Advantage to Voodoo 4/5 with Mediator?

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I have an Amiga 4000 with a mediator board set to arrive soon.

I'm looking at getting a Voodoo card, however given what I've seen on forums, there's apparently little advantage in getting anything more than a Voodoo 3 card.

Can anyone with experience let me know whether it's worth buying anything better than a Voodoo 3 to use with a Mediator board?

[amigakit]

The Voodoo 4/5 have more memory - although be aware that only 32 of the 64MB can be used on the Voodoo 5500.  The DVI port also is not active on the Mac Voodoo 5500 and it will require a reflash to a PC BIOS.

[quenthal]

More memory and some screenmodes not available with Voodoo3. Nothing major though.

(Last year I was wondering about this same issue. Since Voodoo3 can show accelerated graphics only in <=16bit I thought I could get around this by using Voodoo4/5. I felt that major limitation was that I couldn't run Warp3D-demos/games in window in 32bit screen/workbench. However, as it turned out Warp3D for classics also have same limitations, so switching to Voodoo4/5 wouldn't release me from these limitations)

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Great, thanks for the info guys!

[SuperTurbo]

yeah, using warp3D om os3.9 only deccelerate the graphics rather then accelerating it.