Author Topic: Vid card advice needed please.... (Read 409 times)

sling322 · « **on:** October 24, 2001, 01:26:00 AM »

Ok...my roommate needs a vid card so that he can run AH in acceptable resolutions with a decent framerate. I was going to donate my old Voodoo5 5500 to him, but the only problem is that he doesnt have a AGP slot. His system is not that great, but even with what he has now he is getting framerates from 5 to 10 fps. His machine is an Emachines PIII 500mhz with 256 megs of ram. It has 4 meg onboard video now and he gets 5-10 fps in AH at the lowest resolution setting.

What PCI card recommendations would you guys make keeping in mind that we are trying to keep the cost fairly low? I looked in pricewatch.com but I dont know that much about the different PCI cards in order to recommend one to him.

Any advice?!?!

bloom25 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2001, 02:10:00 AM »

They made PCI versions of the voodoo 5. I'll bet they are REALLY cheap right now.

sling322 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 24, 2001, 02:45:00 AM »

They may be really cheap Bloom...but are they going to work well?

Wilbus · « **Reply #3 on:** October 24, 2001, 03:55:00 AM »

Try and find a Geforce 2 PSI version, not sure they actually exist but I think they do. Otherwise, buy a TNT2 PSI version, really cheap now.

Kieran · « **Reply #4 on:** October 24, 2001, 07:05:00 AM »

I just saw some GF2 PCI cards at the local Best Buy. They exist.

sling322 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 24, 2001, 09:25:00 PM »

thanks fellas

SOB · « **Reply #6 on:** October 25, 2001, 12:24:00 AM »

Hey Sling...I have a cheap friend who needs to get himself a good video card. If you ain't using that V5, gimme a post on the squad bb and let me know what you want for the card! Thanks

SOB