celery system w/ voodoo2 sli

[shawn_16]

celery 733 64 (soon to be 128) megs ram w/ v2 sli - how will it perform in counterstrike?

 

[ndee]

if you use a non-SMP OS, you won't notice any diffrence, and with a SMP OS, the diffrence isn't that big cuz the Game itself would only use 1 CPU. I think it'll be fast enough. Not sure about only 64MB RAM. Why not just throw a 256MB in the rig?

 

[Budman]

ndee,

Voodoo2 SLI is 2 voodoo2 cards connected together, NOT dual cpus. 😉

SLIV2 will be very slow,and only having 64 megs of ram will hurt you even more.

 

[shawn_16]

i'm just looking for a decent cheap PCI video card for my friend's hewlett packard (ugh) and was wondering how it would play CS

 

[sMashPiranha]

It will be playable. I had V2SLI in my 733 until a few days ago when I moved them to my 366. You shouldn't have any problems.

 

[John P]

Your Voodoo2 SLI will play Counterstrike at 1024x768 admirably. That used to be my main setup and is still working in my spare machine. Definitely upgrade that RAM!!

 

[thedan]

Shawn_16, It will run beautifully, completely fine at 800x600... or MAYBE 1024x768

 

[DaejangNim]

will run fine at 800x600 at least

 

[ndee]

Budman:

Oops, bummer. I think I read Celery and "2" in one sentence and that confused me.... my bad. I actually read the post more than once.... silly me 😉

But I think it'll be enough. It depends on the resolution. My V2 handled Half-life kinda good with a P233 and 48MB ram. Of course, low resolution.

 

[GD695372]

You shouldn't have any problems.

Quick somewhat-related question.
I heard that the regular voodoo2 cards required a separate 2d card, and that the banshees could render their own 2d. Is this true?

 

[Lord Gwynz]

Does CS use the Q2 engine? If so it should rock on a V2SLI setup, with a C733 you should see well in excess of 100fps at 1024x768.

 

[Sukhoi]

Yes, standard Voodoo2 is 3D only. Banshee is 2D/3D but AFAIK you can't run them SLI.

 

[DaLeroy]

It should run ok...prolly better than my P3 600 with TNT2 M64 32 mb card. That doesn't run at 1024x768 but runs ok on 640x480....arghh!!! I hate my vid card!!

 

[EdipisReks]

i used to run CS with a single voodoo2 on a celeron 400 with 64 MB RAM at 800x600 and everything turned on. it ran as smooth as silk. you shouldn't have any problems at 1024x768.

--jacob

 

[mithrandir2001]

<< i'm just looking for a decent cheap PCI video card for my friend's hewlett packard (ugh) and was wondering how it would play CS >>


Then just get a Voodoo3 3000 PCI card, which goes for about $40 used. That way, you get power similar to Voodoo2 SLI *and* you get built-in 2D acceleration, saving you 2 PCI slots. Voodoo2 SLI requires 2 PCI slots for the Voodoos and 1 for your 2D card. Voodoo3 takes up 1, since it is all-in-one.