Vid card recomendation for midrange system

[bernse]

Here are the two I am looking at:

Midrange system - 500-600Mhz, 128+MB RAM

Either - GeForce2MX (Hercules)

or

Voodoo 5 5500

I realize the price differnce is substantial, but where I live a Geforce 2 GTS is almost $100 more than the V5, and that would be pushing it, although I could possible justify the V5, if it is much better than the GF2MX.

Thoughts?


Thanks!

 

[fastman]

Save a buck or two get the MX, you'll be happy.

 

[duragezic]

Another vote for the GF2 MX.

 

[Mem]

12hours now of use with my new Geforce2 MX ,so I`m happy to recommend it.

 

[LXi]

Depends on what kinda games you play. If you're an Unreal fan, or you play mostly Glide optimized games, I would pick the Voodoo5. But for just about everything else, GF2 MX will be better.

 

[Wingznut]

Outside of the price difference, how could you possibly recommend a MX over a V5?

Even in Q3 benchmarks, the V5 is faster except at the lowest resolution.

 

[OneEng]

I would go with the MX. I am not a 3dfx basher, I am a 3dfx OWNER. My V3 2000 has been a great and reliable card; however, right now the MX rules the roost in price/performance. If I were to get a new card today (which I will not) it would be the MX.

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

MX is the Duron of GPUs. For midrange Gaming, I'd definitely go MX.

I beleive there is also a Radeon SDR available now. Check pricewatch - I'm sure a vendor had an SDR version for 135 $US

 

[steelthorn]

I would go with the voodoo 5500, it is a much better card.
I have one and I love it. It is the most stable card I've
ever had.

 

[JokerF15]

if you are going to spend that much money and go for the v5 5500 than y not just get the geforce 2 gts...i run q3a at 1280 x 1024 ar 80+ frames on an athlon 750@850...so you should get pretty good fps on the 500-600....

GO with the GTS!!!