First post, by Karunamon
Greetings,
I picked up a beautiful system by way of a classified. It appears to be a completely stock Presario 2240, in great condition, with no upgrades. I'm in the process of maxing out the memory on it (48 megs) and getting a CF/IDE adapter to give those 20 year old hard drives a rest, but what I really want to do is to slap an upgraded graphics card in it. So far, stuff like Need For Speed and Urban Assault at anything north of 320x240 is like watching a slide show.
The natural choice here seem to be a Voodoo card of some sorts, but the problem I'm seeing is that everything below the Voodoo3 requires a separate video card, and I don't think the lone PCI slot on this system is v2.1 compliant for a V3 - worse, it's already taken up by the stock S3 Trio64V2, which means if I were to go for an older Voodoo, I'd have to swap that out for an ISA card of some kind and chain it into the accelerator.
So maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. I want to take the graphics on this system as high as they can reasonably go within my (modest) budget. What would you all suggest for a sane upgrade given these constraints?