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IMO definitely the rendition. If GPL is your main concern then get an 8meg
thriller. If you also play games requiring 3dfx then... well... voodoo
banshee is great. As Remco said the rendition is the best for slower cpu's.
As someone who had a 200 with the 8meg thriller I must say that even though
the video upgrade will help that GPL is a huge cpu hog and I wasn't really
satisfied until I upgraded to a 450. Now it is freaking unbelievable.
JM

Jo wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I'm running GPL with a Pentium Pro @233, a rendition v1000 card
> and a voodoo card. The graphics acceleration is done by the voodoo.
> If i'm in the arcade view i get constant 36 fps with my display
> settings, but in the driving view, which i prefer, i get about 20-30 fps.
> I know that there are some problems with cockpits and voodoos.
> The graphics card seems to be the bottleneck.
>
> What kind of upgrade would you suggest?
> Rendition v2200 or voodoo 2, would that help?
>
> thanks,
>
> Joachim



