Please recomend a video card for me.

I have a AMD K 6 266 MMX, 36 megs ram, running Windows 98. Please recommend a PCI video card that I can get for under $150. It has to do both 2D and 3D as I do not have a extra slot for a separate 3D card. I have games such as GP2, Power F1, TOCA, and would like to play Tomb Raider 1 & 2. I have been thinking about the ATI Expert 98 [8 meg], and the Diamond Viper 330 [8 meg], I understand that the makers of the monster 3D card is just about to release a combined 2D/3D card [Banshee?] that may fit my price range. I understand that I may not see improvement in GP2 and Power F1 but TOCA and Tomb Raider should benefit from some acceleration. Please E-mail me with a recommendation. Thanks for taking the time! -- James Dean Cory, D.C. http://home1.gte.net/borlando/rs4/drdiff.htm#rs4set ICQ UIN: 2970685

Diamond Viper 330 [8 meg] you're just not going to have problems with it, across the 2d/3d world ! You might want to hold out and wait for the Banshee but i doubt if it will be under $150.00. I wouldn't mind getting the Banshee, myself. I have a Viper (PCI) 330 4 meg with two Diamond monster Voodoo2's (SLI). I'm think of getting the Diamond viper 550. http://www.diamondmm.com/products/tech-specs/viperv550-ts.html Cheers, Dracman http://www.smokeypoint.com/tomb.htm > I have a AMD K 6 266 MMX, 36 megs ram, running Windows 98. Please recommend > a PCI video card that I can get for under $150. It has to do both 2D and 3D > as I do not have a extra slot for a separate 3D card. I have games such as > GP2, Power F1, TOCA, and would like to play Tomb Raider 1 & 2. I have been > thinking about the ATI Expert 98 [8 meg], and the Diamond Viper 330 [8 meg], > I understand that the makers of the monster 3D card is just about to release > a combined 2D/3D card [Banshee?] that may fit my price range. I understand > that I may not see improvement in GP2 and Power F1 but TOCA and Tomb Raider

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> should benefit from some acceleration. Please E-mail me with a > recommendation. > Thanks for taking the time! > -- > James Dean Cory, D.C. > http://home1.gte.net/borlando/rs4/drdiff.htm#rs4set > ICQ UIN: 2970685

recommend >a PCI video card that I can get for under $150. It has to do both 2D and 3D >as I do not have a extra slot for a separate 3D card. I have games such as >GP2, Power F1, TOCA, and would like to play Tomb Raider 1 & 2. I have been >thinking about the ATI Expert 98 [8 meg], and the Diamond Viper 330 [8 meg], >I understand that the makers of the monster 3D card is just about to release

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>a combined 2D/3D card [Banshee?] that may fit my price range. I understand >that I may not see improvement in GP2 and Power F1 but TOCA and Tomb Raider >should benefit from some acceleration. Please E-mail me with a >recommendation. >Thanks for taking the time! >-- >James Dean Cory, D.C. >http://home1.gte.net/borlando/rs4/drdiff.htm#rs4set >ICQ UIN: 2970685

The Voodoo 2 card is the best graphics accelerator but also one of the most expensive, Voodoo 1 still beats most 2D/3D cards. Both TOCA and Tomb Raider will benefit greatly from a Voodoo. For a comprehensive look at graphics cards check out Tom's Hardware page - this guy knows everything there is to know... http://www2.tomshardware.com/ Paul

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> I have a AMD K 6 266 MMX, 36 megs ram, running Windows 98. Please recommend > a PCI video card that I can get for under $150. It has to do both 2D and 3D > as I do not have a extra slot for a separate 3D card. I have games such as > GP2, Power F1, TOCA, and would like to play Tomb Raider 1 & 2. I have been > thinking about the ATI Expert 98 [8 meg], and the Diamond Viper 330 [8 meg], > I understand that the makers of the monster 3D card is just about to release > a combined 2D/3D card [Banshee?] that may fit my price range. I understand > that I may not see improvement in GP2 and Power F1 but TOCA and Tomb Raider > should benefit from some acceleration. Please E-mail me with a > recommendation. > Thanks for taking the time! > -- > James Dean Cory, D.C. > http://home1.gte.net/borlando/rs4/drdiff.htm#rs4set > ICQ UIN: 2970685

Matrox Millenium G200. You won't find a better 2d/3d -card!! Also comes w/ 8 Megs, but is upgradeable up to 16Mb. Check it out at http://www.matrox.com Definitely worth your while!! -- Mikko

I've thrown some links at the bottom of this note. Before you listen to ANYBODY for a recommendation, try each of the sites and see what they have to say about each card. Each of the sites test the cards on a gazillion different games and reports true framerates on each, so you're not getting some sort of invalid benchmark number (Winbench, etc.) but real-world game performance. www.tomshardware.com does a great job of displaying the cards in a graphical format. I'm currently using a Matrox G200 based card (they JUST released the PCI version) and they are about US$120 for an 8MB card. Some of the models have expansion slots for an additional 8MB (US$50) when you're ready for it. You will not believe how devoted some people are to their cards. Take all recommendations with a grain of salt. Even mine... www.tomshardware.com www.anandtech.com www.cyrellis.com www.cpumadness.com

Captains log: StarDate Wed, 16 Sep 1998 14:21:23 -0500. While patrolling "alt.games.tombraider", I received the following message from an entity calling itself ""James Dean Cory, D.C." I'm assuming you have an AGP slot. The diamond stealth G460 would do nicely. Gets great reviews and is well supported. The real 3d card is nice also.

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>I have a AMD K 6 266 MMX, 36 megs ram, running Windows 98. Please recommend >a PCI video card that I can get for under $150. It has to do both 2D and 3D >as I do not have a extra slot for a separate 3D card. I have games such as >GP2, Power F1, TOCA, and would like to play Tomb Raider 1 & 2. I have been >thinking about the ATI Expert 98 [8 meg], and the Diamond Viper 330 [8 meg], >I understand that the makers of the monster 3D card is just about to release >a combined 2D/3D card [Banshee?] that may fit my price range. I understand >that I may not see improvement in GP2 and Power F1 but TOCA and Tomb Raider >should benefit from some acceleration. Please E-mail me with a >recommendation. >Thanks for taking the time! >-- >James Dean Cory, D.C. >http://home1.gte.net/borlando/rs4/drdiff.htm#rs4set >ICQ UIN: 2970685

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Any 3dfx Banshee card. It will do 2d/3dfx Voodoo 3d. Fast <$140.

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>I have a AMD K 6 266 MMX, 36 megs ram, running Windows 98. Please recommend >a PCI video card that I can get for under $150. It has to do both 2D and 3D >as I do not have a extra slot for a separate 3D card. I have games such as >GP2, Power F1, TOCA, and would like to play Tomb Raider 1 & 2. I have been >thinking about the ATI Expert 98 [8 meg], and the Diamond Viper 330 [8 meg], >I understand that the makers of the monster 3D card is just about to release >a combined 2D/3D card [Banshee?] that may fit my price range. I understand >that I may not see improvement in GP2 and Power F1 but TOCA and Tomb Raider >should benefit from some acceleration. Please E-mail me with a >recommendation. >Thanks for taking the time!