Now that I've been running my Win98SE box for a while, I've been thinking about moving from my 4MB Diamond Voodoo 1 card to a 2x Diamond Monster 3d II (Voodoo2) SLI setup to push higher resolutions (800x600 & 1024x768). I know these cards scale pretty well with CPU speed, but I'm wondering if I should swap out my board/processor and move to a Pentium II 450Mhz or Pentium III setup (possibly Tualatin)? I have all kinds of parts laying around, just wondering what would provide the most horsepower for these two cards without being overkill.
Current Setup
Win98SE
Gigabyte GA-5AX Rev 5.2
AMD K6 III+ 400ATZ running at 500Mhz (5x100 @ 1.6V)
512MB PC133 SDRAM
ELSA Riva TNT2 Ultra (2D)
Diamond Monster 3D (Voodoo) (3D)
AWE64 (WAVE)
Ensoniq SoundScape (MIDI)
I have a few Asus 440BX boards (P2B, P2B-S, P2B-LS) laying around along with some slot one P2's, but I also have a couple P3's laying around too - including my newly acquired ASUS CUSL2-C and 1.4Ghz Tualatin. I know you can reach a point of diminishing returns when the Voodoo2s become the bottleneck and not the processor. Would I be ok with my current setup and just throw in the 2 x Voodoo 2's?
I'm pretty sure my K6-III+ @ 500Mhz would behave close to an Intel P2-450, although the floating point would suffer a bit compared to the Intel proc.
Thoughts?
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