Poll for 3d Accelerator Cards

[Mattibaby80]

I'm looking for a replacement for my Voodoo3 3000GTV AGP card and I just wanted a quick poll of what you, the experienced players, recommend for me.  Just let me know what you have.  I run a P3 450mhz, 128mb RAM, and a 10 gig HD.  Please give me your opinions on the best to buy.

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[air_guard]

never ever go for the newest and most expencive card (unless ure rich as a skunk)
I think the gforce2 ddr card will do nice for atleast one more year.
And they now getting so good in price that its a ok buy.

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[Westy]

 A good TNT2 Ultra card ( i Have a Diamond Viper V770) would fit that rig. You may want to check out the hardware forumn for previous questions or advice.
 I currently have a PII 333, 256PC100&133sdram, fly with 1024X768 resolution, 32 bit mode and with the Viper II (32mb) I get FPS in the high 30's/40's untill I get around A1, alot of clouds or alot of smoke at a damaged base. Then it drops down into the lower 20's or if there are alot of planes and smoke lower still. I abbreviate my horizon view in those cases (shift f1, f2, f3) and I'm ok.   From what I understand a TnT2 ultra should give you good performance when used with up to a 600mhz cpu. After that the cpu isn't the bottle neck, the video card is.  

  -Westy

[This message has been edited by Westy (edited 11-16-2000).]

[SKurj]

Ok, my thoughts....

With your current system, your video card as it stands is fine.
If you were to install a card that runs 32 bit colour, you would find the performance hit unacceptable in Aces High IMO.
I currently run a similar system to yourself, and find the V3 bogs down in 16bit over smokey fields and around busy clouds.
You could go to a TnT2 Ultra however I think you will find it a minor performance increase, and a decrease in 32 bit.

To upgrade to a Geforce2, you really would need to upgrade your cpu to get any real boost in performance.  The Geforce2 really needs a 600mhz cpu before you will start to really take advantage of the better card.

My advice, stick with what you have until you can afford to upgrade the CPU


SKurj

[bloom25]

You wouldn't notice much of a performance increase with a PIII 450 going to a faster card.  Right now though, IMO, the best deal for the money are cards based on the Geforce2 MX.  They can be found for around $100 US.



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bloom25
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[Lephturn]

I agree bloom25, the GeForce2 MX is the best bang for the dollar at the moment.

If you have tons of money and want the best, go for either a full-on GeForce 2, an ATI Radeon, or my favourite, the Voodoo 5 5500.  

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[Daniko]

I agree with bloom and lephturn.  I went from a v3 to a geoforce2 mx for 110 bucks, threw in a card cooler for the heck of it and i'm running it on a Duron 650.  I get very good performance, and 32 bit looks so nice.

[prz]

bougth a leadtek TNT2 GTS and although it has clocked @ 200 bucks+ I luuuve it ';-)

taht in connection with 950Mhz Thunderbird.