A V3 AGP is still common and dirt cheap, I'd go with one of those.

I second that and the demand for them is low so there is very little competition. The cooling isn't great so a little fan will go a long way, the V3 3K has the better stock cooler and is clocked higher than the 2K that has the tiny cooler.

Searching our local "ebay" site I was able to find two AGP cards, a 3dfx banshee 16 MB and a voodoo 3 2000 16 MB, wich one should I get? The price is the same, around 10 eur.

Get the Voodoo 3 2000.

The Banshee is also a good card but not as fast.

Not that it matters with a 233 mhz CPU but in case you get something faster in the future.
Your Intel LX board would probably accept Coppermine Celerons 533 - 766 mhz using a FC-PGA Slotket.

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Get the Voodoo 3 2000.

The Banshee is also a good card but not as fast.

Not that it matters with a 233 mhz CPU but in case you get something faster in the future.
Your Intel LX board would probably accept Coppermine Celerons 533 - 766 mhz using a FC-PGA Slotket.

For what I read here http://texas-micro.industrialpartner.com/sing … oards/ti6nl.htm, pentium 2 333 MHz is the maximum this motherboard supports. And I do have a pentium 3 with a ASUS CUSL2 motherboard if I ever need something faster : )
I will try to get the Voodoo 3.

Intel Mendocino Celerons 300 - 533 MHz should work? if the Coppermine ones will not.
A 466 - 533 mhz Celeron is good match for a Voodoo 3 if you ever feel the need for more speed.

If you have some sort of 3DFX Card in your FC-PGA Pentium 3 you could of course use that system for games that use glide and need more power (Unreal).
But if this Pentium 2 system will be your only system with a Voodoo card then upgrading the CPU is a good idea.

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Intel Mendocino Celerons 300 - 533 MHz should work? if the Coppermine ones will not.
A 466 - 533 mhz Celeron is good match for a Voodoo 3 if you ever feel the need for more speed.

If you have some sort of 3DFX Card in your FC-PGA Pentium 3 you could of course use that system for games that use glide and need more power (Unreal).
But if this Pentium 2 system will be your only system with a Voodoo card then upgrading the CPU is a good idea.

Yes, this will be my Voodoo machine, on the pentium 3 I will user my old geforce annihilator pro. I will look around and see if I can find a cheap celeron to try.

I received the AGP Voodoo card (my first 3dfx card ever!), a pentium 2 300 MHz and got evrything to work.
Half-Life works great at 800x600 😀

Did you try any older dos games with this setup?? I have a similar voodoo 3 card and i am considering using it in my PII rig as well. I dont really want to play quake 2 or half life with it (i have a P4 for that), but i am hoping to run 'newish' glide games and some 90's dos games that run good on a faster machine (some flight sims and maybe some later cd rom adventure games like phantasmagoria).

I just tried Half Life.

Other than those games, any other that you want me to try? I don't have phantasmagoria or any flight sim :\

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I just tried Half Life.

Other than those games, any other that you want me to try? I don't have phantasmagoria or any flight sim :\

Can you try any sierra games by any chance? Maybe some older adventure games (not too old though)? Kings Quest 6, Space Quest 6 or maybe lucasarts games like tie fighter? Also, Carmaggedon?

I know it may not be appropriate for your system and a vooodoo3, but I'm curious how some older games might run.

Carmageddon and GTA run perfectly on the Voodoo3. Actually just about everything does.

Edit:
also see this: http://gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS/
You'll find that the V3 is one of the fastest and most compatible cards around for DOS.

Thanks...Good to know Carmageddon works....

Ya I've seen that chart before, but I didn't notice that the Voodoo3 was listed in there...I used it to compare my S3 cards to see which were most compatible with older games.

Funny that Voodoo3's aren't more pricey considering it's DOS compatibility...I picked mine up for about $12 from Ebay a year ago.

They are getting a bit harder to find though.

I almost tossed a Quantum Big Foot 6GB drive last month!!! Don't know why I kept it, but I still have it. I DID toss the 12BG Bigfoot I had 'cause it was near death.

This board is getting me depressed thinking about all the stuff I've tossed out recently.

Anywho, have you ever thought of tracking down a Quantum 3D Obsidian S12? I have one in storage across the country (I have a lot of old stuff in storage... Been meaning to send for it all at some point).

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Funny that Voodoo3's aren't more pricey considering it's DOS compatibility...I picked mine up for about $12 from Ebay a year ago.

V3 2000 and 3000 AGP cards are still considered common. They are probably the best value in 3DFX cards at the moment along with the Banshee. The PCI cards are a bit hard to find because at the time the V3 came out, AGP was pushing PCI out of the mainstream video card market so not many people were still buying PCI cards then. They had mostly migrated to AGP so that's where the video card makers focused their efforts. They might have sold some of their older, slower technology on PCI but usually not their top of the line parts.