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Bernie wrote:
> 
> Brian Bethel wrote:
> >
> > Hey, all. Have a question I'm sure you brilliant Netizens can help me with.
> >
> > I just bought a new Pentium II 266. Yeah, yeah, I know ... your Pentium
> > 400 kicks the snot out of it. It's still a lot cooler than what I had,
> > and it was pretty cheap, too.
> >
> > I have in my old machine an original Monster 3D. My first impulse was to
> > just transfer the card, but I'm starting to wonder if that's the most
> > proper thing to do.
> >
> > How much of a real-world performance jump would I see if I bought, say,
> > one of the upcoming Canopus cards or a Monster II with 12mb? If the
> > perfomance hike is extreme enough, I may cough up the cash.
> >
> > Is the image quality any better on current software? Inquiring minds want
> > to know. :)
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > --
> 
> depends on what you had for a cpu to start with... but you should see
> about double the performance. the voodoo 1 had reached its fill limit
> and was being held back bye the cpu..the voodoo 2 is still free to move
> up in speed.
> 
> as far as looking better..well you can run in 800x600 then so that would
> look better. image quality is kinda a personal view...others think it
> looks better...some think it looks about the same
> 
> bernie
for a card to go 800 X 600 means shit for image quality. Wait for the
next generation cards (G200, PVRSG, TNT and Savage3D).