Author Topic: Can you reccomend a graphics card? (Read 455 times)

iculus · « **on:** October 11, 2001, 03:57:00 PM »

My Voodoo II isn't cutting it any more. Can anyone reccomend a cheap, AH compatable card? Not too flashy as it's running on a PII 333.

Thanks,
IC

jpeg · « **Reply #1 on:** October 11, 2001, 08:17:00 PM »

Depends on what you mean by cheap, but you can get the geforce2mx for $85 these days and its pretty good

Upgrade that proc too asap

bloom25 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2001, 02:28:00 AM »

Not that it will make a huge difference, but you can buy a slot 1 to socket 370 converter and definately switch to up to a 500 Mhz Celeron (bios update probably needed.) If you have a BX chipset board you may even be able to go up to a 600 or 800 p3 with some of the newer converter cards. (Take a look at www.tomshardware.com for an article on that one.)

SKurj · « **Reply #3 on:** October 12, 2001, 01:05:00 PM »

well.... if you simply cannot upgrade the processor i'd recommend a GF2 MX a cheap one.
Your cpu will be the bottleneck

SKurj

Am0n · « **Reply #4 on:** October 12, 2001, 01:07:00 PM »

Sorry bud but that PII333 will out run a celeron 500 any day, thats a good CPU (in its time atleast).

Do you have a AGP or PCI interface?
jpeg is right the geforce IIMX is probably the best buy for the money, ive even seen um cheaper than what jpeg posted.

Am0n · « **Reply #5 on:** October 12, 2001, 01:16:00 PM »

Iculus

There is a computer show comming through columbus on Oct 21st and 22nd, i know for a fact you can get a great card for dirt cheap.

hell last time i went i was able to talk a salesmen down to 200$ for a 21inch hitachi monitor, those retail for 700-900$

here is a link to there information web site. I really recomend you check it out if you want to save some cash, plus you can have a road trip!

Lephturn · « **Reply #6 on:** October 12, 2001, 02:58:00 PM »

Am0n you can't say a PII 333 will outrun a Celery 500 in AH, it is not that simple. It depends a lot on the particular application. Sometimes clock speed is king. At default speed I think the Celery 500 may still be a better choice, but crank the FSB speed up on the Celery and OC it a bit, and I'd bet it crushes the PII.

AH in particular is all about Floating Point operations. The Celeron's FP unit is pretty much the same as the PIII's, and it has later model SSE instructions than the PII. The only difference would be cache. The Celery is running at a higher clock speed, and I think that would overcome the small caching penalty in an application like AH.

Hell, I'd put a Socket 370 Celeron II up against a PII at the same clock speed. In AH I think the Celery might just win.