First post, by obobskivich
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Like the title - has anyone tried it, had success or failure with it, or otherwise have an opinion about it?
I'm waiting on what should be a proper mate for my 12MB V2, and I've been thinking about putting them in a Windows XP box since I can't honestly come up with a serious need for them to support Direct3D nor have any of my handful of Glide games given me trouble in XP in the past. So it seemed like it may be a more reasonable idea to consolidate everything together, and just have Glide support as another option on that one box.
I've had good luck with the V2 in Win2k, but haven't tried XP with it. It seems like XP runs better on my "prime candidate machine" (Asus PC-DL Deluxe with dual Xeon 3.06GHz) - when I've tried 2k it just isn't as responsive. I think it's the lack of HyperThreading support (I didn't investigate things too thoroughly though, so if anyone has an opinion on that, I'd also welcome it).
A somewhat related question: I've read of the Voodoo2 getting "hot" with faster CPUs, but how significant of a problem is this for a case with good airflow, and exactly how fast of a CPU is a bad idea?
And note that I'm not really opposed to putting them in a Win98 machine - that's where the single V2 has been for a while now. I just rarely ever boot up 9x boxes, and was thinking it would be nice to consolidate everything into the single XP system.