DO NOT ! There are minor performance differences between AGP and PCI Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3/4/5 boards (same Make, same Model)

If you wanna change your RAM timings, visit this homepage
http://wave.prohosting.com/~pa3pyx/voodoo3.html

Visit homepage of tdfx bios editor
http://www.donapex.net/~fin/tdfx/russian/index.htm

Here you'll find BIOSes
http://www.donapex.net/~fin/russian/download/bioses.htm

Here you'll find tdfx BIOS editor
http://www.donapex.net/~fin/files/bios/tdfx_bios_editor.rar
or
http://download.overclockers.ru/video/bios/tdfxbioseditor1.61.rar

Best regards

Well, the system I'm planning is:

Motherboard: ABit VP6
CPUs: Dual Pentium 3 866
Audio: Aureal Vortex 2 8830-based

I still have to get the sound board from eBay. I'm getting the motherboard and CPUs from a friend next week for $150.

It turns out the motherboard _does_ support 3.3V AGP, but if there really is next to no performance increase, I'll just stick with the PCI variant.

What do y'all think about this?

Hmm, what i thought was interesting on that one test between the 2 cards was that it was kept to q3 & unreal test, and in unreal the agp was just starting to pull away alittle. Ive tested my agp4500, pci5500 and agp5500 against each other and the agp5500 was clearly ahead in the 2001se test which puts alittle more strain on the cards, i got about a 15% gain with my agp over my pci, now it might have just been my cards, im not sure, Patience has the 2 cards i think, maybe she could run the same test to see what she gets (p.s. id love to see your 5000 test too if you ever get the spare time )

I did a lot or reading about the next generation hardware -- it certinaly would've kicked ass!

You'd think, since the ex - CEO of 3Dfx is working for a corporation that is very well off and is the president, you'd think he'd buy back the rights/property/assets,etc. of 3Dfx, hire back the old team and give it one last try.

Won't happen, but it goes to show how much I really miss them, sure there are some sweet video cards out there by ATI/Nvidia, but they don't have/won't ever have what 3Dfx had. 

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AGP hasn't ever lived up to what it was supposed to be, the nice thing I like about it is the fact that it is on its own bus (not sharing resources) and can directly access main memory.

But it hasn't ever used the bandwidth/speed of its own bus architechture correctly, even 8x still -- they thought maybe withthat we'll see better performance --- nope, not getting the hundres(s) or so of gigabytes/second as promised.

With the AGP cards that are loaded w/128-256MB, they don't even get to the point where they actually use all of that - maybe half, more if you are lucky. I mean what game is going to need *that* much framebuffer?

Maybe this is why 3Dfx had 2 chips and allocated each chip it own 32MB, that way --- it got used!

There is supposed to be a new PCI architechture coming out that will make it compete w/AGP. So far as I am concerned, you can make the same card PCI, and I would buy it.

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