How far do you go to fix commodity PC boards?

[Chuck(G)]

I'd have to go digging into my pile of display cards, which has to go to the bottom of the list of things to do. However, I believe that it's a Voodoo 3 AGP. Is the Voodoo 3 considered a dog?

 

[Unknown_K]

Voodoo 3 is a decent card, but there are the 2000, 3000, and 3500 models going from slower to faster (the 3500 has TV, Radio, and a funky break out cable so probably not that one).

 

[Unknown_K]

Sooner or later, everything breaks and what you find in the recycle bin is always going to be newer and newer. So, I can experiment on this board which I already own or risk something more expensive.

 

[Chuck(G)]

See? I'm not game-oriented and haven't the faintest idea about display cards, as long as they work.

 

[GiGaBiTe]

Voodoo 3 is a decent card, but there are the 2000, 3000, and 3500 models going from slower to faster (the 3500 has TV, Radio, and a funky break out cable so probably not that one).

Don't forget the 1000. It's the slowest Voodoo3, running at 125 MHz and having 8 or 16 MB of RAM.

 

[VERAULT]

Don't forget the 1000. It's the slowest Voodoo3, running at 125 MHz and having 8 or 16 MB of RAM.

That might be the one I had back in the day. I know it was a PCI version. IT was faster than the Vodoo 2 monster 3D II I had.

 

[Caluser2000]

I don't bother with them since I'm everyone's computer dumpster receptacle anyway. I just get a stack, build em' up, use em for 5-10 more years, then either recycle or make them into a "retro rig" if I can't run that period's software on my current ones.

I resemble that statement.....