- Joined
- Nov 25, 2001
- Location
- Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Hi guys,
I have a voodoo 3 PCI in my system at the moment. Now I can overclock this quite happily to 3500 spec, and I'm not a resolution snob, 800x600 or 1024x768 is fine for me.
I'm buying new toys, Chaintech 7VJDA with KT266A, XP 1700+, 256Mb DDR, and at first thought it would be a bit silly to be using a PCI card with these..... but I've been looking at figures, and dang me if it doesn't look like I can't improve on the voodoo much for cheap.
So I was going to keep it for now, until my wife said she wants a good card for her K6-2-400 system. It hasn't got an AGP slot, PCI cards are rare, so we thought she could have my Voodoo and I could get a new AGP card. However, the upgrade budget is tight and I can probably only spend around $100 or so Canadian.
However, what I consider an "upgrade" has to be at least 50% faster than what I've got, and looking at benchmarks and reviews I am not seeing anything that looks very nice at a price I can afford. It would seem that some of the GeForces are only as fast or a little faster and even slower in some situations, likewise the first Radeons, and I get to buy into the "will the sucker work with my motherboard" pile of hurt.
So I'm seeing quotes around here that for example the GeForce 2 MX 200 , sometimes performs slower than a Voodoo 3, which I can believe, since I've seen benchmarks with it only leading the Voodoo a few percent, and in the best cases doubling the performance, but in those situations the Voodoo is down among some cards that it wouldn't normally consider competition, so seems more like a driver oddity.
So what I would like is a rundown on the cheaper GeForce cards that are available OEM and surplus at the moment, which is which??? it's damn confusing. Which will definitely be all round "significantly" faster, and which might I be dissappointed with?
Heh, before I got the voodoo it seemed like you could get cheap and good AGP cards for $30US and up, now I want to improve on it, I'm only sure that's the case at like $100 and up.
I usually have a "at least twice as fast" upgrade philisophy on other parts, I don't usually notice the difference much otherwise.
Thanks,
Road Warrior
I have a voodoo 3 PCI in my system at the moment. Now I can overclock this quite happily to 3500 spec, and I'm not a resolution snob, 800x600 or 1024x768 is fine for me.
I'm buying new toys, Chaintech 7VJDA with KT266A, XP 1700+, 256Mb DDR, and at first thought it would be a bit silly to be using a PCI card with these..... but I've been looking at figures, and dang me if it doesn't look like I can't improve on the voodoo much for cheap.
So I was going to keep it for now, until my wife said she wants a good card for her K6-2-400 system. It hasn't got an AGP slot, PCI cards are rare, so we thought she could have my Voodoo and I could get a new AGP card. However, the upgrade budget is tight and I can probably only spend around $100 or so Canadian.
However, what I consider an "upgrade" has to be at least 50% faster than what I've got, and looking at benchmarks and reviews I am not seeing anything that looks very nice at a price I can afford. It would seem that some of the GeForces are only as fast or a little faster and even slower in some situations, likewise the first Radeons, and I get to buy into the "will the sucker work with my motherboard" pile of hurt.
So I'm seeing quotes around here that for example the GeForce 2 MX 200 , sometimes performs slower than a Voodoo 3, which I can believe, since I've seen benchmarks with it only leading the Voodoo a few percent, and in the best cases doubling the performance, but in those situations the Voodoo is down among some cards that it wouldn't normally consider competition, so seems more like a driver oddity.
So what I would like is a rundown on the cheaper GeForce cards that are available OEM and surplus at the moment, which is which??? it's damn confusing. Which will definitely be all round "significantly" faster, and which might I be dissappointed with?
Heh, before I got the voodoo it seemed like you could get cheap and good AGP cards for $30US and up, now I want to improve on it, I'm only sure that's the case at like $100 and up.
I usually have a "at least twice as fast" upgrade philisophy on other parts, I don't usually notice the difference much otherwise.
Thanks,
Road Warrior