voodoo banshee any good?

[Jim Conner]

On Sunday 09 January 2005 05:07 pm, 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?

The voodoo banshee wasn't a 64mb card.  It was either a 6 or 8mb card, can't 
remember which(could be wrong).  I have a voodoo3 2000 16mb card and it runs 
decent for older games.  The banshee came out around the same time as the 
voodoo2.  If you have a 32mb tnt2 or a 32mb gforce2 card it would run better 
and match well with the other hardware.  The banshee should play the free 3d 
games that come with most distros such as tuxracer.  It's amazing what people 
throw out these days.  I have a ton of older hardware from people throwing 
stuff out.

Jim
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