Hello,

I just finished putting my old PC back together again and would like to use it as a 'Retro' rig mostly for my old flight Sims such as Longbow2 and Hind. I would also like to play some of the earlier games that i missed out on the first time round.

The PC consists of the following Hardware:

Gigabyte GA-6BXC Mobo
P3 - 550mhz
256 MB Ram
Voodoo 5
Creative SoundBlaster Live!
13 Gig HDD.

Also, i have just acquired a couple of identical Creative Voodoo 2’s that i want to run in SLI mode. So, my question is - is it worth rigging up the V2's to run along side the V5? From what i can gather this would most probably be a waste of time as the V5 is already SLI enabled, right?

Any thoughts, comments and advice will be very much appreciated.

TIA

Tommy

@Tommy,

NitroX infinity is correct in stating that the cpu will be the bottleneck in your setup, but hey thats what you have to work with.

Easy choosing the Voodoo 5 here :

1.  higher fillrate (with a beefier cpu).
2.  32 bit color support.
3.  2048 X 2048 texture support.
4. 2 or 4 sample FSAA hardware support.
5.  64 mb of memory divided by 2 gpu's = 32 mb in reality.
6.  350 mhz ramdac = great 2d image quality.
7.  3dfx post filters for good looking 16 bit color in games.
8.  texture compression support.

Voodoo 2 might be a bit more compatable with some older games, but besides that I can't think of any other reason to choose it over the Voodoo5's advanced features.

This set-up will work very well with the games you have mentioned and many more