I have a P90 with 16M & (ATI "Mach64" 2M card), and I'm interested to
upgrade my system at a reasonnable cost for good playability in GP2.
- Should I replace my "P90" chip with a "P166" ?
- Or I want to replace my motherboard and upgrade to a"Cyrix686 p166+"
which is cheaper and probably faster?
(With most detail on, would I get a maximum frame rate with any of these
system ??? )
Thank you in advance.
Chris
Don't forget the added expense of all new SIMM's if you upgrade
your motherboard. Another solution is to try what I did. I had (have?) a
P90 with 24mb RAM and a Diamond Stealth64 PCI w/ 2mb VRAM.
I haven't upgraded the memory yet, but I plan on eventually
upgrading to probably 48mb of RAM. What I did do was fairly easy and
relatively inexpensive. I purchased the PCI daughtercard for the
Stealth64 adding an additional 2mb VRAM and bought the Intel Pentium
Overdrive processor for the P90 which increases the speed to 150mhz. I
was able to do both for $180 with a friend who could get the stuff for
his wholesale price, but it is still a solution and relatively
inexpensive.
Nick
*I have a P90 with 16M & (ATI "Mach64" 2M card), and I'm interested to
*upgrade my system at a reasonnable cost for good playability in GP2.
*
*- Should I replace my "P90" chip with a "P166" ?
*
*- Or I want to replace my motherboard and upgrade to a"Cyrix686 p166+"
*which is cheaper and probably faster?
*
*(With most detail on, would I get a maximum frame rate with any of these
*system ??? )
*
*Thank you in advance.
*
*Chris
Hi Chris,
I'm running the game on a dx4-100, 8 megs of ram, 1 meg VRAM on VGA mode
- and it works fine, bar the replays, which slow down if there are a lot
of cars involved. The thing is, more is better - but with 2 megs of VRAM
you should easily get most of the detail on SVGA mode. I'd buy the game
and see if you need to upgrade to 166 mhz - my gut feel is you won't need
to...
Cheers
idrop
: Don't forget the added expense of all new SIMM's if you upgrade
Why would you have to change all your SIMMS? last time I checked you
could just take your old SIMMS out of your old Mboard and put them
in your new one. And since you can buy 16Megs of EDO for ~$110 now,
even if you did have to buy all new ram, it is not that expensive.
in fact, that is what I would upgrade before I did anything with
the processor, because it is so cheap now.
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> As for the processor - I play on a P133 and while it is
> perfectly playable with most textures on, I'd still kill to play it on a
> P200!
> Julian
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Keep in mind that at 18 frames, at Monaco, with the sky on, it is
gorgeous beyond belief.
JEB in Vegas
PS My log report is 379 processor, 606 video on the P6.
> I'm running the game on a dx4-100, 8 megs of ram, 1 meg VRAM on VGA mode
> - and it works fine, bar the replays, which slow down if there are a lot
> of cars involved. The thing is, more is better - but with 2 megs of VRAM
> you should easily get most of the detail on SVGA mode. I'd buy the game
> and see if you need to upgrade to 166 mhz - my gut feel is you won't need
> to...
> Cheers
> idrop
Julian
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