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  • Funny: 3dfx problems

    I put a voodoo3 2000 pci into my work pc, replacing an older 4meg card.
    My thought was it would give me a faster ramdac + more memory, and if I happened to play q3a on my dual pro...

    Well, things ran really poorly. So I checked the q3config and i noticed: set r_smp "0".

    I set the value to one, and q3 won't run. Now, I think the PPRo is nice, albeit old, chip. but one 200 PPro won't run q3. 2 might just be playable. But, 3dfx drivers have no SMP! So I checked out the message boards at 3dfxgamers.com, and guess what, the people over there are pissed! I thought the occasional flame here was bad. But there, people are ruthless.

    First somebody trashes 3dfx for no smp, then the loyalists call him a baby. then all hell breaks loose. Amusing.

    Though, I'm a little disappointed that there is no smp...

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    Home System:
    G400 DH 32MB, PD 5.30, bios 1.5-22, TGL 1.0
    RR-G, VidTools 1.51
    Win98SE, DX 4.07.00
    Celeron 400@450 (taking it easy on the PCI Bus, Asus P3B-F 1.01A, Bios 1004
    128MB Crucial PC133, CTX VL710, SBLive Value, liveware 3.0
    Promise Ultra66 w/1xWD136BA + 1xWD205BA

    Work System:
    Dual PPro 200 w/256k cache, Intel Providence PR440FX w/onboard UW SCSI, bios # 1.00.08
    128MB 60ns buffered asyncronous ECC DRAM
    9.1GB IBM Ultrastar 18ES UW SCSI
    Voodoo3 2000 PCI 16MB
    Hitachi SuperScan Elite 17
    WinNT 4.0 SP6




    [This message has been edited by moreau (edited 24 February 2000).]
    System: P4 2.4, 512k 533FSB, Giga-Byte GA-8PE667 Ultra, 1024MB Corsair XMS PC333, Maxtor D740x 60GB, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, PCPower&Cooling Silencer 400.

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    P.S. That Voodoo 3 chip runs HOT!!!
    Under light loads the heatsink gets almost too hot to touch.

    Not to be a matrox-phile, but I think our hardware is a little bin nicer quality, IMHO.
    System: P4 2.4, 512k 533FSB, Giga-Byte GA-8PE667 Ultra, 1024MB Corsair XMS PC333, Maxtor D740x 60GB, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, PCPower&Cooling Silencer 400.

    Capture Drives (for now): IBM 36LZX 9.1, Quantum Atlas 10KII 9.1 on Adaptec 29160

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      Yeah, thats sucks ass!

      And yes those chips get hot. I put a temp prob on a PCI 3000, it ran at about 130-160 degrees ALL THE TIME!

      The little heatsink on one of the Power transistor got up to 180!!!!! Holy Crap..

      Anyways. nice story.

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