drive GPL online with higher res. and full options. However, I installed GPL in
on a P111-500 system in a showroom. This machine had a Monster 3DFX Voodoo2. I
was very dissapointed with the performance.
I own a P11-333/66bus motherboard/Creative Voodoo2 computer. I found that on
average the performance increase was around 10-20% (res. and options the same
for both machines).
eg. Res 800 x 600
all graphic options on and slider bar in centre
1. At the back of the grid at Silverstone
P111-500/100FSB P11-333/666Mhz bus
1. 27frames/sec 22frames/sec
Not much of an increase when on paper the P111-500 should be some 50% faster
than P11-333 in Mhz alone.
Considering all other software runs fine on my existing computer I don't think
it worth the expense for such a small increase in power.
Whether the bottleneck is the graphics card only the Voodoo 3-3000 will
demonstrate this, but I remember that the V2 was supposed to come into its own
on P11-350s(100FSB) and above. If this is so then why did it not show a genuine
marked increase over my P11-333 in the example above?
Any comments would be appreciated, people!
Alan