Best PCI card?

[SevenUp]

Intel Pentium III 850 Mhz
256 MB Ram
Intel 810e Chipset
Right now using the graphics technology that comes with the 810e chip --> crap

Best pci card for my system?

 

[spanky]

what OS? for win98... voodoo 5 baby

 

[SevenUp]

Windows ME
No $ for a new OS.

Games to Play: Return To Castle Wolf, Medal of Honor, Diablo ii, Half-Life (a lot)

 

[spanky]

hmm... anyone know how the me drivers for the v5 are? hehe... 3dfx chump here

 

[FSUpaintball]

I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but STAY AWAY FROM VOODOOS. Because 3dFX is out of business now, the cards have gone down the toilet - there's no support, and bad 3rd party drivers are the best you can do. Most games don't even bother to try to support them - it's luck of the draw.

I'm a hardcore GeForce fan, but for PCI, I think Radeon is better. Just get a decent one, and you'll be fine.

 

[SevenUp]

Could you tell me the name and some benchmarks?

 

[Alex]

hell if voodoo5 works with win98 it works with ME and it is THE BEST PCI CARD out there... rest assured!

 

[spanky]

<< I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but STAY AWAY FROM VOODOOS. Because 3dFX is out of business now, the cards have gone down the toilet - there's no support, and bad 3rd party drivers are the best you can do. Most games don't even bother to try to support them - it's luck of the draw.

I'm a hardcore GeForce fan, but for PCI, I think Radeon is better. Just get a decent one, and you'll be fine. >>




what chu talking about man? i have a v5 and the win98 drivers are great. i'm just not sure about me. voodoos have always been great cards... just becuz 3dfx went outta business doesn't mean their cards stink. their engineers were great... their business leaders sucked ass.

 

[Daovonnaex]

This may seem quixotic, but I must agree with the trend of this thread and suggest the Voodoo 5 5000--it's an outstanding card, very well engineered.

 

[Rand]

<< I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but STAY AWAY FROM VOODOOS. Because 3dFX is out of business now, the cards have gone down the toilet - there's no support, and bad 3rd party drivers are the best you can do. Most games don't even bother to try to support them - it's luck of the draw.

I'm a hardcore GeForce fan, but for PCI, I think Radeon is better. Just get a decent one, and you'll be fine. >>



3dfx driver support was always extremely good when they were around, and they released a couple revisions of WinME drivers fro the V5. I doubt you'll hve much probloems at all with one.

Besides, the GeForce and Radeon rely heavily upon AGP's advanced feature set and take a huge performance hit by going to PCI. Whereas the PCI V5 is within 5% of it's AGP brethren

 

[LongCoolMother]

voodoo 5 r0x0ors your b0x0rs!!! i have a PCI voodoo 5500...it works good.

 

[Daovonnaex]

<< voodoo 5 r0x0ors your b0x0rs!!! i have a PCI voodoo 5500...it works good. >>

I thought that the V5 5500 was AGP whereas the V5 5000 was PCI.

 

[Rand]

<<

<< voodoo 5 r0x0ors your b0x0rs!!! i have a PCI voodoo 5500...it works good. >>

I thought that the V5 5500 was AGP whereas the V5 5000 was PCI. >>



There were PCI V5 5000's and V5 5500's. The 5000 was pretty much the same, just with half the RAM.

 

[Ogo]

I'd stay away from the Voodoo5 if you'll be playing any new games..

from the Medal of Honor readme.txt:

-3Dfx Voodoo 4 and 5
No intro movies play. Various textures are corrupted.
Breakable windows are opaque until broken. Once
broken they have a corrupted texture.

If you can live with that and the high likeliness of the same problems in other new games, the voodoo5 is a good card.

 

[rbV5]

Ogo, you say stay away from the V5, but you don't offer an alternative. So which PCI video card >V5 ?

 

[Daovonnaex]

<< Ogo, you say stay away from the V5, but you don't offer an alternative. So which PCI video card >V5 ? >>

None. For newer games, your only option is the Radeon SDR PCI.

 

[thornc]

Perhaps a Radeon 7200 PCI!!

Radeon PCI review at macworld...
compared with a V5 5500, I know it's not a pc but it should be any big difference.

the 7200 is just a new name for the radeon sdr!

 

[SevenUp]

I can get a Geforce 2 MX 400 with 64 MB pretty cheap.
Is the card worth it? I play a lot of Half-Life and RTCWolfenstein.

 

[spanky]

the gf2 mx400 would be a good choice. future drivers support is always nice to have. should i decide u want a v5... look here.

 

[pillage2001]

Go for the Voodoo5500. You can't be wrong with that. It might not last you for as long as you would want it to though. The only problem I would see is that the drivers will limit the games that you can play in the future where future = 5 years later??

 

[BFG10K]

Another option is the Kyro2 which like the Voodoo5 probably doesn't take a performance hit when running on a PCI bus.

 

[jasonmc1023]

The Kyro II is those Guillemot Hercules cards is it not? Can you please tell me where I can find those in PCI...

 

[Rand]

<< Another option is the Kyro2 which like the Voodoo5 probably doesn't take a performance hit when running on a PCI bus. >>



The Kyro series most definitely takes advantage of AGP texturing and other associated functions of AGP that 3dfx's Voodoo series doen not, so like the Radeon/GeForce it will lose quite a bit of performance in PCI... though from what I've seen it doesnt lose quite as much performance. In PCI it performs slightly better then a Radeon VE, still clearly slower then the V5 but a bit faster then PCI GF2/Radeon's.

 

[marcoco]

This isnt the best but CompUsa has a 32mb PCI VGA card on sale for presidents day for $29.99
I'm not sure what chipset it is but the price certainly is good. Sku #282835

 

[spanky]

<< This isnt the best but CompUsa has a 32mb PCI VGA card on sale for presidents day for $29.99
I'm not sure what chipset it is but the price certainly is good. Sku #282835 >>




i dunno man... u could easily pick up a v3 2000 pci in FS/FT for the same price or lower if u wait. i picked up one for $20 shipped a few weeks back.