3dfx cards and 83 Mhz bus

[Harijs]

Currently I use an AGP ATI Xpert98, and I run it at 83 Mhz AGP bus - there are basically no other options if I want to OC my Celeron. When I selected a video card, initially I bought a i740, but it didn't even boot on a 83 Mhz bus and on a 75 Mhz bus overheated and froze the system. I remember there were lot of discussions about if Voodoo 3 runs on such a bus just after V3 was launched, however, I didn't read those - I decided to ask after everybody will already have found out it. Now, I am considering an upgrade to either a Banshee (probably a Creative one), Voodoo 3 or ATI Xpert 99 (I know Matrox and Nvidia are fine with a 83 Mhz bus, however, I do not want to buy those). Maybe somebody knows - does Banshee, V3 or Xpert 99 work on a 83 Mhz bus, and if only some cards work at such a bus speed or the majority do.

[smokin1]

I'm sure I haven't had the same experience
as everyone else but I find my banshee board to be the most frustrating thing I have ever purchased..it works ok and I am a 3DFX fan but every time i try to crank up the bus it flips out the entire system and therefore delivers major headaches to moi
maybe the newer ones are better.

[U-96]

I recently bought a Voodoo 3 3000 and for the majority of games I play (I'm a big flight sim fan) there are no problems with a Celeron 400 o/ced at 500 on a 83MHz bus.

The only problem I have found so far is with Unreal, which only runs in safe mode if I'm overclocked. I'm not sure if it had a problem with the AGP at an unconventional setting or just overclocking in general.
It is one of the few games I've seen where the tech support website actually states that the game has a problem with overclocking because it is so demanding.
On the other hand, it could have been a driver problem that I fixed accidentally http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

As for any long term damage to the V3 (or HDDs for that matter) caused by running at 83MHz, I'd really like to hear about them before I break something...