Good pci card for a pII 300?

[psloan]

Guys,

Second post. (looks like the first got lost in the recent outage, I had to resubscribe and even got my origonal user name. Looks like they had to roll back some recent changes.)

I have a HP Pavilion that I would like to upgrade the card. What is the best card for my old box? I have heard that the Vodoo 3 is pretty good. I would like to keep this under $150.00.

My box:

Pavilion 8275
pII 300
48mb ram (soon another 128 arives via ups)
10g hd
dvd
15 inch monitor (I will probably be upgrading that soon too)

Thanks for any tips.

--pat.

 

[Insomnium]

The V3 3000 is a good card that will suit you well. The ATI Radeon 32mb DDR is available for $150 @ CompUsa ($200 - $50 mail in rebate) which is also a great card, but will probably be limited by the CPU.

 

[oldfart]

Office Depot has Voodoo 3 3000 PCI's on clearence for $78 I think. There are OD coupons floating around also.

 

[Zuofu]

Yeah Voodoo 3 is great for older PCI systems. Even Voodoo II is pretty good for about 35 bucks. Radeon will be very CPU limited - plus you will have some trouble finding a PCI model (dunno if they even have em yet).