Search the archive:
YaBB - Yet another Bulletin Board
 
   
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print
VIDEOCARD QUESTION. (Read 213 times)
Dec 13th, 2003 at 9:43am

Threadkiller   Offline
Colonel
gah!
London, Ontario

Gender: male
Posts: 2463
*****
 
hi guys, i got my hands on a FREE Vodoo 3 vidcard last night and i was wondering if it was worth installing it on my system. i have an AMD Duron with 700Mghz procesor, 20 Gig HD and not exacly sure the ram.... my CFS2 screenies are ok but my FS2002 are not do fine, i get edges and stuff, the usual on a not-out-of- the-box system.....

so, is it worth installin? ???
 

...
IP Logged
 
Reply #1 - Dec 13th, 2003 at 3:02pm

4_Series_Scania   Offline
Colonel
He who laughs last, thinks
slowest.
Stoke on Trent England U.K.

Gender: male
Posts: 3638
*****
 
Depends, if you've got anything better than a Geforce2 MX installed, forget the Voodoo3!

I upgraded from a Voodoo3 to a GF2 MX years back, and then, the GF2 seemed soooo fast!

If I put the same - GF2 MX - card in my pIII 667 machine ,(Which currently houses my old GF4 MX440,which itself replaced the GF2 MX) Fs2002 is reduced to a very stuttery experience. Thus, I would'nt expect great things from the Voodoo3.
It should cope with conservative ,i.e. low, settings, but I would'nt expect too much.

I think, thinking of a strange way to destroy the Voodoo will ultimately prove more fun!  Grin (Well, it was free was'nt it? )

Consider the  Geforce FX 5200,which are 128MB and fully support DX9 - the Voodoo3 is a 16MB DX7 card I  think!
These cards now cost under 40quid, I'd save myself a lot of grief and install one of those instead, it should be quite happy with the pIII yet will be great on anything faster, and are still fully supported, something the Voodoo's are not.


Paul.
 

Posting drivel here since Jan 31st, 2002. - That long!
IP Logged
 
Reply #2 - Dec 13th, 2003 at 3:47pm

Threadkiller   Offline
Colonel
gah!
London, Ontario

Gender: male
Posts: 2463
*****
 
well i dunno what i have, as far as i know it is the incorporated card (came with the mammaboard) so yeah, i sure wanna get one of those fancy GeForce's or radeons or nVidia's but im still livin @ home and my folks wont spare that much money on something they see as "unnsesesary" Tongue Sad
 

...
IP Logged
 
Page Index Toggle Pages: 1
Send Topic Print