On the voodoo 2 behaviour, kiwi already answered you in the thread you linked. The Voodoo2 will only be triggered in applications that invoke the glide graphics library. So desktop resolution will not and cannot be affected by a Voodoo 2 - it's purely for accelerating certain types of 3d graphics. …

Greetings, it's me again here with my retarded Compaq box I wanted to give a hardware upgrade. As I said in this thread , I planned to insert the following: 8 RAM modules, 32MB each a Hollywood Plus (hardware decoder) a Voodoo 2 PCI card with 12MB RAM Now it may come as no surprise, but the upgrade …

I know Compaq 4000 motherboards with dimm slots work with MMX cpu's but i am not sure about yours? OK :) Well, if I were to replace the cpu with a better one, I'd prefer one having MMX technology.... If you tell me how to, I can try to find out the details about my motherboard you need to know so …

It just occured to me that you may be better off using a Voodoo 1 based card with your 133mhz CPU - unless you will be upgrading the CPU? Well, I'm not entirely sure yet, as several of such cpu's are still quite expensive on ebay (while sellers who offer one at a lower price are a bit vague as to …

Thats strange... all the Compaq Deskpro 4000's i have worked with don't use 72-pin simms? Even my old one only used dimms and it had a 200w PSU manufactured by Seasonic (or it may have been 250W?) Well, it took me a few days to get myself to verify which specific kind of RAM is installed in this …

I have decided to insert the following parts in my DeskPro: A Voodoo 2 PCI card A Hollywood Plus PCI hardware decoder card 8 sticks of 72-pin SIMM RAM of 32MB each. Maybe with that setup the system would be able to play DVDs (a DVD drive is already installed, together with a regular CD drive). Now I …

What a coincidence!!! I've been looking for such a card for the past few days. Do you ship to Belgium?

Odiseo, the card you linked is a combination of 2D/3D card and does not require a VGA-In. oh on the image I linked to? OK ...... lol Just check a Voodoo2 in comparison You can even see the circuit running and the small IC for switching the signal between VGA In and Voodoo 2 DAC as source for the …

When I suggested a re-read, I specifically had in mind your query about having non-SLI video cards somehow share their VRAM, and that part may have been less clear originally than I intended it to be. OK, well, no problem, I really just assumed that video cards of all kinds could share their RAM, …

Cool, elianda, I'm gonna try that as soon as I get that voodoo2 card (still a week until the end of the auction =( ). I would, however, like to be sure first I know what exactly are the VGA-out and VGA-in ports. http://techreport.com/r.x/ti4600s/pny-verto-side.jpg In this image of some GPU card, the …

Review what I already wrote to you. I've made a few slight changes, in hopes you understand it better. 2D cards differ from 3D cards. They do not add anything anywhere, but the VooDoo and VooDoo2 simply didn't include any 2D functionality. There was an EXTERNAL passthrough cable that connected the …

For DVD Movie playback you need at least a celeron 400 MHz. I read that's the case if you use a software decoder. If you use a hardware decoder, however, even a Compaq Pentium like mine can playback DVD video (according to my sources). I intend to install such decoder card. Maybe a waste of money …

Hi Kiwi. Well, I'll think I'll have to go for a PCI card anyway: I opened up the PC and apparently it doesn't have an AGP slot, only PCI slots. I found an auction for a cheap Voodoo3 on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260465446191&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT Would that one work …

I hate to double-post, but I had a remaining issue. After placing those two extra parts (voodoo3 card and hardware decoder card): which type of system fan should I use to keep this system adequately cooled? How about the power supply? I would be thankful for help!!

Hi all. I know that I'm kind of reviving this thread but as the matter of fact, I'm trying to do kind of the same thing as powerpie was in June. I got this Compaq DeskPro 4000 (133mHz). It has a video card installed: a Cirrus Logic 5446 with 2MB of memory. I would want to know if it is possible to …