Voodoo 3 Question

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2 total messages Started by Michael Sims Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:00

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Author: Michael Sims
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:00

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	Ok, I'm a cheap-ass.

	I have a PII-300, 128 MB Ram, Voodoo 2 w/12MB right now.
Quake II runs great with this setup.  I'd really like to get into
Unreal Tournament, but right now I'm not getting the framerate I would
like.  To me, framerate is king, and I could care less about the
resolution (my monitor is not all that great).  I have a very low
tolerance for choppy framerate, it gives me a headache to watch it.  I
play Quake II in 640x480 to get the maximum framerate possible.

	If I had to guess, I'd say my framerate in UT is averaging
about 28 frames per second or so, sometimes as high as 40, sometimes
as low as 20, depending on the detail of the scene.  (This is based
off my perception, not any actual tests.)  My goal is to get this
average up about 10 fps or so.

	I have some overtime coming up, so I have about $200 to spare
on an upgrade.  Obviously a processor upgrade is out of the question.
I'm looking into getting a Voodoo 3 3000 though.  I know that my
processor is going to severly limit my performance no matter what card
I get, but with the above in mind (my preferences for framerate over
resolution) is getting the V3 3000 going to help at all, or am I
totally wasting my money?  If all it's going to do is to allow me to
get the exact same framerates I'm getting now, only at a higher
resolution, then I may as well forget about it...

	Any input would be appreciated.
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Re: Voodoo 3 Question

#40

Author: Netclimber(Co30)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:00

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Hiya Michael,

The V3 is a very nice card (especialy for UT/Unreal because of Glide) but
it is definately processer dependant.
I did a little testing (at the end of this...
http://www.co30.com/V3OCmain.html ) and the lowest proc speed was 366.
At 300 MHz, well you may see a few FPS increase.

However, why do you think a processer upgrade is out of the question?
Celeron processers are getting really cheap, and (in games) will give P2
proc's a run for the money.  For about $100 (US) you can pickup a Celeron
500 and the necessary converter card.  Of course this is motherboard
dependant (definately worth looking into).

For $200, seriously look at a Celeron processer AND a V3 (either 2000 or
3000) that combo will definately give a cush FPS.

Now if you are adventerous and if you don't mind overclocking you can get
some very serious performance out of a Celeron 366 (overclocks easy to 550
and costs only $50), and teh V3 2000 vid cards overclock pretty well too.


My 2 bits
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