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sb306 Full Member Offline I hate Nvidia! Posts: 154 Fresno ca, U.S. Gender:	Newer Motherboards and voodoo 26.03.09 at 23:00:50 I havent recieved my motherboards yet. But, In the case that they dont work(or I just want new stuff) I was just wondering how a 5500 pci will work with the newer motherboards, like a athlon 64 or something like that. I wasnt sure how the fsb speeds would effect the pci slots etc etc. Thanks in advance.
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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: Newer Motherboards and voodoo Reply #1 - 27.03.09 at 00:11:46 the pci version should have no problems running in new motherboards.
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Re: Newer Motherboards and voodoo
Reply #2 - 27.03.09 at 15:38:24

I run a v5 PCI into an AM2+ mobo ( nforce 750a SLI ) together with a Phenom 9850 CPU.
The card is rock stable.
No problems so far.
Wink

There is something that i do not understand:

I was surprized to get the same 3Dmark2001 score ( around 2500 points) on this quadcore CPU as on my Mobile XP ( single core ).
Afaik the 3DMark2001 is very sensible to any sistem change, and in my case there was a new platform, quad core CPU, 4gb ram.....i find this score very strange !!! Angry

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Re: Newer Motherboards and voodoo
Reply #3 - 28.03.09 at 04:57:21

m14radu wrote on 27.03.09 at 15:38:24:

I run a v5 PCI into an AM2+ mobo ( nforce 750a SLI ) together with a Phenom 9850 CPU.
The card is rock stable.
No problems so far.
Wink

There is something that i do not understand:

I was surprized to get the same 3Dmark2001 score ( around 2500 points) on this quadcore CPU as on my Mobile XP ( single core ).
Afaik the 3DMark2001 is very sensible to any sistem change, and in my case there was a new platform, quad core CPU, 4gb ram.....i find this score very strange !!! Angry

So final;y we have V5 3dmark score on a modern machine

Thanks man!

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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Newer Motherboards and voodoo Reply #4 - 28.03.09 at 09:30:22 The score is in my opinion very low. I even overclock the phenom from 2.5Ghz to 3.2Ghz, and get just an minimal score increase ( about 100 points.. ) Maybe on an intel platform you will get higher scores. I used the SFFT 1.5 driver, and win XP.
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Newer Motherboards and voodoo Reply #5 - 28.03.09 at 21:04:06 I think there's something wrong with your software (drivers) or those PCI cards are very bus limited. I used to get 2500+ points on my Pentium 4 2,26GHz with V5 5500 AGP. Overclocking it to around 2,5GHz got me up to 2900+ points. (SiS 645DX chipset btw)
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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Newer Motherboards and voodoo Reply #6 - 28.03.09 at 21:21:14 I tryed also the Amigamerlin drivers, and the score is not changed. Wehn overclocking the card to 190Mhz the score rise with around 100 points. I will try to overclock the PCI bus
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Re: Newer Motherboards and voodoo
Reply #7 - 23.05.09 at 00:33:38

I've upgraded my Voodoo 5 5500 system to Abit KT7a with a Tbred 2400+ running at 20x107Mhz (2160Mhz) with SDRAM memory runnung at 144Mhz and with highest quality setting I get 2393 marks 2001 SE.

Lowest quality setting yields up 2576 points. Gonna try out swiftshader and see how it goes with nature test

I can hardly wait for my barton-M 1.35V to come... I would try this at 2.6Ghz to see how far it goes

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sb306 Full Member Offline I hate Nvidia! Posts: 154 Fresno ca, U.S. Gender:	Re: Newer Motherboards and voodoo Reply #8 - 23.05.09 at 11:33:08 Here are some simple benchmarks I got while comparing a pci 5500 to an agp 5500. I was surprised, but it looks like the pci version is bus limited much earlier(cpu) than I thought it would be. http://www.falconfly.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1240224181
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