OT: Voodoo5 owners considering P4 purchase, beware !

Yet another reason to go AMD! Taken from a 3dfx.products.voodoo5 post: http://www.3dfx.com/prod/sup/faq-pen4.html [...] The Voodoo4 4500 features a universal PCB and is compatible with all Pentium 4 motherboards. The Voodoo3 product family and the Voodoo5 5500 boards feature a 3.3 Volt only PCB and in most cases will not fit in the new Pentium 4 motherboards. 3dfx does not advise the purchase either Voodoo3 or Voodoo5 products for Pentium 4 systems. http://www.3dfiles.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000780.html There are 2 very good fotos in the above link to show you what the 3dfx clip is referring to.... rms [email hidden]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:45:24 GMT, "Roger Squires" <[email hidden]> thus spoke:

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>Yet another reason to go AMD! Taken from a 3dfx.products.voodoo5 post: > >http://www.3dfx.com/prod/sup/faq-pen4.html > >[...] >The Voodoo4 4500 features a universal PCB and is compatible with all Pentium >4 motherboards. The Voodoo3 product family and the Voodoo5 5500 boards >feature a 3.3 Volt only PCB and in most cases will not fit in the new >Pentium 4 motherboards. 3dfx does not advise the purchase either Voodoo3 or >Voodoo5 products for Pentium 4 systems. > >http://www.3dfiles.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000780.html > >There are 2 very good fotos in the above link to show you what the 3dfx clip >is referring to.... > > >rms >[email hidden] > > >

That cements my purchase of a AMD cpu in the future then. After reading the comparison of the P4 1.5ghz to the AMD 1.2ghz DDR at aces hardware I had no intention of buying a P4 anyway.

Would not the Voodoo5 5500 PCI work just fine??????????? "Roger Squires" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ow9V5.21542$[email hidden]... > Yet another reason to go AMD! Taken from a 3dfx.products.voodoo5 post: > > http://www.3dfx.com/prod/sup/faq-pen4.html > > [...] > The Voodoo4 4500 features a universal PCB and is compatible with allPentium > 4 motherboards. The Voodoo3 product family and the Voodoo5 5500 boards > feature a 3.3 Volt only PCB and in most cases will not fit in the new > Pentium 4 motherboards. 3dfx does not advise the purchase either Voodoo3or > Voodoo5 products for Pentium 4 systems. > > http://www.3dfiles.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000780.html > > There are 2 very good fotos in the above link to show you what the 3dfxclip

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> is referring to.... > > > rms > [email hidden] > > >

Why would anyone buy an Intel P-IV chip system for gaming anyway? I thought that this chips biggest claim to fame was it's ultra fast floating point routines. Routines most software today CAN'T use? I've heard that Corel Draw 10 will use them however. I guess this effectively cripples the chip for almost all games in existence! Am I missing something here? It sounds to me that it's a little like buying a multiprocesser P-III and running Windows 95 on it. Tempest in a tea pot?!? "Roger Squires" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ow9V5.21542$[email hidden]... > Yet another reason to go AMD! Taken from a 3dfx.products.voodoo5 post: > > http://www.3dfx.com/prod/sup/faq-pen4.html > > [...]

Roger Squires wrote:

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> > Yet another reason to go AMD! Taken from a 3dfx.products.voodoo5 post: > > http://www.3dfx.com/prod/sup/faq-pen4.html > > [...] > The Voodoo4 4500 features a universal PCB and is compatible with all Pentium > 4 motherboards. The Voodoo3 product family and the Voodoo5 5500 boards > feature a 3.3 Volt only PCB and in most cases will not fit in the new > Pentium 4 motherboards. 3dfx does not advise the purchase either Voodoo3 or > Voodoo5 products for Pentium 4 systems.

Seeing all the problems the P4 is having, I won't be considering it anyways. By the time it's "fixed", I'll probably be in the market for a new vidcard anyways. :-) Seen the news about the P4 recalls? http://pcworld.idg.com.au/pcw.nsf/news/3DD8A5976B7594D74A2569A6007F1461!OpenDocument -- Chuck Kandler Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS. Registered Linux User #180746 http://counter.li.org