First post, by prophase_j
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Hello everybody. Go ahead an count me as yet another poor soul who wants to spend a lot of time and money to put a retro rig. What i'm looking to play are games like:
ATF // USNF
Mechwarrior
Earthsiege
Falcon 4
Turok
Tomb Raider
Need for Speed -- all kinds
Longbow 2
Commander Keen
Jazz the Jackrabbit
zNES and N64 emu
So far what i have is an ABIT KT7A /w athlon 1.4 and 512-768 of ram.
For sound purposes i'm going to get a AWE32 or 64 and a yamaha DB. (I'm only gonna have one ISA slot.. and i need a sucka-free soundcard)
So here is my big stump (and yes.. i have spent all day reading these forums and other places)... Do i want to get Voodoo2 SLI and some other card (prolly a ati9250).. or go with a voodoo3/5. To give you an idea video card backround.. i used a Rage128 for years, that i have used in multiple systems.. and just recently i got a 7600gt for my main PC. All this GLide stuff has passed me by until just recently old game spicked up my interests.. now i'm like.. huh.. i played those games... i didn't have that thingy.. hmmm..
My major concerns are the compatibility of post banshee stuff in the older games.. which so far the best of what i can tell is only the "voodoo 1" games. Plus the VESA side of the card seems to be good stuff aswell. The FSAA stuff in the 5 seem cool too.. but deff not a deal breaker.
I like the voodoo2 since i believe it to be more compatible and well.. retro. Major geek points for having the ORIGINAL SLI. I don't like the pass through or having to hunt down 2 identical ones.
For sake of simplicity i like the idea of a voodoo5. I would also like to use this box to play civ4 and the Sims2.. playable.. don't really care about quality in those games. but i don't know if the power of the v5 can take it. Now if this is the case.. i'll have to have at least 2 cards.. one for newer stuff/2D and the other for GLide. It seems that the v5 PCI is just as hard to track down as the identical v2's... and unless my main accelerator has crappy 2d the v3 won't matter as much... so i would rather get the cool points.
Right? this is where i ask for y'alls input.