Yes, the difference will be that the V3 is another primary video adapter and you'll have to switch between the two cards in the BIOS.

I have a Matrox Millenium II coupled with two Voodoo 2's in SLI confguration and a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP in my PIII system. All works peacefully together, even giving me the benefit of a two display setup in w98 and XP. (fiddling with BIOS everytime you need to change the primary is a given, though)

I'd skip VooDoo 3. It was a nice Glide card, but for D3D Nvidia trounced them completely. In my retro rig I use the Combo of an AGP Nvidia GeForce 4000 MX, with Dual VooDoo 2s. I find that combo gives me the best range of games to play on that PIII 700 system.

I went with the 4000 MX since it was fanless. It had plenty of enough performance for the games of that era, while being silent, and still having Win98 drivers.

With Voodoo3 you:
1) Have the better speed, resolutions etc with GlideAPI. Plus good dx6 videocard for old d3d games.
2) Can not run statically linked glide games (5 games) and Glide 2.1.1 games (4 games).
3) You need KVM switch or multi-input monitor, because Voodoo3 is the full videocard, not the pass-through device.
The choice is yours.

laxdragon wrote:

I'd skip VooDoo 3. It was a nice Glide card, but for D3D Nvidia trounced them completely. In my retro rig I use the Combo of an AGP Nvidia GeForce 4000 MX, with Dual VooDoo 2s. I find that combo gives me the best range of games to play on that PIII 700 system.

I went with the 4000 MX since it was fanless. It had plenty of enough performance for the games of that era, while being silent, and still having Win98 drivers.

I use a fanless Asus Geforce 4 MX440 with my old PIII 850 system and it outperforms ANY 3dfx Voodoo card by quite a large margin (especially when it comes to 32-bit colour, FSAA and Anisotropic filtering). I'll just stick with a pair of Voodoo 2s for those older Glide games... Most games have OpenGL or D3D as an alternative to Glide anyway 😉.

If i had to choose a 3dfx card to use on it's own (for 2D/3D), then i'd get a Voodoo 4 or 5 as they're both better than a Voodoo 3 (faster, more memory, larger textures, 32-bit colour and FSAA).