computer upgrades

Well guy's I'm finally ready to do a few upgrades to the old 486 in here and would like your opinion. Should I get one of those overdrive chips or just replace the entire motherboard with say a P150 or P166? Also what kind of 3D accelerator do tou reccomend? Computer mainly used for Nascar, Indycar 2, NFS, Destruction Derby, MTM, Doom2, etc.. thanks in advance Mike Old VWs Don't Drip Oil; They Just Mark There Spot .----------------------------. `/""""/""""/|""|'|""||""||""||\ Mike Ehmann /----------=====================| '65 Beetle | \ /V\ / _. | |()\ \W/ /() _ _ | Member North Houston | \ / / \ / \ | _-( ) Volkswagen Club =============_| ) |--------| ) |==] _-{_}_) \_\_/__.. \_\_/_ \_\_/ \_\_/__.__. Give me the simple life.

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> Well guy's I'm finally ready to do a few upgrades to the old 486 in here > and would like your opinion. Should I get one of those overdrive chips > or just replace the entire motherboard with say a P150 or P166? Also > what kind of 3D accelerator do tou reccomend? Computer mainly used for > Nascar, Indycar 2, NFS, Destruction Derby, MTM, Doom2, etc.. > thanks in advance > Mike

Well Mike, go for the Gold. With the price of motherboards, CPUs, and ram being so low, go for the new board/cpu/ram all at once. The Pentium overdrive chips don't work all that well. I have seen posts where guys have some compatability problems with the overdrive chips. BTW, get a p133 or a p166. The p120 (which I have) does not perform that much better than a p100 and the p150 does not perform much better than the p133 (from what I'm told). Hope this helps. John -- +++++++++++++++++++++ Visit the New Ohio Business Directory at: http://www.adgrafix.com/jvoznak/index.html Need a web site??? Visit mine at: http://www.adgrafix.com/info/jvoznak How about some Common Sense??? http://www.netcom.com/~jvoznak

>Well guy's I'm finally ready to do a few upgrades to the old 486 in here >and would like your opinion. Should I get one of those overdrive chips >or just replace the entire motherboard with say a P150 or P166? Also >what kind of 3D accelerator do tou reccomend? Computer mainly used for >Nascar, Indycar 2, NFS, Destruction Derby, MTM, Doom2, etc.. P5-166 or (200 Pro if you can afford it) 32mb of memory (or more) 4gb SCSI hard drive Intergraph Reactor 3D video card SoundBlaster-16 (or AWE-32 if you can afford it) SCSI 6X CD-ROM (8x's aren't trustworthy IMHO) 17-inch monitor with lowest dot pitch you can find (I have a Sony 17sf) I play Quake (Rendition version), ICR2 (Rendition version), NCR1 (and soon Rendition version of NCR2), and Descent on mine, and Win95 and WinNT 4.0 run real sweet on it too. /===================================================\ | John Simmons (Redneck Techno-Biker) | | http://www2.connectnet.com/users/jms/index.html | \===================================================/