First post, by Robin4
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- l33t
I have a problem.
I have been `brainstorming` a while. Iam trying to decide which VGA graphics card would be ideal for a slower Pentium III 550mhz system.. I have chosen this processor to stay compatible with such called slower windows period Pentium 233Mhz games.. Back in the days there where a lot of windows games that had a minimal system specifications for a pentium 233MMX system, and mostly they recommend at least a faster system like an Pentium II 300mhz. I chosen my system parts so it could handle these games as will till games that just are needed a Pentium 500 / 550 mhz at max..
But iam doubt a lot of which graphics card i want to using for this system.. I`ll ready also have two voodoo 2 cards in SLI..So i dont need another voodoo 3 or so anymore.. Iam more focussing on the graphics card for use on Microsofts DirectX API.. When start building this machine i was convinced to use a Diamond Viper V770 32MB AGP.. After some search this cards isnt that much speedy on higher resolutions, so the FPS is to much dropping down.. I know after that graphics card came the Geforce 256 GDDR (first GPU) graphics card but it lacks just a lot feature over an Geforce 3 one.. Its have a very first version of Transforming and Lightning.
The geforce 2 graphics adapter is some what renewed version of the first Geforce 256 graphics adapter, with a version 2 of the transforming and lightning.. Someone on this forum told my that the geforce 2 cards is a somewhat weird card that could having problems with the voltage part of the AGP slot (3.3volt and 1.5volt one)
If i already had chosen the geforce 2, i had go for the much faster ultra version or so (or the pro one) But because these cards are just rare now, i decided to go for a geforce 3 64MB instead..
Only my motherboard does only support till AGP 2x.. The card can use AGP4x instead with fast writes.. I know that the graphics card is some what more newer then this system does. (some more time forward)
I really like to know do i have performances loss with this motherboard? ( what people said back in the day, that AGP 4X wasnt that much faster as AGP2x..
- Did i have make the right pick here? I really like to read what you are thinking and maybe could me give some advise to me..
I had tried that geforce 3 (asus V8200 geforce 3 64MB Deluxe TVr AGP) in my system, but what struck me that the quality of the image / screen wasnt very high as i espected.. It just looks like pale..
~ At least it can do black and white~