Hi,

Well Athlon XP's are getting awfully cheap lately, so am seriously considering this route for my Glide box, using an AGP Voodoo 5500.

I'm aware that many (if not most) mobo's are no longer compatible with the AGP 1.0 standard that the Voodoo 5 uses.

Could I have some recommendations for a decent mobo that will support a Barton or Thoroughbred cored processor.

Cheers

Andy

Hm, the KT333a-Boards should all be backwards compatible.

I ran my Voodoo5 5500 AGP on an ASUS A7V-333, and it worked just fine.

Max CPU's :
A7V-333 Rev 1.0x : AthlonXP 2400+
(actually 2600+, but the FSB266 variant of that CPU is very rare, and existed only for a short period of time)

A7V-333 Rev 2.x : AthlonXP 3000+

A7V-333X before Rev 2.01 : AthlonXP 2400+ (and 2600+ 266FSB variant)
A7V-333X Rev 2.01 : AthlonXP 3000+

So for most Manufacturers and the KT333a, 266FSB CPU's should work upto 2400+, some newer Revisions upto 3000+ ... You'll have to check for yourself for non-ASUS Boards...

Right now my voodoo5 is on a ASrock K7VT2  (ASrock is a low-end brand of asus) with a crappy duron 700

This is a really cheap motherboard ( ~ 55 euros), based on the KT266A (with KT333's southbridge)

two SDR + two DDR slots

USB 2.0,   100 megabits lan, stereo sound

it will support thoroughbred up to XP 2400+ (266FSB)

but XP2400+ should be fine with a voodoo5?  :D

Hmmm, thanks for the response.

ASrock K7VT2 = £39.99p   :D


Can get an Athlon 2400 for about £60-65.

Plus need some better memory- say £30-50

Hmmm, not too bad.

Mind you, will that spec of processor be a little over the top for a Voodoo 5500?

I like to run at 1024x760 resolution  with 2 x FSAA, so maybe the card will be fillrate limited?

Andy

Yep, the Card will definitely be limited, either Fillrate-, or Geometry-wise (for Games that use alot of Geometry usually handled by T&L).

But even in latter Case, the CPU helps alot ;)

Well i just got my EP 8kha+ mobo running last night, its running the 2500 barton at 333 w/ the 512, took  me a bit but now it is also seeing the mem as pc2700.

I download the lastest bios which stated it could read up to the 2600xp, plus the latest 4 and 1 drivers, before this i got the cpu unknown when booting up, i ran the bmx 4.0 test so far and im gonna try the mad onion next to see if this is stable,    im running a g3 right now but im going to falconflys driver downloads and am gonna put in my new modded v5500.

on EP site they have mobo's with the universal apg with the 333 ship set, with there new bios they can run the newer barton cpu's, and i bet there fairly cheap since there older boards,  cheers ;D

Hey patience check this out, i ran my gforce3 on that mobo and i ran a test called benchmarkx opengl and got a score of 61, now i just ran my v5500 at stock settings and got a score of 241  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D take that nvidia  :P

I got it off of the disk that comes with my maximumpc magazine, ill find it for you on the net  ;)http://www.stahuj.cz/utility_a_ostatni/benchmarky_a_testy/bmx/
i cant read this, can you?
http://www.windowspc.com/start.pl?page=/system/BenchMarX.htm
this one is in english  ::)

wrote on 08.06.03 at 17:55:48:

about the Asus A7V 333X, i ask me if this card is using a "limited" version of the KT333 (the version CF) which supports only the Agp 1.5 v

If you want to mean "Je me demande si",  you'd better say "I  wonder if"    ;D  ;)

[url][/url]http://members.tripod.com/nightstormer/voodoo/133fsbCPUFSAA.gif



This shows that the Voodoo 5500 is fillrate limited at 1024x760 with 2 x FSAA with just an 800mhz processor.

Hmmm!

IMHO, benchmark numbers don't count for much in the real world, they can be fiddled and jigged around to favour one card or another.
:-/
It's how well a card plays a game and what it looks like on screen that counts.

For image quality, 3DFX's FSAA technique is a tough one to beat.
:D
At the end of the day I'm looking for a stable system that will wring every last ounce (gram-lol) of performance from the Voodoo 5500 card.

Not really looking for a sledge hammer to crack a walnut! ;)

Cheers

Andy

You are right patience, for 2001se there are 5 of the test that dont run, its just for fun thou, is use it to see how a cpu might be helping the old voodoo out  ::)

Hi whodovoodoo2man (hope i got that right)
I have test my v4500 with tbird 1200,1800xp,2500barton and each time i get higher frame rates in 2001se, so i guess the cpu has to be helping even if the voodoo is topped out, at least it seems that way ::)