The key to an easy installation of the board is to move all your IDE, power, and sound cables out of the way to make room for this ¾ length AGP card. After that, it's just like any other AGP card. Insert into AGP port, and plug into power supply. The familiar Voodoo3 installation procedure is back in the Voodoo5, install drivers before installing the card. After the drivers were in place, I shut down the computer, inserted the Voodoo5 and rebooted to a perfectly normal desktop. Of course the first thing I had to do was tinker in the 3dfx Tools panel.

The all-familiar Tools panel is present in the Voodoo5, this time as an icon on the taskbar. The placement is great because one double click on the taskbar icon will bring you directly to the tabbed tools menu with the FSAA tab preselected. You can set your FSAA settings in one double click, can't be easier. Also, it gives you access to quick resolution changing and weblinks. All the standard features are in the Tools menu such as color adjustment, advanced features, info… but what we haven't seen before that became standard was an overclock menu. Yep, that's right, it seems that 3dfx is finally realizing that people will overclock their cards no matter what they say about it. The overclock panel is disabled by default because of Microsoft WHQL regulations, but can be enabled through the registry or a patch downloadable through 3dfx's website. They also stress that overclocking can damage your system and all of that other legal stuff.