GPL power

I've asked several questions the past few days, thanks to all who responded. Last one (for awhile): Given my AMD K-2 200/voodoo 1, and given that I can only afford one part at a time, would I get more out of GPL getting an 8 mg herc thriller now and live with the K-6 200 for awhile or should I upgrade to K-6 350 or 400 now and live with the voodoo 1? (I know the thriller is a lot less money than the cpu) Thanks again for all the help, maybe one day I can repay by helping someone here.

To get the most out of GPL you need a fast CPU. I had a Pentium 233mmx and a voodoo1 and changing to a voodoo2 didn't change a thing for me, however, changing to a celeron 300a and overclocking it to 450 made a dramatic improvement. I now run a full field with everything turned on and get 36fps at 800/600. I can run 1024/768 at 36fps with a couple things turned off. Vintook

Well, I guess I responded to the previous post, but, IMHO, I am very happy with my Thriller on a slower system like yours. Feel free to e-mail me to talk more. -_Dave

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> I've asked several questions the past few days, thanks to all who responded. > Last one (for awhile): Given my AMD K-2 200/voodoo 1, and given that I can > only afford one part at a time, would I get more out of GPL getting an 8 mg > herc thriller now and live with the K-6 200 for awhile or should I upgrade to > K-6 350 or 400 now and live with the voodoo 1? (I know the thriller is a lot > less money than the cpu) Thanks again for all the help, maybe one day I can > repay by helping someone here.

-- Dave Schwabe The Aussie Toad -- Grand Prix Legends & Brabham site http://users.wi.net/~schwabe

Ditto for me - had a 200MMX with voodoo1 and upgrading to a voodoo2 just made the fps fluctuate wildly and made it harder to drive, then got the 300A and OC'd to 450 and its wonderful. Don't think an AMD 350 is enough unless you can OC it a bit (fat chance). Get the Celeron - its a cheaper option, even the PPGA ones. Still need to turn some detail off when on VROC to see constant 800x600 36fps though :( maybe a USB modem would help (where r they?) M -- Mike Buckley Cotswold Pig Development Co Ltd Tel: 44 (0)1472 371591 Fax: 44 (0)1472 371208 WWW: www.toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk

I'm not sure, but I think the Intel processors are much better at floating point calcs than the AMD chips. When I went from a K6 233 to a Celeron 333a the performance was far better than the clock speed increase might suggest. >To get the most out of GPL you need a fast CPU. I had a Pentium 233mmx and a

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>voodoo1 and changing to a voodoo2 didn't change a thing for me, however, >changing to a celeron 300a and overclocking it to 450 made a dramatic >improvement. I now run a full field with everything turned on and get 36fps >at 800/600. I can run 1024/768 at 36fps with a couple things turned off. >Vintook >>I've asked several questions the past few days, thanks to all who >responded. >>Last one (for awhile): Given my AMD K-2 200/voodoo 1, and given that I

can >>only afford one part at a time, would I get more out of GPL getting an 8 mg

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>>herc thriller now and live with the K-6 200 for awhile or should I upgrade >to >>K-6 350 or 400 now and live with the voodoo 1? (I know the thriller is a >lot >>less money than the cpu) Thanks again for all the help, maybe one day I >can >>repay by helping someone here.

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>I've asked several questions the past few days, thanks to all who responded. >Last one (for awhile): Given my AMD K-2 200/voodoo 1, and given that I can >only afford one part at a time, would I get more out of GPL getting an 8 mg >herc thriller now and live with the K-6 200 for awhile or should I upgrade to >K-6 350 or 400 now and live with the voodoo 1? (I know the thriller is a lot >less money than the cpu) Thanks again for all the help, maybe one day I can >repay by helping someone here.

CPU horsepower is the way to go in your case. If you have a good super socket 7 board that allows 100MHz FSB, a K6-2 350 or 400 would be a good investment. If you have an older board, a Celeron 300a and a new board is the better choice for GPL, however. GPL performance depends a lot on L2 cache speed and FPU performance. A K6-2 on a board with 1MB of L2 cache at 100MHz FSB will be performing nicely, even though the AMD FPU is not up to par with Intel's FPU in GPL. A Celeron, OTOH, has a smaller L2 (128k) cache running at full CPU speed and a better FPU. And it can be overclocked. -- Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.