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From: mennre@leeds.ac.uk (Neil Everett)
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!!Advice please
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:51:33 +0000 (GMT)
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You can get AGP Banshees too.....

Lutrell wrote:

> I have a P2 350,ASUS P2B-S MB,128MB,9 GB hd,32X CD-ROM,Matrox Millenium for
> 2d,two Monster 3D 2 12MB (Voodoo 2 3dfx chip)video cards in SLI mode for
> 3d,17" monitor, and Sound Blaster Live Value with four speakers. I can run
> F1RS and the updated version Monaco Grand Prix RS 2 with all cars,graphics,
> sound turned on it runs smooth. I can also run Viper Racing and Grand Prix
> Legends smoothly. These titles are worth upgrading for also. Many gamers are
> buying a Celeron 300a CPU because its a lot cheaper and can be overclocked
> to about 450Mhz. I have read the Abit MB's are easy to overclock. I haven't
> tried overclocking my P2 350 but I hear 390Mhz is about as high as it can
> go.
> I would get at least 64MB of ram and 4GB or more hard drive. For sound card
> I would get a SB Live Value edition or The new Diamond MX300.
> For 3d cards there I two ways you can go. The first is to buy any decent 2d
> card and then add on any popular brand card that has the Voodoo 2 3DFX chip.
> They are most all about the same ,come as PCI and will run games that use
> Glide,OpenGL or Direct 3D. If you have an extra PCI slot then you can also
> connect two Voodoo 2 cards together in SLI mode. This is currently the
> fastest setup and high resolution.
> The other option is to get a Voodoo Banshee or a Riva TNT card. They are
> both 2d and 3d in one cards. The Banshee is PCI and the TNT can be AGP or
> PCI ,but I would get AGP. The Banshee is similar to the V2 and runs in
> Glide,OpenGL, and Direct 3D, But the TNT is OpenGL and D3D only so it may
> not run some games as well if they need a patch to run in OpenGL. Otherwise
> the TNT is very good image quality in 2d and 3d, and can run at higher
> resolution than the V2 in some games. There is a lot of debate about what
> the best card is and new ones are soon to come out.
> A  steering controller and pedals is a must for any real driving sim addict.
> For a good cheap wheel, Thrustmaster seems to be the most popular. I built
> my own wheel and pedals.
> For more info on computers and parts go to:
> http://www.anandtech.com/
> http://www.tomshardware.com/news/index.html
> Good Luck
> Lutrell :-)
>
> APT wrote in message <36A650F8.1FBC2234@ix.netcom.com>...
> >Any advice from all gamers
> >out there in terms of good system specs that would run F1RS smoothly?
> >(I'm thinking of getting a PII-350 for the procesor)
> >
> >BTW, I haven't been following the development of 3d card so I don't
> >really know what to get in terms of graphic card.
> >

