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>I have started to gather parts to build a PC, and need some expert advice.
> Intend to use :
> Board - ASUS P5P800 with 1 Gb RAM
> CPU - Pent4 3.06GHz
> Video - Voodoo 5 AGP or 2 x V2 SLI
> OS - Windows 98SE
> KVM - Belkin w/sound (to use current monitor etc)
> HOTAS - CH USB Throttle/Fighterstick/pro throttles
>
> Apart from limiting RAM to 512Mb for LongBow, are there big issues with
> the system being too fast for older games ?

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>I have started to gather parts to build a PC, and need some expert advice.
> Intend to use :
> Board - ASUS P5P800 with 1 Gb RAM
> CPU - Pent4 3.06GHz
> Video - Voodoo 5 AGP or 2 x V2 SLI
> OS - Windows 98SE
> KVM - Belkin w/sound (to use current monitor etc)
> HOTAS - CH USB Throttle/Fighterstick/pro throttles
>
> Apart from limiting RAM to 512Mb for LongBow, are there big issues with
> the system being too fast for older games ?
>
>

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> Forget about the V5 AGP, for a P4, only certain old SIS chipset boards

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> support the V5s older-style AGP, it won't physically fit because of the

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> of a keyed slot, let alone function.
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> "Sunny" <wombathouse@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> What Chris said. A pci version works ok though.
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> "Chris Townsend" <fakename@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> How about a combination of the 2 x Powercolour V2 (SLI) with some other

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> card ?
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> "JP" <nicetry@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Sure, but you can only use one format at once; i.e, pci or agp, but not
> both at the same time. I have a voodoo card in a pci slot and an ATI card
> in my agp slot. I just make a quick bios change to choose which I want to
> use at the time.
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> "Sunny" <wombathouse@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> I thought the V2 cards only kicked in for "glide" games ?
> Using the external pass through cable. Every thing else (2D etc) auto
> handled by the AGP card.
> (That's the way it worked on my old PC) ?
> The V2 has no 2D or VGA function.
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> "JP" <nicetry@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I thought the V2 cards only kicked in for "glide" games ?
> Using the external pass through cable. Every thing else (2D etc) auto
> handled by the AGP card.
> (That's the way it worked on my old PC) ?
> The V2 has no 2D or VGA function.
>
> "JP" <nicetry@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The ASUS P5P800 board "looks" to have plenty of space around the AGP slot,
> providing the RAM is placed in first ?
> The AGP is described as AGP8X/4X (0.8V, 1.5V only)
> The Voodoo5 doesn't have a 1.5V "key slot" and I think it is 3.3V ?
> Looks like I have to find a board with an "AGP Universal Slot" ?
>
> "Jay Williams" <voodoo141bugoff@spamcox.net> wrote in message
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> You won't find any boards that support the 3.3 volt AGP and your CPU, my
> "old sim box" had a MSI SIS chipset board and P4 1.8 Willamette and don't
> think it would have supported even a Northwood. Your best bet would be to
> find a V5 PCI on EBay, a modern AGP card and V2 SLI should work okay but
> it sure will be hard to go back to the days of no FSAA.
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> I have started to gather parts to build a PC, and need some expert advice.
> Intend to use :
> Board - ASUS P5P800 with 1 Gb RAM
> CPU - Pent4 3.06GHz
> Video - Voodoo 5 AGP or 2 x V2 SLI
> OS - Windows 98SE
> KVM - Belkin w/sound (to use current monitor etc)
> HOTAS - CH USB Throttle/Fighterstick/pro throttles
>
> Apart from limiting RAM to 512Mb for LongBow, are there big issues with the
> system being too fast for older games ?
>
>

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> Sunny wrote:
> My Glide game set up -
>
> CPU - AMD Athlon, 1.4 ghz
> Motherboard - EPOX 8KHA+, These or similar are available on ebay
> Video - Voodoo5 AGP
> OS - Win98 SE
> RAM - 330mb of ram
> Sound - Hercules Gamer XP sound card
> HOTAS - Saitek X36 USB
> Pedals - CHpro USB pedals
> MSforcefeedback2 joystick
>
> I use Bob Church's rudder swap to run the pedals with the Saitek X36 usb
>
> KVM - Connectpro MasterIT USB
> Best KVM I have found, allows the use of all keyboard special buttons and
> extra mouse buttons. No problems like other KVM's
>
> 3D glasses Eyeart wired with wicked3d drivers for Win98SE this works real
> well with LongbowII
>
>
>
> Systems works as flawless as Win98SE system can. I switch my controllers
> back and forth with the KVM, which has extra USB ports allowing a USB hub
> to be installed. Nice thing about the Saitek X36 is that drivers for both
> Win98 and WinXP exist and the external rudder driver is available for
> windows98.