Hello again.

I know last time I asked about Voodoo 3 and C2D system but now, I got the opposite question. I have a few 486DX motherboards with PCI-2.0 - I was wondering if Voodoo 3 2000 (CPI of course) will work with such motherboards? It would be much better then current S3 Trio VGA.

Thanks in advance and sorry for my English.

I've tried a Voodoo3 once in my 486 system. I don't know the exact specs of the motherboard but the Voodoo3 didn't work.

I had a 486 with a PCI slot I tried running years ago with a Voodoo Graphics, it would wipe out the windows 95 install as soon as the drivers would load and reboot.

Tried three or four times and gave up, same result every time.

I don't think you'll loose anything if you'll try. I know somebody who had a Cyrix 486 DX5 (or something like that) back in 98 and he had a Voodoo Banshee PCI in that computer. I know that Quake 2 ran very well, nobody believed it, because the CPU was slow as hell, but that Banshee was very good back then :)

It should work aside from expected performance issues. If the board is fully functional the card should work fine. As for cooling you can still get small 20mm fans that can mount onto the small passive cooler that can use a 4 pin molex connector for power. I got one such fan that I pulled off a P1 cooler that I used on my v32k and now is cooling the NB on my 790xds4.

Ah well, I believe there is no need for extra cooling. Voodoo 3s are getting really hot during gaming operations but at least I never had any defects.

Thanks for the answers everybody - I tried and... it worked  :) well sort of...

I tried it with the following setup:

Motherboard:
FIC 486-VIP-IO2

CPU:
Am5x86... something (150 Mhz according to the BIOS)

RAM:
32 MB SIMM

And of course a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI

I had to install older drivers because - as far as I know, new versions require some "586" only CPU instructions (I was getting "Windows protection error" at startup), however after downgrading drivers it worked OK (which is a bit odd, because in theory Voodoo requires PCI-2.1 compliant slot, and as far as I know this MB has PCI-2.0 slots only...), I tested few Glide games as well :)

-MDK1 - without Voodoo didn't want to run on 486, with Voodoo it was playable (still a bit slow though)
-Extreme Assault - very playable at full details
-Incubation - playable but slow

Well CPU was definitely a bottleneck - I however have a Pentium-133 PC that needs to be assembled and tested - I guess Voodoo will do much better in there :)

As for the fan - when I gather enough courage to switch from my GF9800 to Voodoo3 I will mount a fan on V3 - I simply don't want to risk any damage to this card (it was pretty hard to buy it, you know :) ) even know, when used with old PC it tends to get hot as hell - I nearly burned my hand when I was removing it from that old 486!