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 …