voodoo banshee any good?

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:
> One of my neighbors seems to have gotten a new computer as an xmas gift, 
> as I found his old computer sitting by the trash a few days ago.  Never 
> being one to pass up old computer parts, I grabbed it and halled it back 
> home to see if there was anything useful.
> 
> amazingly, its got a fully functional AMD K6-2 400Mhz CPU, with 228MB 
> RAM, 17GB IDE HD, tulip-compatible NIC, and 64MB Voodoo Banshee 
> videocard.  Knoppix booted it up without a problem, and I found win98 
> still sitting on the HD.
> 
> Just about all the components are nothing to brag about, but i'm curious 
> about the banshee videocard.  Anyone know if this is any good for 3d 
> performance?

My recollection is that the vodoo banshee cards were considered a creme card 
in their day. I seem to recall lots of effort to get them to work under 
XFree86 3.x. That's probably quite a find in a junker computer. Most of the 
ones I get have something pathetic like SiS or Verge or such garbage.

That machine is powerful enough to make someone a decent workstation. Congrats.

Michael