The way my agp slot on the mobo is keyed, the 9200 is the highest model that
will fit into my abit 133 bx.
I'm going by the diagram at this link ( bottom of page ):
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
I know a 9200 isn't exactly earth shattering, but I don't want to change my
motherboard, and cpu, just yet, so I'm just looking to get something that
will give me 32 bit color and be equal to or better than my voodoo.
Any help much appreciated.
> All things being equal, will a (or all ) Radeon 9200 cards out perform my
> current Voodoo 3 2000 ?
> The way my agp slot on the mobo is keyed, the 9200 is the highest model that
> will fit into my abit 133 bx.
> I'm going by the diagram at this link ( bottom of page ):
> http://www.ati.com/support/faq/agpchart.html
> I know a 9200 isn't exactly earth shattering, but I don't want to change my
> motherboard, and cpu, just yet, so I'm just looking to get something that
> will give me 32 bit color and be equal to or better than my voodoo.
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>The way my agp slot on the mobo is keyed, the 9200 is the highest model that
>will fit into my abit 133 bx.
>I'm going by the diagram at this link ( bottom of page ):
>http://www.ati.com/support/faq/agpchart.html
>I know a 9200 isn't exactly earth shattering, but I don't want to change my
>motherboard, and cpu, just yet, so I'm just looking to get something that
>will give me 32 bit color and be equal to or better than my voodoo.
>Any help much appreciated.
/ Borchers
> >All things being equal, will a (or all ) Radeon 9200 cards out perform my
> >current Voodoo 3 2000 ?
> >The way my agp slot on the mobo is keyed, the 9200 is the highest model
that
> >will fit into my abit 133 bx.
> >I'm going by the diagram at this link ( bottom of page ):
> >http://www.ati.com/support/faq/agpchart.html
> >I know a 9200 isn't exactly earth shattering, but I don't want to change
my
> >motherboard, and cpu, just yet, so I'm just looking to get something that
> >will give me 32 bit color and be equal to or better than my voodoo.
> >Any help much appreciated.
> Yea, it will be faster than a Voodoo3. 9200 is even faster than a
> Voodoo5, if memory serves me correct. 9200 is about the same as an
> R8500, right?
The Radeon will smoke the V3 in any game/application which doesn't support
the latter's native Glide renderer, but relies on D3D or OpenGL instead.
Heck, even a TNT2 Ultra will kick the V3's ass in OpenGL.
Jan.
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improvement(actually LOST fps in GPL). The only thing the upgrade gained me
was that I could now run n2k3. I couldn't with the V5.
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I have the Abit bx6r2, in that machine I have the geforce2 Mx (before they
came out with the 200 & 400 versions). It replaced my voodoo4(? I had the
highest one they ever produced, in fact the X-wife still has it in her
machine, last I knew.), yeah it was lots faster. but the "voodoo" tittles
looked like crap.
Not that long ago, I bought a better card, for the computer I have since
upgraded to now, & since I bought the card long before I had finalized the
purchase of the upgrad motherboard & cpu), for giggles, I tried the
geforce4 ti4600 128 card in that same old machine. As you can imagine, It
was not but a smidgen better than the geforce2mx, due to the 1000 Mhz CPU I
had in there was definitly a bottle neck, as was the 2x AGP... (the BH6&BX6
are older than your board I have to bet, as they wouldnt do 133mhz/buss or
cpu's (they were slot1 boards, BTW for P-2's ))
So I dont think that the radeon's that are comparable will "not" work in
your motherboard. they will be sort of crippled, I guess... but I know a
crippled geforce4 ti4600 was lots faster than the voodoo4 I had.
> The way my agp slot on the mobo is keyed, the 9200 is the highest
> model that will fit into my abit 133 bx.
> I'm going by the diagram at this link ( bottom of page ):
> http://www.ati.com/support/faq/agpchart.html
> I know a 9200 isn't exactly earth shattering, but I don't want to
> change my motherboard, and cpu, just yet, so I'm just looking to get
> something that will give me 32 bit color and be equal to or better
> than my voodoo.
> Any help much appreciated.
I can only say your experience is not the norm Eldred ;-)
I went from a V3 to a Kyro2 (about the same speed in D3D as the V3 in
GLide) to a Gf4200 that absolutely killed the V3 & Kyro2 in every
respect and is faster, more compatible & almost as good at filtering &
AA as the V5 in my second PC.
I don't know why it isn't, but your Gf4600 should be /significantly/
faster in OpenGL than your V3 even in GLide.
Malc.
That is probably because Papyrus made drivers specifically for the voodoo
range of cards.
>> >Depending on the CPU of course, but I went from a Voodoo5 to the ATI
>> >R8500 and the speed difference was amazing
>> Really? I went from a V5 to a Ti4600, and didn't really notice any
>> improvement(actually LOST fps in GPL). The only thing the upgrade gained
>me
>> was that I could now run n2k3. I couldn't with the V5.
>> Eldred
>> --
>That is probably because Papyrus made drivers specifically for the voodoo
>range of cards.
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I installed my Ti4600 in my other computer for comparison. I'll post after I
get it typed up...
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