Upgrade Help?

[g00ner 0]

Greets all, I am currently running a dual PIII 500 rig with 512mb and a Voodoo 3 through Win2K. Everything is running well, but I quite fancy getting a V5 5500 and seeing the FSAA in all it's glory. But is my setup powerfull enough to run 4x FSAA in 800x600 or am I wasting my money?

Any help/info would be appreciative.

 

g00ner

[Xiven 0]

I hate (love) to point this out, but FSAA on a Voodoo 5 5500 is SLOW in extremis. In fact even without FSAA, the card is still slow compared to a GeForce2. But, since you're asking if your rig is powerful enough, I'd have to say probably yes and I'd be very interested to see what kind of 3dMark score you get with it.

[EM 0]

My Dual PIII 800 with a Voodoo5 5500 running Quake 2 @ 800x600 pulls 128 FPS with FSAAx2. It pulls 66 FPS with FSAAx4 while burning a CD, typing this in IE and running the RC5 client in the background. I wopuld say that you could most likely run the Voodoo5 at FSAAx4 with your machine but it will depend on the game. My tests of the card seem to indicate what I have read elsewhere: The framerate at FSAAx2 is about 1/3 less than no FSAA and FSAAx4 is about 1/2 of FSAAx2.

 

Ed

[EM 0]

As far as 3DMark goes:

 

Fastest = 4287

FSAAx2 = 3236

FSAAx4 = 1711

 

Dual PIII @ 800

Voodoo5 5500

Win2k Beta1 drivers

 

Ed

[Xiven 0]

I'm jealous of anyone who has a DUAL PIII-800 system.

 

 

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