voodoo banshee any good?

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Jim Conner wrote:
> 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

That's interesting, cause its showing 64MB when the box posts, and also in
lspci output.

> 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

well, my gforce3 card locks up X whenever i try to use it with the nvidia
driver so, i'm hoping the banshee works better.

> 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.

well, i blame that on M$.  people just keep thinking that an entire box is
obsolete simply because it won't run the latest, greatest stuff.

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