Hi there, I'm new to the forums but have spent some considerable time having a look through them.

So now onto the topic:

I was talking to someone about running my Voodoo 2 SLI cards on a 1.33GHz Athlon, to which they strongly recommended not doing so as it wouldn't work. Apparently Voodoo 1 and 2 cards are speed sensitive and tend to lock up with processors that run beyond 1.0GHz. I've taken their advice and decided to put the V2's in my 500MHz K6-III rig, an easy decision considering my 'new' Voodoo 5 is due to arrive and I will use that instead.

However (you knew it was coming), I have had a couple of friends who have run V2's on hardware far beyond the 1.0GHz barrier. One ran it with a 1.4GHz Athlon, the other ran an SLI setup on a heavily overclocked Celeron Tualatin at 1.73GHz. Apparently neither experienced lock-ups of any kind, although both suffered dead cards after a while. In the case of the latter, I think his overclocking frenzy was probably the culprit.

So what I want to know is what other people have experienced in terms of running Voodoo 1 and 2 cards in systems that exceed the GHz barrier.

it seems like you can run a voodoo2 on any intel chipset with no problems,ranging from the ancient 440bx up to the latest boards for core2duo cpus.note that nforce chipsets are not compatible,they work very bad (or not at all).

as for via,I have personally tested v2SLI on many chipsets (from kt133 up to kt880),and always had stability problems on anything newer than kt266-the pc would lock up randomly when running a glide/opengl application (with the time of successfull operation ranging from instant lockup after launch up to 12hours of flawless gameplay)..

the latest ati/amd chipsets are untested as far as I know..if I get my hands on such a pc (repairs,new builds for friends/family,I get that a lot ),I'll be sure to check things out..


voodoo1 is even more picky,I was not able to succesfully operate a voodoo1 on anything newer than p3/k6,although some users have reported success with celerons over 1GHz as well..

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On one I was testing had no problems with a Voodoo Graphics running on a BX with a 1.0 Celeron, however when I tried to run the same board on a 1800+ AMD it would hang on the driver install despite numorus attempts.

One of the board members noted that this was a common issue related to CPU speed and we have a thread here somewhere covering it.

On the V2 I'm not 100% postive and will defer to others who have run the boards on faster platforms.

Gary