🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 27 May 2000 13:40:23 +0100, Adrian Thompson
<A.R.Thompson@durham.ac.uk> wrote:

>I am new to this newsgroup, so I will try to be as precise as possible.
>I have a PII-450MHz, 128SDRAM, 6Gb Hdd, and...
>I want to upgrade my graphics card from my current, and tortoise-like,
>STB Velocity 4400, which is based on the NVidia Riva TNT chipset, with
>16mb RAM, to either the Voodoo 5 5000 (or 5500) or the Ge-Force 2
>chipset-based card.

With the p2-450, definately go for the GF2 or GF1 DDR. Presently(or
when the cards actually retails) the V5 is pretty taxing on the CPU.

Check:
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/fsaav5gf2part2/

for 450MHz benchies on both cards.

>Which is best for playing DVDs? (I am having some problems with my
>computer and DVDs at the moment.) Would I be better off going for a
>separate DVD Decoder card like the Sigma Realmagic Hollywood card?

H+ kicks ass. Skip the pass-through, only watch through TV-out, using
S-video cables. Sweet, very close to set-top DVD-players.

>Also, what is the difference between the Creative Graphics card which is
>called the Ge-Force 256 Annihilator Pro and the Ge-Force 2 chipset??

Slightly different chipsets(GF vs. GF2), slightly faster memory on the
upcoming GF Annihilator 2. The GF Annihilator 2 will be about twice as
fast in 16-bit, though.

>Any help will be greatly appreciated - particularly from anyone in the
>UK (where I live!!)

Discriminating, are we? ;-) 

Will a swedish response do? :)


/Magnus