Old voodoo vs onboard graphics
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Name: LozUK1972
Date: May 1, 2005 at 04:56:47 Pacific
Subject: Old voodoo vs onboard graphicsOS: winxp proCPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 1800+/512mb dd |
Comment: Hello,
I've got onboard graphis on my mobo which is made by Gigabyte - GA-7VKMP the graphics are S3 graphics prosavage ddr and S3 supersavge ddr. It works great and have had no problems with it but it uses 32mb of my memory reducing it to 480mb. I've had a graphics card sitting in my junk draw for some time now. The only thing I know about it is that its an old voodoo card and has 3dfx on the card itself. Do you think its worth putting this in and using it. My only fear is that it may not work with xp pro or even that its below the standard my onboard graphics give me. Any thoughts or ideas.
Cheers
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Response Number 2
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Name: Paul44
Date: May 1, 2005 at 06:54:12 Pacific
Subject: Old voodoo vs onboard graphics |
Reply: (edit)Win XP has generic drivers for the Voodoo cards, but since 3DFX no longer exists, drivers for XP are third party only. Try here:
http://voodoofiles.com/ I used to use a PCI Voodoo 3 2000 in XP pro, worked fine. It was better than the onbozrd graphics I had, which was TNT2 at the time. GA-7N400L mobo
Barton 2800+ @ 2.23Ghz
1.25GB PC3200
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
SB Audigy 2
Antec Smartpower 400w
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Response Number 3
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Name: SkipCox
Date: May 1, 2005 at 12:27:41 Pacific
Subject: Old voodoo vs onboard graphics |
Reply: (edit)I agree...give it a try. I have a Voodoo3 3000 and a Voodoo3 2000 that run in older machines with no problems. I can think of no reason one of these would not work on a new motherboard. As Paul stated, drivers are available for download and are pretty lightweight. The NT folder on my driver disk is only 7.55Mb. Good luck...great old video card. Skip
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Response Number 4
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Name: cliffpage
Date: May 1, 2005 at 14:08:56 Pacific
Subject: Old voodoo vs onboard graphics |
Reply: (edit)what type of voodoo card is it?
If it is the type that has a male and a female monitor socket on it then it is old and low spec and i bet would not assist you.
If it just has female monitor socket on it , it is likely to be voodoo3 2000 or voodoo 3 3000 (or better) . This is likely to get you much better frame rates in some games but they do not support much in the way of advanced features for 3d effects and there will be modern 3d games for which you just wont be able to get the card to work on.
They were fast cards for their day but not sophisticated
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Response Number 5
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Name: LozUK1972
Date: May 2, 2005 at 09:20:37 Pacific
Subject: Old voodoo vs onboard graphics |
Reply: (edit)Thanks for the advice. I've installed it and it turned out to be a voodoo 3. Now the only problem is, that I thought once it was in, that I would get my 32mb RAM back from the onboard device, but I'm still only showing 480mb RAM. I now it's not alot but I want my 32mb of RAM back. Is this possible??????
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