SquallStrife wrote:

I can get a Voodoo3 3000 fairly cheaply, would I see a big difference over what I've got now in Glide titles like Deus Ex?

See the benchmark. Voodoo3 is quite faster than Voodoo2 SLI, and it also has 1600x1200 resolution --which Voodoo2 cannot reach. However, you may want to keep your Voodoo2 though, since there are GLide games incompatible with Voodoo3 and above. You can switch between V2 and V3 by putting a specific version glide2x.dll (or glide2x.ovl, in case of DOS games) in your game's folder.

SquallStrife wrote:

Is there any other glaring problem with the above setup?

I don't think so. How many ISA slots does the mobo have, by the way?

Thanks. The V3 I'm looking at on ebay would cost me around $20 delivered, so might be worth a look, knowing that glide DLL trick exists.

This particular mobo has a single ISA slot on it, occupied by my SB16.

Thanks for the reply! 😀

SquallStrife wrote:

Thanks. The V3 I'm looking at on ebay would cost me around $20 delivered

Hell, thats insane. Here I usually pay one euro plus postage.

ux-3 wrote:

SquallStrife wrote:

Thanks. The V3 I'm looking at on ebay would cost me around $20 delivered

Hell, thats insane. Here I usually pay one euro plus postage.

Ebay USA is a larger market than ebay in other countries. Prices go higher here. That's why they sell 486 motherboards for $200 and up here.

sliderider wrote:

Ebay USA is a larger market than ebay in other countries. Prices go higher here. That's why they sell 486 motherboards for $200 and up here.

People in the US literally get bent over and violated when it comes to prices on old PC hardware. I also find Swedish sellers can also be a bit optimistic with their prices.

Ebay is only good if you know what your looking for and know the items real value... I've seen all sorts of garbage being sold for stupidly high amounts to equally stupid people 😒

Here in the UK you can easily pick up a V3 3000 (and other old hardware) for 99p + postage (or even free if you know where to look 😀).

But of course there will always be some old desirable stuff that will sell for more no matter where in the world you are!

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

See the benchmark. Voodoo3 is quite faster than Voodoo2 SLI,

That benchmark is using a V3 3500... i'm sure they are clocked at 183mhz compared to 166mhz for a V3 3000. If a V3 3000 was used then the results would only be marginally better than a V2 SLI setup.

Cheers for the advice guys.

I'm in Australia, so I get reamed for postage no matter where I order from. I've seen V3s for less than a fiver, but the postage will be like 15 aussie bucks.

There is one listed locally, $10 buyout, $9.95 postage. I'll end up paying that in postage if I ordered from overseas, but this one will arrive sooner. Rock and a hard place eh?

Powerpie, I only have a single Voodoo 2, so the V3 would be a step up for games that support it right?

SquallStrife wrote:

Powerpie, I only have a single Voodoo 2, so the V3 would be a step up for games that support it right?

Yup 😉

SquallStrife wrote:

Powerpie, I only have a single Voodoo 2, so the V3 would be a step up for games that support it right?

Definitely 😀

Alright, I've put a bid on this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI … em=180547791099

$5 plus $8 postage. Now to play the waiting game...

Cheers for the advice guys, I appreciate it.