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Voodoo4/5 in UK?

A Thoma

Voodoo4/5 in UK?

by A Thoma » Sun, 16 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Does anyone know when the Voodoo4/5 cards are going to hit the shops in the
UK/Europe?

Though I have an AMD K6-2 400 with 96mb of ram, my old V2 card is struggling
to run GPL as well as it should be run , besides ,I'll need something meaty
to run GP3 when Crammond and co finally get their act finished.

Andrew

Chris Co

Voodoo4/5 in UK?

by Chris Co » Sun, 16 Apr 2000 04:00:00

I got an email from a 3dfx employee advising that V5 would be mid-may in the
UK


Michael

Voodoo4/5 in UK?

by Michael » Tue, 18 Apr 2000 04:00:00

You may want to think about upgrading the processor and ram while your
at it.

Michael


Peter Ive

Voodoo4/5 in UK?

by Peter Ive » Tue, 18 Apr 2000 04:00:00



I think you may also want to consider upgrading that k6-2 400.  I just
went from a V2 to a v3 2000 with a k6-2 450 and 128 meg RAM, and hardly
see any difference in performance - still having to use the same
settings in GPL for a decent framerate.
--
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A Thoma

Voodoo4/5 in UK?

by A Thoma » Tue, 18 Apr 2000 04:00:00




> >Does anyone know when the Voodoo4/5 cards are going to hit the shops in
> >the
> >UK/Europe?

> >Though I have an AMD K6-2 400 with 96mb of ram, my old V2 card is
> >struggling
> >to run GPL as well as it should be run , besides ,I'll need something
meaty
> >to run GP3 when Crammond and co finally get their act finished.

> I think you may also want to consider upgrading that k6-2 400.  I just
> went from a V2 to a v3 2000 with a k6-2 450 and 128 meg RAM, and hardly
> see any difference in performance - still having to use the same
> settings in GPL for a decent framerate.
> --
> Peter Ives - (AKA Ivington)

It seems , from another thread  , that the K6-2 seems to be a big bottleneck
in the system . Due to the lack of on chip L2 cache no doubt . I had been
thinking of buying a K6-2 550 when prices tumble to maximise the potential
of the m/board but it seems I might be better off waiting for Athlon prices
to fall then upgrading the m/board and chip.

Thanks for the advice

Andrew

J

Voodoo4/5 in UK?

by J » Wed, 19 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Your machine is CPU-limited, I guess.

Jens



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