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Thursday, November 30, 2000

More P4 Issues -- 11:07 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

According to The Register, 3dfx is reporting that their AGP Voodoo3 and Voodoo5 products will not work with Pentium 4 motherboards. The Voodoo4 will work fine. The problem apparently lies with both 3dfx and Intel. Intel didn't include support for 3.3V signalling on the P4 motherboards--even though it is part of the AGP spec. 3dfx didn't include a universal AGP edge connector on the V3 and V5 (although, curiously, they did on the V4). So if Voodoo owners want to upgrade to a P4 at this point they cannot take their video card with them, even if it is 3dfx' latest and greatest.

ATi's Radeon and NVIDIA's GeForce reference boards include the universal connector and therefore will not be affected. Having said that, why someone would drop so much cash on P4 systems that are buggy right now anyway (even without this issue) and in many cases slower than the P3 is completely beyond me. Thanks Shugashack.

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