The extremely few games that had issues you could just set affinity to one cpu. It's really not a concern that would prevent you from playing them. You'll run into old DOS games (Just use DOSBox) and a few Windows games having issues due to cpu speed more than having an issue with dual processors.

I just noticed it’s a 1.5v AGP slot even though it’s an AGP pro one. So it’s a no go with a Voodoo! I don’t remember the early 2000s being such an AGP nightmare.

If you wanna pair a V3 with a dual CPU board and Xeon isn't a must, something w/ a AGP4x universal interface should work. VIA chipsets were the most popular in that regard - 694D (aka 694X w/SMP support) is one of them.

There's the 815 chipset as well but apart from one Acorp board, I don't think I've seen any other 815 based dualCPU board. 694D however, there's quite a few boards with it - ABIT VP6 and MSI 694D Pro-AR are a few I seem to recall being popular, and I even own the latter w/ 2x Coppermine 1000EB.

Linoleum wrote on 2024-01-24, 11:06:

I don’t remember the early 2000s being such an AGP nightmare.

I think graphic cards and systems were evolving so quickly that it... didn't really matter. No one was thinking of reusing a 3 year old graphics card... this is an era when a $50 GF4 MX was better or equivalent to a GeForce 2 GTS from... less than two years before.

VivienM wrote on 2024-01-24, 22:53:

Linoleum wrote on 2024-01-24, 11:06:

I don’t remember the early 2000s being such an AGP nightmare.

I think graphic cards and systems were evolving so quickly that it... didn't really matter. No one was thinking of reusing a 3 year old graphics card... this is an era when a $50 GF4 MX was better or equivalent to a GeForce 2 GTS from... less than two years before.

You're right.. I now remember swapping GPUs every 10 months or so during that period. GPUs were so much cheaper back then, but they were obsolete so quickly!