It was another really popular cheapo card. It was one of the first chips to bring the top end features to the bottom. Whether the features were worthless or not doesn't matter to the OEMs or even many upgrade customers apparently. You can see the same thing today with the low-end DX10 and 11 cards …

Yes I'm aware of the agp voltage issue, I meant is there a point at which you start to have problems using voodoo PCI cards, whether v2 v3 or v5. Or is it safe to assume 3dfx pci cards will run in any pci board? It was the reference to overheating that worried me.

ok thanks, shan't bother getting that overdrive out then.

many thanks keropi

Hehe, well that would be going a bit extreme but it does remind me you could set XP to look like 2000.

I've been wondering whether to buy an Amiga - I missed out first time round, having had a CPC464 at home and then moved on to IBM PCs at work. The most common and cheapest models seem to be the 500, 600 and 1200. What I can't work out is what's the best one to start with. The 600 seems a bit narrow …

Is there any way to streamline Windows 7 to reduce the eye candy? Been googling for all I find is stuff about defragging and swap files. A decent link would be fine.

I tried a Voodoo Rush in a 486 board, t see if I could run glquake. It's hopeless - at 640x480 it's far too jerky, though it looks ok. At 512 conwidth I get only a few colours like magenta [and no brown - OMG!!!], though the speed is OK from what little I can see. I didn't try a voodoo 1 but I doubt …

Besides the AGP voltage issue, and whether later Os have the necessary drivers, are there any other reasons why you could get problems putting Voodoo cards in later systems? I saw on falconfly.de there might be overheating problems with Athlon XPs, but it looks like some people run these bits of …