First post, by senrew
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About a month ago, I won a voodoo 5 on ebay for just about $50 shipped. The seller sent it off right away and three weeks ago today I had a USPS notice slip in my mailbox. I went in the following Saturday and was told they couldn't find it. The guy behind the counter took down my phone number and said they'd call when they found it. Two weeks later, I had no contact from them. I called and spoke to the supervisor there who said she had found it in the "Return to Sender" bin and pulled it out for me to pick up the next day. I went down there and spoke to the supervisor who went nuts searching the whole building before telling me that she couldn't find it. I called again today and she said to go ahead and have the seller file an insurance claim (Thankfully he had it insured). As she's the person at that branch who verifies the insurance claims, she'd verify it for me as soon as it came in.
I spent the last month virtually salivating for this card to complete my Windows glide rig, but now, I'm left without one as I can't justify paying the normal going prices for them right now.
My p3 machine, as in my signature, is the machine I was going to install it into. It's currently got a GF4 4600 and a Diamond Monster II 8mb card. Will this single v2 be enough to handle all windows glide chores or should I go ahead and find another v2 to run in SLI? The geforce is more than enough to handle any OpenGL or D3D games I can throw at a 933mhz machine, but I need something I can dedicate to Glide games.
My other option is to build up another machine to dedicate to glide games. I've got an ASUS P2B-S with a 500mhz p3 sitting in it. For primary video I've got a Diamond Viper V330 (Riva 128) that I can match up with the V2 and possibly a second for SLI. Or, should I just pick up a cheap V3 for this second build? Will that be enough for the range of Glide only windows games or do I need more horsepower? The v5 would have been nice but running games with full anti-aliasing or whatever the v5 would be able to do with it isn't a big deal for me.
Halcyon: PC Chips M525, P100, 64MB, Millenium 1, Voodoo1, AWE64, DVD, Win95B