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Voodoo2 SLI on P4 platform

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First post, by buckeye

Posted on 2017-11-15, 18:50

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Upon finding out that higher end P3 boards/cpus are sold for a mint these days I thought about pairing my V2's with a low level Pentium 4 in the range of 1.6-2.0ghz. Anybody try this combination with success or does it lead to problems with voltage or whatever? The OS is going to be Win98SE.

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Reply 1 of 5, by Jade Falcon

Posted on 2017-11-15, 18:53

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I done this setup a few times before, I never had one problem.
Don't believe the Lies others will tell you about the cards roasting or running hit do to the faster cpu. I have 2 voodoo2 in x58 system even.

Reply 2 of 5, by Captain NA

Posted on 2017-11-15, 20:43

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yes, Voodoo2 pretty mutch run on any 5v PCI slot system, even works in windows 10 systems. Also can't see how a fast CPU will be able to toast the card.

Just fooling around.

Reply 3 of 5, by Bobolaf

Posted on 2017-11-16, 00:41

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As others have said they do work. The Voodoo 2 does actually get warmer if you keep it busy. So it will run hotter on your P4 than on a original Pentium for example. But unless you have some real ventilation issues with your case its nothing to worry about. If your case can take a front mount fan or side mount next to PCI slots its never hurts to add a fan.

Reply 4 of 5, by Jade Falcon

Posted on 2017-11-16, 03:57

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No they dont get hotter with a faster cpu.

Reply 5 of 5, by Gamecollector

Posted on 2017-11-16, 11:56

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P4 3.2E + 865PE + Radeon HD3850 + Voodoo2 SLI + WinXpSp3. Works perfectly except glide 2.1.1 games (both DOS and Win32), can't detect a card because the CPU is too fast.
P4 3.2E + 865PE + Radeon 9100 + Voodoo2 SLI + WinME - works ok if you use 3.02.02 or 3.03.00a drivers. Earlier version fail the detection because of a fast CPU.
Have tested a Voodoo2 SLI with C2D E8400 + Q45 Express + WinXpSp3 setup. The result is similar.

Asus P4P800 SE/Pentium4 3.2E/2 Gb DDR400B,
Radeon HD3850 Agp (Sapphire), Catalyst 14.4 (XpProSp3).
Voodoo2 12 MB SLI, Win2k drivers 1.02.00 (XpProSp3).

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