Upgrade...help!

I'm looking to upgrade my system. What will gain greater results, upgrading my video card to a GeForce2 Ultra or Voodoo 5 or upgrading my ram? I mainly play GPL, will play N4 and WSC when they come out. Also, what does upgrading ram gain me? I think the video card is probably the way to go but, what do you guys think. my system: PIII 600 128 ram Voodoo 3 3000 thanks, Chris G.

Quoted text (12 lines)

>I'm looking to upgrade my system. What will gain greater results, upgrading >my video card to a GeForce2 Ultra or Voodoo 5 or upgrading my ram? I mainly >play GPL, will play N4 and WSC when they come out. Also, what does upgrading >ram gain me? I think the video card is probably the way to go but, what do >you guys think. > >my system: > >PIII 600 >128 ram >Voodoo 3 3000 >

This is a total no brainer. 128 Mb of ram is more than enough for any present sim, and likely for N4. Get the video card. Which video card? Now there's an issue for dispute, not to mention holy war.

You have a Voodoo 3. This is not the worst card to have. But your CPU is borderline also. Especially for N4 and WSC, you'll be needing all the CPU power you can lay your hands on. Extra memory only helps if you are running several background programs like Game Commander or other utilities. You won't see much improvement in gaming speed by increasing your memory above 128, but you will see less memory caused page faults or disk thrashing when you fill up your ram. 196 megs should be plenty suffecient and fairly cheap right now. The V5 is a great card for RIGHT NOW. But by spring you will probably be looking for something that accelerates T&L in hardware. Best of that vein right now are either the Nvidia Geforce GTS ultra(or whatever they call their lastest offering) and the ATI Radeon. Be ADVISED!!! 32 megs of video memory 'might' sound like a-lot. But N4 won't load it's largest textures unless you have MORE than 32 megs.. My order of upgrade has always been, and nobody has been able to tell me different yet... 1. cpu 2. Vid card 3 . Ram Get the most powerful cpu you can afford. Anything less and your fancy vid card may get lonely waiting for a slow cpu to fill up it's pipes... dave henrie

(bob) wrote: > 128 Mb of ram is more than enough > for any present sim Famous last words <g>. I would say that in view of the fact pc133 is (a) good enough to last a few more years judging by previous false starts on the faster technology front (b) pretty cheap at the moment, it's a good time to invest in 256. It seemed like a lot when I upgraded at the start of the year, but if you look at system monitor regularly it's surprising how much RAM gets used regularly. It certainly makes life more painless... especially in B-17! Andrew McP

[email hidden] (Andrew MacPherson) wrote: > especially in B-17! Heh.. oops, wrong ng :-)

The Geforce 2 will bearly work with GPL because only the Voodoo5 has full support for GPL. The voodoo5 is the ultimate card for GPL, ask anyone who has GPL, and more RAM wouldn't do u any good. And if u have look a Voodoo5 can be bought for as little as 150 and at most 200 dollars. while the price range for the GF2 Ultra is somewhere in the 450+ dollars, if i'm not wrong. Wishkah Chris G. <[email hidden]> wrote in message yEEW5.391600$[email hidden]... > I'm looking to upgrade my system. What will gain greater results,upgrading > my video card to a GeForce2 Ultra or Voodoo 5 or upgrading my ram? Imainly > play GPL, will play N4 and WSC when they come out. Also, what doesupgrading

Quoted text (15 lines)

> ram gain me? I think the video card is probably the way to go but, what do > you guys think. > > my system: > > PIII 600 > 128 ram > Voodoo 3 3000 > > > thanks, > > Chris G. > >

Wishkah wrote: > > The Geforce 2 will bearly work with GPL because only the Voodoo5 has full > support for GPL. The voodoo5 is the ultimate card for GPL, ask anyone who > has GPL, and more RAM wouldn't do u any good. And if u have look a Voodoo5 > can be bought for as little as 150 and at most 200 dollars. while the price > range for the GF2 Ultra is somewhere in the 450+ dollars, if i'm not wrong. Actually, the GeForce 2 card work awesome with GPL, providing you have the D3D patch from Papy, cudos to Grant Reeve and whoever else over there who put time into upgrading an "old sim to run on the latest cards Now, why on earth Grant chose a GeForce card over a V5 is another story :-) Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "Team Mirage" http://www.teammirage.com/ "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/ * Spam is for losers who can't get business any other way * "Spamkiller" http://www.spamkiller.com