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razrx God Member Offline 3dfx Addict Posts: 839 Great Lakes, Canada Gender:	Maximum recommended requirements 29.11.08 at 22:22:22 What is the maximum recommended hardware for an original Voodoo Graphics based card? I plan to use a PURE3D or a Monster3D. Specifially the Motherboard chipset. NOTE: it must have one ISA slot
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RaverX God Member Offline Voodoo2 fan Posts: 533 Oradea, Romania Gender:	Re: Maximum recommended requirements Reply #1 - 30.11.08 at 00:31:43 I'd say that anything more than a P2-350 is a waste, but you could go with a P3 board if you really want. I remember that back in 98, when V2 was out, almost all tests proven that P1 MMX 233 MHz was the limit for V1, P2 was much too fast for V1, there were only some very small gains in new games.
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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: Maximum recommended requirements Reply #2 - 30.11.08 at 12:21:02 p3 based board with intel chipset would be my recommendation.bit overkill for v1 as already mentioned,but it shouldnt really matter much,considering the price of those boards/cpus
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razrx God Member Offline 3dfx Addict Posts: 839 Great Lakes, Canada Gender:	Re: Maximum recommended requirements Reply #3 - 28.12.08 at 22:01:47 Hmmmm.... Ok, I will look for a motherboard that max's out to a PII 450mhz and get a PII 450mhz chip. Any motherboard recommendations?
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RaverX God Member Offline Voodoo2 fan Posts: 533 Oradea, Romania Gender:	Re: Maximum recommended requirements Reply #4 - 28.12.08 at 23:48:23 Just about any BX440 board should be fine. Intel, Abit, Asus are very good choices. You can't go wrong with a prebuild, brands like Dell or Compaq are very good. Fujitsu or IBM is ok too, but they like too much proprietary boards, layouts and components.
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Reply #5 - 29.12.08 at 01:44:19

Indeed, go for an i440BX-based motherboard. Don't get to fancy and try faster parts as the Voodoo Graphics boards might fail running in modern hardware. For example; I had trouble using the Voodoo Graphics in an i820 slot 1 board with RD-RAM. Tried both Pentium II and Pentium III CPU's but didn't work out. Another example: an AMD Athlon XP OC'ed to 2533MHz on nForce2 (EPoX 8RDA) runs fine Roll Eyes

. Anyhow, I noticed that the newer the hardware, the less Voodoo Graphics (not to mention Voodoo Rush :X) boards did actually work properly.

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Reply #6 - 29.12.08 at 02:58:53

Yes, I have been downgrading my Voodoo 1 PC to find the highest working board possible with my V1 cards.

I've gone through a Tualatin based P3 mobo, a Palomino based EPoX 8KTA3+PRO. I have on order a 8KTA2 mobo which is 100mhz only, but I think that will be too high, so I was thinking of getting a PII only board. Some of those BX440 boards support a lot, including 133mhz fsb, which I have been told could be an underlying reason why I'm having issues with my Pure3D and Monster3D cards.

I have been trying EPoX boards but maybe I should go with ASUS? I think I had an ABiT BE6 back in the day.....

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Reply #7 - 29.12.08 at 05:04:58

I'm very curious why do you insist on trying the "highest" configuration for a V1 ? Breaking some 3dmark record at V1 category ?

It just doesn't make any sense to me, I told you, anything higher than a P2 350 is simply not gonna get any performace for a V1, even if you overclock that V1 twice the frequency (wich I doubt you can, even with nitrogen cooling, the TMU chip on the V1 gets *really* hot.

So, try to find a good BX440 board, slap there a P2 cpu and be happy. I'd even advise to go P1 way, that was the config back then, P2 got on the market after the V1 launch. So P1+V1, nice vintage config, P2 or P3 good for V2 SLI or V3, and a nice Tualatin or Athlon should make a nice CPU for V4/V5.

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razrx God Member Offline 3dfx Addict Posts: 839 Great Lakes, Canada Gender:	Re: Maximum recommended requirements Reply #8 - 29.12.08 at 06:16:06 Since parts are quite cheap to get, I may as well get the fastest V1 board/cpu I can. Also, with the newer hardware comes newer or faster features, such as onboard USB or higher ATA speeds. I will follow your advisement and do some searching.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Maximum recommended requirements Reply #9 - 29.12.08 at 12:47:23 I had no problems with a Celeron 1000 on a BX board (10 x 100)
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Reply #10 - 29.12.08 at 16:04:07

RaverX wrote on 29.12.08 at 05:04:58:

I'm very curious why do you insist on trying the "highest" configuration for a V1 ? Breaking some 3dmark record at V1 category ?

It just doesn't make any sense to me, I told you, anything higher than a P2 350 is simply not gonna get any performace for a V1, even if you overclock that V1 twice the frequency (wich I doubt you can, even with nitrogen cooling, the TMU chip on the V1 gets *really* hot.

So, try to find a good BX440 board, slap there a P2 cpu and be happy. I'd even advise to go P1 way, that was the config back then, P2 got on the market after the V1 launch. So P1+V1, nice vintage config, P2 or P3 good for V2 SLI or V3, and a nice Tualatin or Athlon should make a nice CPU for V4/V5.

Hm, not a bad idea. A 3DMark99 contest Tongue

. Now that would require serious tweaking because every 0.001MHz of the card will get you higher points Grin

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razrx God Member Offline 3dfx Addict Posts: 839 Great Lakes, Canada Gender:	Re: Maximum recommended requirements Reply #11 - 30.12.08 at 11:25:46 I have an ASUS P3B-F with an unknown slot 1 P3 cpu on it's way. I really hope this one works.
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RaverX God Member Offline Voodoo2 fan Posts: 533 Oradea, Romania Gender:	Re: Maximum recommended requirements Reply #12 - 30.12.08 at 15:42:51 It should work fine. Anyway, it would be very nice it you could put a fan to blow under the V1 card, they tend to get really hot on "fast" machines (and P3 is fast for V1).
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skinniezinho YaBB Newbies Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 6 Portugal Gender:	Re: Maximum recommended requirements Reply #13 - 04.01.09 at 17:33:48 Another good board was msi 6163 pro..a friend of mine had one,and it was very cool..
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Narmounet Junior Member Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 85 France / Blois Gender:	Re: Maximum recommended requirements Reply #14 - 17.01.09 at 11:54:37 For the fun I used my V1 on a X2 4200+ based system without problem But my 3dfx ring is based on a PII800EB, hoping to move to a Tualatin in few week.
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