it just really gets my gears grinding to figure it out. I love old tech, and this brings back so many memories as does many of your videos. Keep doing you, keep it up, and thank you so much.

Every other Techtuber: Time for the RTX 3000 series LGR: oh yeah? Check out the Voodoo3 3500! Never change Clint

8 million polys a second is 266k at 30fps (33ms). I'm also guessing that 8 million is theoretical so in real life im sure its lower, I am going to round down to 250k. Thats about on par of gaming consoles like the PS2/Game cube/Xbox time frame (which this card came out just before). Cool card!

I built surveillance vehicles in the 90s and 2000s and that new electronics smell never NEVER got old!

The Voodoo3 3500 TV was my first serious video card. It was an eBay purchase, and sadly didn't come with the pod/dongle. I spent weeks sourcing a P&D to VGA adapter just to get it up and running. I did eventually find a pod to get all of the I/O functionality. Wow. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

every youtube tech influencer i've seen today: alright today we are lucky enough to be unboxing an RTX 3080 LGR: alright today we are lucky enough to be unboxing a Voodoo 3 3500 TV AGP graphics card

That cable reminds me of SCART ones in terms of girth.

Everyone dropping 3080 benchmarks, Clint "hold my beer, 3dfx 3500!" Nib. Can't wait for the follow up always love seeing the old new stock stuff, makes me wanna build a rig for older games that just don't play nice with the new hardware, or at all in some cases. Keep'em coming Clint!

I had a Voodoo 3500 TV card back in the day. It was so much fun and did a lot of video editing and capturing projects with it. Oh the memories.

Me: When is he going to smell it? LGR @9:32: “I can smell it too. (sniffs)” Me: And there it is.

Listening and tuning into FM radio while gaming xP

Man, when you mentioned the wall of Voodoo cards in Best Buy that gave me real nostalgia. I always wanted one of the 3500s like that but never got one.

Nice unboxing, took me back quite a few years. Glad to see that you have it unboxed, now get that beast in a PC and cant wait to see what you do with it.

Please show us what that MPEG2 input was used for. I've never seen something like that.

Nvidia: 3000 series will change everything Lgr: yeah, 3000 series

WOW! I won this card at a big lan party when I was 13... I'm now 34 :) Thanks for unboxing this. Brought back memories :)

That brings back memories. I was the computer sales manager at The Office Depot back in 1999 and when this came in I had hid one of them to I could buy after my shift. Sold out in one day where I worked. Awesome card plus having TV through my Sony Trinitron Flat CRT was cool too. Thanks for the flash back.

Heh, Still have my Voodoo5 somewhere. I also had V3, V2 solo and SLI with doubled texture memory on each board, as well as the first one (Voodoo Graphics?). IIRC this TV variant supposed to have some kind of next-gen tuner chip that replaced big chunk of analog circuits in that tin box.

The ATI All-in-wonders were nicer, especially cable management wise with the input breakout dongle/box

Clint, when you took that deep breath into the card I swear to you my brain triggered the smell of new electronics in my nose. Damn that's some good smellavision!

That is some extreme nostalgia there! This was my first ever hardware purchase. Pretty much got me into PC building. Quake 2 blew my mind with different colored lighting effects after install. Wonder how things would have been like if NVIDIA did not buy out 3DFX.

Oh my god, it's the *_NEW_* 3000 series card!

Everyone: reviews the 30s series LGR: yo wanna see a card from the 90s

Brings back memories. I was a 3dfx man back in the day. I had voodoo 2 x2 in SLI, Voodoo 3 3000 and Voodoo 5 5500. I kept them all and their packaging but they got misplaced over the years. I do have one more place to check when I can get back to CA. I hope they are there!

This Voodoo 3500 AGP2x TV edition is some seriously epic all-in-one 90s PC kit, it made magic happen back in the day.

"somewhere in Minnesota" lol it's like 15 miles from me

Never felt this uncomfortable listening in to a man getting to know his card intimately

What a trip down memory lane! I bought this card to replace a 2mb Matrox Millennium in '99 and it was amazing. The breakout cable was unwieldy and would never sit flat on my desk. However it was fun to be able to watch TV broadcasts on my (17") PC monitor that weighed about 30 lbs! :)

OMG, I LOVE that card!! When I did my first gaming machine upgrade back in the day, I couldn't decide between the 3000 or the 3500 AGP. Went with the 3500, LOVED IT for the TV tuner. Had it hooked up to cable and my VCR, was SWEET!

I ran one of those in a K6 rig for years after it came out. FIC-VA-503+ motherboard, K6-III+ 450@560, and a Voodoo3 3500 that I mounted a fan on and ran at 202 MHz. I had that machine running all the way up to about 2010 for playing old games. Sold the Voodoo and wish I hadn't.

Thanks for opening it and showing us whats inside LGR! You didn't have to but you did! Thanks.

Love the passion! Never thought people were into these really old pc’s. I remember owning similar hardware back in the day. Was gutted when 3dfx went bump.

I recently dug out my BFG 6800 Ultra OC AGP card from my old Dell Dimension desktop and gave it a good cleaning after over a decade of it just sitting collecting dust in my garage. It was the very first PC component I've ever purchased and is what made me the enthusiasts I am today!

Funny, I used to get so excited over new voodoo cards, and nowadays I'm like, yeah ok 2080, 3080 whatever. This takes me back. Great vid.

I had exactly the same card Voodoo 3 3500 TV VIVO graphics - and i LOVED IT ! It would be great if it came after my SLI setup of 2 Voodoo 2 cards i had before it. But no, sad story i've sold of my components to a friend, planing to upgrade to a new PC, war broke out , and in the middle of things i've lost my wallet with bunch of cash that was supposed to go towards new pc. I've begged my father for a loan so i can rebuild my pc , and bough the cheapest crap graphic with Intel 740 chip just to get by for some time - man that card had bugs all over the place. Voodoo 3 3500 was something special to me back then , as i've earned it with hard work just to get back to something descent. Unfortunately i moved in the rented apartment as a student at the time which didn't had external aerial so i had to use a shoddy room antenna , and it totally ruined my experience of watching TV. But yes that cable with a pod was chunky af , but it had to be cause it supposed to negate interference between signals of both sides coming trough it , you had AV in and Out you could use at the same time. Sadly i sold of mine in like 2003 and that was the sad end of my 3dfx ownership .

I still have my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI with original box, etc. This video makes me want to "warm it up" again and relive better days! I actually loved it so much that I installed a cooling fan on the heatsink to make it last for...well...forever I had hoped! 😁

First time something owned has been featured on oddware/blurbs! Man that pod brings back a lot of memories! I may even still have that card and pod in a closet somewhere. I used to be all about TV capture cards, so I jumped on this thing when it was new!

Happy to see you made a follow up video from the eThrifts.