voodoo banshee any good?

[Jim Conner]

On Monday 10 January 2005 09:00 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Jim Conner wrote:
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> > 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.

Well, I googled and everything I came up with for the Voodoo Banshee said it 
maxed out at 16MB.  Since it seems that you have a 64MB version, it's a rare 
bird.  It seems like 3dfx didn't come out with the 64mb card till the 
Voodoo4/5.  It ought to do well with performance on 3d games.  If it would do 
better than a working gforce3, that's unknown.  Good luck.

Jim
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