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ping7678@ping.be wrote in message <378D798A.C9653974@ping.be>...
>Hi,

Hello.

>I am about to get myself a new computer (it will be a 500Mhz I think)
>esp. for playing all the latest games and I am trying to figger out what
>graphic card(s) to get. I have 2 questions:


>1/ is it still best to go with 2 separate cards (a 2D and a 3D card)? If
>so, I think I would get a Voodoo II or III card as my 3D card, cause it
>still seems the card most compatible with games I would like to buy, but
>I don't know which brand is best?!!. Also, which 2D card would best fit
>with the Voodoo card you suggest?!


That's old news. They're all combined 2D/3D cards now. The separate 3D card
was an aberration. There was the Voodoo Graphics (Voodoo 1), Voodoo 2, and I
think some card that Matrox was selling (M3D?). You probably won't see
separate 3D cards again.

>2/ or will a 2D/3D card be equally good, and if so, which is the leader
>here?


The TNT2 cards are nice. The Voodoo 3 is nice. The Matrox G400 will probably
be nice. The ATI Rage 128 pro will be a faster Rage 128, which is nice.

>PS: should I buy AGP or PCI cards?


If you have an AGP slot, you should buy an AGP card. If you have a 500MHz
machine, you almost certainly have an AGP slot. You should buy an AGP card.

Besides, I think some of the cards out right now aren't even available in
PCI versions.

>PS2: is it true that if you use a 3D card like Voodoo 2, this can
>distort your 2D card in higher resolutions? what's the story and is
>there anything you can do about this?


I think that depended on the quality and workmanship of the pass-through
cable that came with the Voodoo card (the cable that was used to connect the
2D card to the 3D Voodoo card).

But why put  a Voodoo 2 card in a 500MHz machine? Get something nicer.
Anything besides a Voodoo 2, of course, will be a combined 2D/3D card.



-Ted M.