Re: New motherboard for 3dfx ?

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From: Dave Gibbons
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:00

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On 11 Oct 1997 04:49:14 GMT, Hihi@earth.nospam (CosmicRay) wrote:

Hi,

>I read that most 3D accelerator cards require a
>PCI 2.1 compliant motherboard...
>
>Sheesh, I just discovered that my GA-586ATE motherboard
>uses the 430FX triton PCI chipset.
>
>I read somewhere that it's only PCI 2.0 compliant.
>http://sysdoc.pair.com/triton1.html#Specifications of the Triton
>
>MUST I change my motherboard in order to have 3Dfx like
>the monster or the new rush cards ?

NO! 

There are a lot of misinformed people spreading this around.

I have a Gigabyte 586AT, a board which I believe pre-dates yours.
It too has the 430FX chipset and only supports PCI2.0

My 3Dfx card works fine.

The voodoo cards are said to be PCI2.1 compliant, this means that it
will work will systems so equiped. It does not mean (AFAIK, and in my
experience) that you must have PCI2.0 - my system and a few friends
who don't have PCI2.0 are proof of this.

Dave
dave@flavious.prestel.co.uk

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From: dave@flavious.prestel.co.uk (Dave Gibbons)
Subject: Re: New motherboard for 3dfx ?
Date: 1997/10/11
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