Hi all!
I haven't used my 3dfx gear in a while and was wondering if their would be any concerns running pci 3dfx cards on modern motherboards. I don't wont to fry anything.
EG: Looking at building a Asrock Z97 Anniversary with a G3258 CPU.
(http://www.asrock.com/mb/layout/Z97%20Anniversary.jpg)
It's got two PCI slots - ideal for my voodoo2 boards.
I guess it all comes down to the voltage and Mhz on the PCI slots, any other considerations???
Any clarification much appreciated!
Hi trigger,
I don't see any problems at hardware level if those PCI slots are PCI legacy slots...
The only difficulty could be to run a old OS like Windows XP (if you want play with the Voodoo2) on a new hardware configuration.
Bye bye
Know thers modded drivers to get Voodoo2 to work with XP, aven think i once saw that somebody got it to work on windows 7, but not sure.
Keep us updated! :D
mmm knew I was missing something, thanks Glide.
I'll probably have to tapper it back a bit.
Saw this Motherboard Supports XP.
http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4505&kw=GA-H61M-S2PV2.2#sp
How about PCI-e sound cards for Windows XP? Any recommendations? If at all. Anyone tried USB ones?
I'll look further into drivers as well.
This looks interesting. With ISA slot too.
(http://www.esis.com.au/Mainboards/MB950.jpg)
http://www.esis.com.au/Mainboards/Mainboards.htm#Commell
It's a really nice motherboard, it's hard to find motherboards wich have ISA these days.
Btw i have a ASUS Essence STX2 pci-e soundcard, and i can only recommend it. it's many many times better than onboard soundcards. Have many more details than the ASUS X79 DELUXE onboard sound. its really nice to have a soundcard with phono, as thers no need of adapters.
I'm using a old Sansui AU-D9 aplifer.