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ATC‑6150 mainboard and voodoo 1?

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First post, by retep_110

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A Atech ATC-6150 board in working oder falls into my hands for almost nothing. I am uncertain at the moment if I will just keep it for collectors purposes if I will bring it back to life with a Voodoo 1 card. . I already have V4 ystem before that I had a v3 system but getting a system running the original voodoo is on my wishlist for quite some time.

Would the 440ex boad from Atech be a good partner for V1 card or would you say the pentium II cpu range is too fast for the v1? Due to the 66mhz fsb nature of the board the choice of pentium 2 is limited is anyway. I can only go up as fast 333mhz. The p2 333 mhz was the last 66mhz frontside bus pentium if I am not mistaking?

Which p2 would you consider as the sweet spot for a v1 for 1996 to early 1998 games in windows 98se and some late does games?

Reply 1 of 4, by PD2JK

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The slowest Pentium II at 233 MHz fast enough, sure you can go faster, but only few games will profit from a faster processor.

Mind that the Voodoo Graphics came out in the Pentium 133-200 era.

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Reply 2 of 4, by retep_110

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PD2JK wrote on 2026-07-23, 06:14:

The slowest Pentium II at 233 MHz fast enough, sure you can go faster, but only few games will profit from a faster processor.

Mind that the Voodoo Graphics came out in the Pentium 133-200 era.

Thanks für the reply. Yes i am aware that V1 came out in the first pentium era and that some faster PII might be already too fast. Getting a 233 mhz or 266mhz PII seems the most sane choice to me.

Reply 3 of 4, by Thandor

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PD2JK wrote on 2026-07-23, 06:14:

Mind that the Voodoo Graphics came out in the Pentium 133-200 era.

The Voodoo launched in 1996 so yes, back then a Pentium 133 was new. However, it took a year before the Voodoo was adopted (and to became affordable) so it really shoots into P200MMX-era. Personally I think it’s pointless to run a Voodoo in anything slower than a P200MMX. It’s going to be a constant fight with games that are bound to be slow.

So yeah, indeed a Pentium II 233/266 will do just find or perhaps look into getting a Celeron 300A. Too fast is not going to be an issue with your motherboard. A Pentium II 333 will run beautiful, too!

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Reply 4 of 4, by retep_110

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Thandor wrote on 2026-07-24, 07:01:
PD2JK wrote on 2026-07-23, 06:14:

Mind that the Voodoo Graphics came out in the Pentium 133-200 era.

The Voodoo launched in 1996 so yes, back then a Pentium 133 was new. However, it took a year before the Voodoo was adopted (and to became affordable) so it really shoots into P200MMX-era. Personally I think it’s pointless to run a Voodoo in anything slower than a P200MMX. It’s going to be a constant fight with games that are bound to be slow.

So yeah, indeed a Pentium II 233/266 will do just find or perhaps look into getting a Celeron 300A. Too fast is not going to be an issue with your motherboard. A Pentium II 333 will run beautiful, too!

Thanks for mentioning the Celaron300A. Another good option especially for the overclockers. I am not into overclocking yet but I might be intersted in learning it at some point in the future. It is also valuable information that going too fast would not be an issue with my mobo. It would be tempting somehow to get one last of kind cpu. Maybe it would not make much a difference when using the last 66mhz fsb p2 but it would be cool from tech enthusiasts point of view.

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