IF U HAD TO CHOOSE

Hi i'm asking a simple question i think ??. I have a diamond 3d stealth 3000 2d card if u had to choose a next card which would it be either a 2d/3dfx card like the creative labs 16mg banshee or the diamond fusion or would u just keep the 2d card i have and get either a voodoo 2 diamond 12 or 8 mg card my stats are intel p233 64edo (i'm thinking of getting a celeron 266 chip like everyone here has and overclocking it to 480 ?? what board would u recommend with that chip and how many fans do u guys use just 1 ?? thanks in advance RD-RACER "keep those knees draggin"

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>Hi i'm asking a simple question i think ??. I have a diamond 3d stealth >3000 2d card if u had to choose a next card which would it be either a >2d/3dfx card like the creative labs 16mg banshee or the diamond fusion >or would u just keep the 2d card i have and get either a voodoo 2 >diamond 12 or 8 mg card my stats are intel p233 64edo (i'm thinking of >getting a celeron 266 chip like everyone here has and overclocking it to >480 ?? what board would u recommend with that chip and how many fans do >u guys use just 1 ?? thanks in advance >RD-RACER >"keep those knees draggin"

Depends on much you are willing to spend. At the very least you could keep your card and put in a V2 card. My personal recommendation is to buy a good 2D/3D D3D AGP card and put a V2 card next to it. That is what I did, I play a lot of 3dfx (or GLide) games. If you plan on upgrading to a Celery the new board you get will almost certainly have an AGP slot anyway. Heck you can one of the new TNT cards for $160 (I think) and V2 cards are coming way down in price. The V2 card scales very nicely with PII processors anyway, so until games increase dramatically thier fill rate requirements, a V2 card will go along way in your new system. A good 2D/3D card in combo with a V2 card will give you complete compbatility with all games with up to date performance. I personally use a Diamond G460II in concert with a Diamond Monster 3DII 8Mb. As far as a new processor and MB, try and go for a 300a instead of the 266. Mimimal difference in price and will overclock slightly better and has (I think) 256 L2 cache. Go for the ABIT BH6 motherboard. It lends itself very well to overclocking, you can do all adjustments from the BIOS software, no jumpers on the MB. I use the predecesssor, the ABIT LX6. Fans?? As many as you want. Heat is the ALLTIME enemy for any electronic component. Everything in the case creates heat. I have four fans in my system, fan in the power supply, two fans on the processor, and a seperate case fan. Fans are cheap insurance. Since you plan on OC your Celery, the more heat yo can radiate off the processor the better off you are going to be. OC creates even more heat than normal in the processor, and if you can keep it cool, the more chance you will have at a stable overclocked system. Make sure you have a good strong power supply however,. the more fans you run the more power you suck up. I would suggest at least a 275 W power supply. Hope this helps in your decision!! Wheels down, pointy end forward!! Steve (remove NO-SPAM to e-mail)