a Voodoo 1 on a Super socket 7 with a K6-2 380MHz cpu \ VOGONS

a Voodoo 1 on a Super socket 7 with a K6-2 380MHz cpu

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First post, by AvocadoLongfall

Posted on 2025-03-06, 00:13

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Greetings everyone, I went and bought an IBM Aptivia 2158-301 PC and am curious about if a Voodoo 1 4 megabytes of Vram will work OK with such a CPU and FSB of 95MHz to 100MHz. I heard above 100MHz has issues but below that is ok. Plus I heard that a K6-2 380MHz is fairly slower than a PII if that is correct.

Reply 1 of 2, by rmay635703

Posted on 2025-03-06, 02:17

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voodoo1 CAN give some problems/corruption on systems around p2-400 and higher. On a lot of systems it runs fine with most software, even with much higher cpu's. I have heard of folks who could not get a voodoo1 working on a Tusl2-c with 1400mhz P3-S .
The k6-2 is not fast enough to cause any problems, some issues might come from a high fsb (on Intel systems) . A 400mhz k6-2 is a good cpu to nearly maxxout the voodoo1 (it take a p2-350 to do that and yes, that's a fair bit faster than a k6-2).

Reply 2 of 2, by AvocadoLongfall

Posted on 2025-03-06, 05:45

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That is absolutely reassuring to know. Thank you kindly. It will be faster than a Pentium MMX 233, yes but not as fast as a PII.

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