KingPing wrote:Hi! (first time i post in the forum!!!) […]
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Hi! (first time i post in the forum!!!)
I recently bought a Compaq AP550 Workstation really cheap 😊
so cheap i might buy another, just to have spares 😀
it came with:
2x PIII 1Ghz
256MB RDRAM (soon 1GB or 768MB)
Matrox millennium G400 MAX Dualhead 32MB
18GB SCSI HDD
Windows XP SP3
I added:
SB Live! CT4760
3Dfx VooDoo2
i was wondering what GPU is best suited for a rig like this?
THX!
I'd say it depends on your plans, what era games and what OS you are sticking with.
In the day I used two Abit VP6s with 2x1ghz, a bunch of CUV4-Ds Dual P3s as servers and a CUV4X-DLS with SCSI and AGP Pro that I still have and use for Win98 gaming. The dual p3 offered a lot at its time, so much in fact Intel never offered them on consumer, non-xeon/server boards again because the benchmarks against the very first crop of Pentium 4s were overwhelmingly negative.
Any top of the line AGP 4X GPU will do for XP. For games I used a Radeon R100/64MB for the longest time. Upgraded to a Radeon 9600XT, then a Geforce 5500 to a 6800. I think the turning point was GTA: San Andreas with fog and view distances is when I noticed the CPUs finally struttering but not the vid card. I'd say any major title after that is suited to pci-e cards and p4 systems.
I also used AGP Pro cards: an ATI FireGL Z1 and Quadro4s (900 & 980XL) but that was to get dual DVI desktops for cheap as 2nd hand they were way cheaper than any dual-head gaming card on account of being terrible for games.