🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 27 May 1998 05:08:18 GMT, brianbet@netcom.com (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. :) 

A voodoo2 is about 2 - 3 times faster at quake/quake2 on a 266. I had
a voodoo1, quake2 (untweaked) gave about 22fps, the voodoo2 gives
about 54fps on demo1. It generally feels a lot smoother, if you can
afford it, then go for it.