I have not tried P4 with Voodoo5 but I don't think either config is especially better or worse. It's just nice in general to get up to that 2002 level of CPU perfomance for especially Unreal Engine games which can get quite demanding if a lot of action is on screen.

Does your 8KHA+ have bad caps? I've been watching for one of those boards on eBay and they all seem to have bulging caps.

Depends if it's AGP or PCI. If it's AGP you will have a hard time finding a good home for a AGP2X card in a P4 motherboard....

Just make sure the AGP port supports the 3.3V requirement of the V5. Unless you're using a PCI card.

Like swaaye points out, it shouldn't matter much, as the V5 doesn't really need extra performance beyond a decent Pentium III. Especially at 1024 x 768 and higher.

AMD 760 and SiS 645 should be good to go for 3.3v AGP.

this: http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=459

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swaaye wrote:

I have not tried P4 with Voodoo5 but I don't think either config is especially better or worse. It's just nice in general to get up to that 2002 level of CPU perfomance for especially Unreal Engine games which can get quite demanding if a lot of action is on screen.

Does your 8KHA+ have bad caps? I've been watching for one of those boards on eBay and they all seem to have bulging caps.

actually its the Soyo that needs a few caps replaced, the Epox is fine. The Voodoo card is an AGP onebut the P4 board has a universal AGP slot

Well, more CPU power is better in most cases, but an Athlon XP would more than max out a Voodoo 5 anyway. So the Pee4 would be overkill and then some. If I was building this I'd go with the Athlon build and do something different with the other.

I wouldn't call Pee4 overkill 😀

Since the p4 uses a sis chipset i prefer the athlon. It will max out the voodoo5 anyway.

To me, the Dragon looks like having some advantages.

- You can fit more modules, which I don't know if it can take more or lesser memory size in total.
- You can do some better cable management because of the way the layout is made.
- The Epox does not have any 4-Pin (P4 plug) for powering the CPU, hence worse chance of finding decent PSU's
(something people are pointing out in recent post's here on VOGONS)

If both motherboards can take the same amount of RAM. Then for me, the Dragon is a clear winner.
And you will probably have more luck, finding a decent cooler too.

My biggest complaint with the SiS chipset is that the IDE controller onboard is really slow. If your motherboard has the integrated Highpoint RAID controller I recommend using that or using a pci Promise ata133 card. If your Dragon is like mine it should have a universal AGP Pro slot, able to use any AGP card ever made.