I'm looking to buy a Voodoo 5 5500 to be able to get max performance out of some older flight sims.  However, in just trolling arround the net I read that some newer motherboards may not run the V5500 due to the wrong AGP voltage.  My board only supports 1.5 volt AGP cards, but I can't s seem to find out what the voltage for a V5500 is.

Any help would be apprecated.  Is there a location where a V5500 spec sheet might be found?

Just buy a V5-5500 PCI and you will be fine...

wrote on 25.08.03 at 00:51:20:

I'm looking to buy a Voodoo 5 5500 to be able to get max performance out of some older flight sims.  However, in just trolling arround the net I read that some newer motherboards may not run the V5500 due to the wrong AGP voltage.  My board only supports 1.5 volt AGP cards, but I can't s seem to find out what the voltage for a V5500 is. Any help would be apprecated.  Is there a location where a V5500 spec sheet might be found?

You can't use V5500 AGP on that motherboard. The PCI version will work fine. For specs of Voodoo5:
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3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP


Product Specifications
64 MB of Graphics Memory 667-733 Megapixels Per Second Fill Rate Real-time Full-Scene HW Anti-Aliasing T-Buffer™ Digital Cinematic Effect: Motion blur T-Buffer Digital Cinematic Effect: Depth of Field Blur T-Buffer Digital Cinematic Effect: Soft Shadows T-Buffer Digital Cinematic Effect: Soft Reflections

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The PCI V5500 is a little slower than the AGP, but has all the other specifications.

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author=patience some chipsets supporting this card : SIS 645, 645DX, 745, KT266/A, KT333 (except the version CF)

What is this version CF, I keep hearing about???
Can someone explain the details!

wrote on 09.02.04 at 08:39:39:

This is a version "light" of the KT400.

What does this "lite" version entail?

Would I be right in thinking that, it will be exactly the same as the KT400, but have a KT333 chipset?
Which would mean a KT333 chipset motherboard with an AGP 4x/(possibly 8x also) AGP Slot?

here's a product comparison:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/kt400.jsp

major point is the doubled v-link speed, so maybe the kt400 lite version has a down-clocked v-link to 266mb/s between the VT8377 & the newer VT8235 :-/
second point could be the cheaper ethernat controller of the kt400 (compared to the 3com controller mostly used with the kt333)
and agp...dunno  ;D

yes, the KT400 only supportss AGP 4x/8x, from the link you gave Micha.  Therfore, my theory is correct!  ;D