Greetings,
I'm thinking about purchasing a new Processor. I'm looking at an Athlon 900
Thunderbird on an Abit KT7-RAID motherboard. I'm looking at an ATI
All-in-Wonder Radeon 32MEG Video Card and a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live
Platinum 5.1 sound card. Has anyone had any problems in NASCAR3, GP Legends
or other racing sims with any of these components? How does the
Alll-In-Wonder card compare to others?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff
I have a 1GHz TBird on a KT7-RAID (make sure you buy two identical hard
drives to take advantage of the RAID controller), SB-Live Value, and a 64Mb
GeForce2 GTS. Runs GPL brilliantly (1600X1200 at 36fps), GP3 is also great
at 1280X1024 with few slowdowns (due entirely to ancient code, of course).
The motherboard is getting rave reviews all around, and I'd certainly
recommend it highly.
Rick
"Jeffrey F. Good" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Greetings,
> I'm thinking about purchasing a new Processor. I'm looking at an Athlon900
> Thunderbird on an Abit KT7-RAID motherboard. I'm looking at an ATI
> All-in-Wonder Radeon 32MEG Video Card and a Creative Labs Sound BlasterLive
> Platinum 5.1 sound card. Has anyone had any problems in NASCAR3, GPLegends
> or other racing sims with any of these components? How does the
> Alll-In-Wonder card compare to others?
> Thanks in advance,
> Jeff
>
>
"Rick Baumhauer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> I have a 1GHz TBird on a KT7-RAID (make sure you buy two identical hard
> drives to take advantage of the RAID controller), SB-Live Value, and a64Mb
> GeForce2 GTS. Runs GPL brilliantly (1600X1200 at 36fps), GP3 is alsogreat
> at 1280X1024 with few slowdowns (due entirely to ancient code, of course).
> The motherboard is getting rave reviews all around, and I'd certainly
> recommend it highly.
>
> Rick
Partially in reply to Jeff's message below, I'm running two IBM 30Gb 7200rpm
ATA100 drives attached to the RAID controllers, and I haven't seen any
problems similar to the Maxtor issue. I've had too many problems with
Maxtor drives in the past, but YMMV, of course.
As far as video cards are concerned, I can't speak to FSAA on the 3dfx cards
vs. the GeForce 2 GTS. I also do computer animation on this machine (my
wife would never have let me spend $3k on a new system just for racing
) ), and there's no comparing OpenGL drivers from ATi/3dfx/etc. with the
outstanding drivers and performance from Nvidia. It's a good tradeoff.
Rick
> All-in-Wonder Radeon 32MEG Video Card
Little worried about this, I've heard of driver bugs. Consider a Voodoo5
instead, $150 now and prolly the preferred card for sim racers.
rms
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Jeffrey F. Good <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Greetings,
> I'm thinking about purchasing a new Processor. I'm looking at an Athlon900
> Thunderbird on an Abit KT7-RAID motherboard. I'm looking at an ATI
> All-in-Wonder Radeon 32MEG Video Card and a Creative Labs Sound BlasterLive
> Platinum 5.1 sound card. Has anyone had any problems in NASCAR3, GPLegends
> or other racing sims with any of these components? How does the
> Alll-In-Wonder card compare to others?
> Thanks in advance,
> Jeff
The KT7 is a great board, unless you have a Maxtor hard drive. Some have had
luck, but many, myself included, had a compatibility issue between the
Maxtor and the KT7. You can do a Deja search (+Maxtor +Abit +KT7) for more
info.
As someone else suggested, the Voodoo 5 5500 is a far superior card due to
it's ability to give you full-screen anti-aliasing (FSAA). Once you've seen
your favorite racing sims in FSAA, you can never go back.
