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First post, by Joakim

Posted on 2022-04-24, 16:37

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I have the feeling I have read something about this already, but I can't seem to find the information.

My pentium 2 rig gave up on me the other week and I was wondering it is a bad idea to put the voodoo 2 in my much later pentium 4 era rig? If I rememeber correctly its the Asus P4P800-E @400 mhz (it has an asus ct479 so its running a pentium m for the lolz).

I thoght I'd ask before I see smoke from the voodoo card that is not cooled by any means.

I also have an idea to make the pentium m my main retro rig even for pre 2000 games (speed sensitive stuff run elsewhere).

Reply 1 of 10, by havli

Posted on 2022-04-24, 17:34

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There is no problem running Voodoo2 on P4P800. But you really should consider some cooling fan. V2 tends to run hot and even more so in fast PC.

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Reply 2 of 10, by The Serpent Rider

Posted on 2022-04-24, 17:39

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I've ran Voodoo 2 SLI on Athlon64. No problem, just need to cool it properly.

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Reply 3 of 10, by Baoran

Posted on 2022-04-24, 18:03

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For my voodoo 2 sli setup I just had to install one case fan to front of the case to blow directly towards the 2 voodoo 2 cards and the chips dont even feel hot to touch anymore when playing games.

Reply 4 of 10, by Joakim

Posted on 2022-04-24, 20:42

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Ok is clock frequency somehow syncing with the faster computer?

I don't really like the idea of overclocking old hardware. Can I maybe downclock it again to normal speed?

Yeah I guess I should add a fan or maybe some heatsinks to it.

Would be nice to connect a temperature sensor too.

Reply 5 of 10, by Cuttoon

Posted on 2022-04-24, 20:55

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Joakim wrote on 2022-04-24, 20:42:
Ok is clock frequency somehow syncing with the faster computer? […]
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Ok is clock frequency somehow syncing with the faster computer?

I don't really like the idea of overclocking old hardware. Can I maybe downclock it again to normal speed?

Yeah I guess I should add a fan or maybe some heatsinks to it.

Would be nice to connect a temperature sensor too.

PCI speed is up to you, it's a bios option.
Normal PCI has 33 MHz and "Auto" should do the very same.

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Reply 6 of 10, by cyclone3d

Posted on 2022-04-24, 21:27

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Running an old card in a newer computer will not overclock the card.

The only reason it would run hotter in a faster computer would be because the faster computer is are to push more data to the card... aka, you won't be CPU or RAM throughput limited.

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Reply 7 of 10, by chrismeyer6

Posted on 2022-04-24, 21:29

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Joakim wrote on 2022-04-24, 20:42:
Ok is clock frequency somehow syncing with the faster computer? […]
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Ok is clock frequency somehow syncing with the faster computer?

I don't really like the idea of overclocking old hardware. Can I maybe downclock it again to normal speed?

Yeah I guess I should add a fan or maybe some heatsinks to it.

Would be nice to connect a temperature sensor too.

The cards aren't being overclocked on faster systems is that you've completely eliminated and CPU bottleneck that you would of had in systems of its day. They run warmer because they aren't having to wait on the cpu to feed them data and are being fully utilized.

Reply 8 of 10, by BitWrangler

Posted on 2022-04-24, 22:34

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They're also sitting on a 25W radiator running a 70W radiator instead of a 10W radiator running a 30W radiator also, so about twice the heat booting around in the same box with them to start.

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Reply 9 of 10, by Joakim

Posted on 2022-04-25, 18:15

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OK, good then I had the wrong idea.

Thanks for the replies, guys.

Reply 10 of 10, by cyclone3d

Posted on 2022-04-25, 20:58

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BitWrangler wrote on 2022-04-24, 22:34:

They're also sitting on a 25W radiator running a 70W radiator instead of a 10W radiator running a 30W radiator also, so about twice the heat booting around in the same box with them to start.

Not if there is adequate case airflow.

Ideally, no matter the system, the case air temps will only be 2-3C higher than ambient air temps.

Not at all hard to accomplish.

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