Tyler Smith wrote: > >I have a pair of 3dfx Voodoo cards in mine and the same software enables > >both cards. Try either the 16-Meg Voodoo3 2000 or the 64-Meg Voodoo5 5500 > >card. > > That is my hearty reccomendation, too. The Raedon 7000 isn't > supported in your machine, and it isn't as fast as the Voodoo5 5500 > anyway. The Raedon might work, but it might not, 'cuz it's unsupported. > > The Voodoo series cards are unsupported too, but they're so much > cheaper, it makes the risk more worthwhile. I have a Vooodoo3 2000 > (overclocked, with a fan on the GPU) in my 9600/233 (stock CPU, but > not for long), and it is great. I can play diablo 2 on this computer, > and I can kinda sorta almost think about playing Quake3. Once I get > the 400Mhz G3 (prolly the same card you've got), I think it should > rock in both games. > > I still want a Voodoo5, though, for the anti-aliasing. > > I say "Go with a voodoo card"
I completely agree, get a Voodoo card, a Voodoo 3 2000 or 3000. Or if you can get a cheap Voodoo 5, that will do too. Also just a side-note that a Voodoo 3 or 5 sometimes works as a second monitor in OS X (although X is unsupported at all on pre-G3s anyway), but mostly not; when I installed X.1 on my B&W G3 350 overclocked to 400 with a V5 I just got kernal panics. Also Tyler I'm sorry to say, but don't bother upgrading your V3 to a V5 at all on your 9600, just fo FSAA. I upgraded my V3 2000 to a V5 5500 on my B&W 400 in the 66 Mhz slot and only saw two or three FPS increase. And FSAA works so slow, either 2x or 4x, ie that it makes the game unplayable at all, that I have turned it off completely on my B&W. But that can also be related to the 21" I'm running on the V5. The V5 can't feed that big screen fast enough so that it even w/o FSAA stutters a lot, even with tweaking the settings to lower volumes, mostly in Quake 3, Unreal Tournament is fine though. But this is comparing apples with peers, because Quake 3 'leans' heavily on the processor while UT 'leans' heavily on the video card. Or was it the other way around? Arggh, I need some coffee...... HTH, Marc -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
