First post, by Limpem
Hey Everyone,
I have a question to which I couldn't find the answer (unless my searching skills fail me).
I want to know what the fastest cpu is to pair with a voodoo 1 and maintain full dos compatibility.
The known limits I could find:
-Above 400 Mhz some games start to have glitches, but to what I could find, this only concerns some directx titles.
-Voodoo 1 cards don't like cpu's with a 133 Mhz FSB
-When the cpu is too fast, old dos glide games can have trouble detecting the gpu <-- I couldn't find the exact limits anywhere
So in order to find those limits I started testing with a BX440 system with the cpu's (also have a slot-t adapter) I had at home.
Games I used for testing:
- Battle Arena Toshinden
- Carmageddon
- Descent II
- Dreams To Reality
- Extreme Assault
- Fatal Racing
- Grand Theft Auto
- Lands Of Lore II
- Nascar Racing 2
- Prost Grand Prix
- Screamer 2
- Shadow Warrior
- Starfighter 3000
- Tomb Raider
Here are the results of my tests with the cpu's I had at hand:
I think the 1133s Tualatin is the fastest cpu that still works when running at a 100 Mhz FSB.
Starfighter 3000 sometimes had problems detecting the voodoo1 with that cpu installed, but if that happened, a simple reboot would make the game detect the voodoo1 almost every time.
I think the issue is more related to the actual clockspeed rather than performance since the 1133s performs at 850Mhz very similar to a celeron tualatin at 1000 Mhz due to the larger L2 cache.
But because of the problems starting at this speed I think going one step up (1266s or 900 mhz coppermine) will immediately impact compatibility
Since I don't have any other cpu's to test, I am curious if someone was able to get the voodoo 1 detected by dos glide games with even faster cpu's (and if so, what chipset and cpu were you using at which speeds).
I am specifically not looking for well meant advise as: "why would you want to pair a cpu that fast with a voodoo1" or "anything above 400 Mhz is overkill for a voodoo 1"
Just curious to find out what the upper limit is in terms of detectability
430HX/P1 233MMX/64MB/S3VirgeDX,Voodoo1SLI(King Shaman)/AWE32
440BX/CelTualatin1400/512MB/Banshee, PowerVR PCX2/AWE64Gold
645DX/P4Northwood 3,5Ghz(Oc)/512MB/Voodoo5500/Vortex2
875P/P4EE 3,4Ghz/1GB/GeforceFX5950/Audigy2ZS
Z97/i3-4370/16GB/GeforceGTX960/X-Fi