>Hi i'm asking a simple question i think ??. I have a diamond 3d stealth
>3000 2d card if u had to choose a next card which would it be either a
>2d/3dfx card like the creative labs 16mg banshee or the diamond fusion
>or would u just keep the 2d card i have and get either a voodoo 2
>diamond 12 or 8 mg card my stats are intel p233 64edo (i'm thinking of
>getting a celeron 266 chip like everyone here has and overclocking it to
>480 ?? what board would u recommend with that chip and how many fans do
>u guys use just 1 ?? thanks in advance
>RD-RACER
>"keep those knees draggin"
Depends on much you are willing to spend. At the very least you could
keep your card and put in a V2 card. My personal recommendation is to
buy a good 2D/3D D3D AGP card and put a V2 card next to it. That is
what I did, I play a lot of 3dfx (or GLide) games. If you plan on
upgrading to a Celery the new board you get will almost certainly have
an AGP slot anyway. Heck you can one of the new TNT cards for $160 (I
think) and V2 cards are coming way down in price. The V2 card scales
very nicely with PII processors anyway, so until games increase
dramatically thier fill rate requirements, a V2 card will go along way
in your new system. A good 2D/3D card in combo with a V2 card will
give you complete compbatility with all games with up to date
performance. I personally use a Diamond G460II in concert with a
Diamond Monster 3DII 8Mb.
As far as a new processor and MB, try and go for a 300a instead of the
266. Mimimal difference in price and will overclock slightly better
and has (I think) 256 L2 cache. Go for the ABIT BH6 motherboard. It
lends itself very well to overclocking, you can do all adjustments
from the BIOS software, no jumpers on the MB. I use the
predecesssor, the ABIT LX6.
Fans?? As many as you want. Heat is the ALLTIME enemy for any
electronic component. Everything in the case creates heat. I have
four fans in my system, fan in the power supply, two fans on the
processor, and a seperate case fan. Fans are cheap insurance. Since
you plan on OC your Celery, the more heat yo can radiate off the
processor the better off you are going to be. OC creates even more
heat than normal in the processor, and if you can keep it cool, the
more chance you will have at a stable overclocked system. Make sure
you have a good strong power supply however,. the more fans you run
the more power you suck up. I would suggest at least a 275 W power
supply.
Hope this helps in your decision!!
Wheels down, pointy end forward!!
Steve (remove NO-SPAM to e-mail)
