Franki,

wish I was joking. Unfortunately I am unemployed right now and the only
machine I have besides a 486 is this P I I got 5 years ago. The software
manager is not being displayed completely under this video card and I
therefore want to increase my video card.

I figured the Voodoo 3 would be a good call but need some advice on the
CPU drain on the P I 100 Mhz with 48 Mb of RAM.

I cannot afford to buy a new system being out of work so I am looking at
increasing the display to the max given the hardware I have. 

P.S.: A new machine will more than likely set me back R7000 whereas a
video card will only be R950 so it is the lesser of the two.



> 2. I have never seen a PCI geoforce, and Pentium systems never had AGP to my
> recollection.
> 3. I am surprised that you don't find the P100 and ram to be the bottleneck
> as opposed to the video card.
> 4. Is this a joke?  I don't mean to be nasty, but this sounds like a joke..
> There is very little benefit in putting a geoforce on a P100, (even were it
> possible)
> 5. are you sure this isn't a joke??  :-)
> 
> >From the testing I have seen, you need something like a 800mhz
> PIII/duron/athlon to
> get the most from a Geoforce.. the bus/cpu/ram all have to feed the card,
> and a P100
> couldn't do that to any great effect.. get a voodoo banshee or something if
> you want
> to inprove your video, don't waste your money on a geoforce...
> 
> This really feels like a joke ???
> 
> rgds
> 
> Frank
> 
> Subject: [newbie] Video cards
> 
> Am just about to get myself an updated video card. I currently have a
> Trident Tgui 9440 1 Mb card running on a P I 100 Mhz and it just doesn't
> cut it in most cases.
> 
> I am looking at either getting a Geforce 3 or Voodoo 3 32 Mb card and I
> wonder if there was any preference to either one as I currently have to
> dual boot between Win95 and Mandrake 8.
> 
> Which one does mandrake already have the drivers for? etc.
>

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