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First post, by Warlord

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True or False, Is it bad motherboards or flaw in the cards. If its not bad boards then what could possibly cause it. Theres reports of it happening regardless of the PCI bus running at 33mhz and there are proper dividers. Seems its mostly related to Voodoo 1s and Rush. But there was reports of it happening on voodoo 2s as well. Does this effect Voodoo 3s at all since they are perfectly stable at 83mhz AGP bus and 133 FSB. I had quake running fine on V2 SLI at 533 FSB...

Reply 1 of 3, by waterbeesje

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As far as I know, v1 and 2 scale with CPU speed and can't keep up with higher speed stuff. V1 may reach that point beyond Pentium 2 speed and V2 at the fastest Pentium 3 speed. Depends on the card though...

Stuck at 10MHz...

Reply 2 of 3, by Warlord

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Must be card specific my sli diamond monsters worked perfectly on my pentium M build at 533mhz bus 2.4 ghz with last official drivers. My Voodoo 3 worked fine with 83mhz AGP and 133FSB as reported back in the day. My Voodoo 1 worked totally fine at 100mhz FSB but theres been people that said it glitches above 66mhz.

Id be interested in reading about 1st hand accounts of people who've experienced problems.

Reply 3 of 3, by Doornkaat

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Warlord wrote on 2021-08-14, 19:48:

Id be interested in reading about 1st hand accounts of people who've experienced problems.

I recently posted about my worst V1 in another thread:

Doornkaat wrote on 2021-08-07, 17:46:

My Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D will lock up the computer if it runs at more than 66MHz FSB. Tried on several motherboards and chipsets. (Using the correct PCI divider of course!) It's the most speed sensitive card I have. It also got picky about the case I use it in so I stopped using it completely.

The card also got unstable with CPUs around 333MHz iirc.

Other V1 cards I tested are much more stable, especially cards with late production date. I believe the issue with the Guillemot card is linked to PCB design but that's just an unproven hypothesis.