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**Benjamin Gawert** · September 29th 07, 04:33 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia

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Am looking for a GeForce 3 to replace an nVidia Riva TNT2 32MB, which is
a stock Dell OEM, Diamond Viper 770. The platform is a dual 500MHz Xeon
workstation with SCSI hard drives..

I have something similar here from old days (HP Kayak XW, 2x XEON
550MHz/2MB, 2GB RAM, Geforce FX 5200). Was a nice setup in 1999, but at
that time it had a whooping ultra-expensive HP VisualizeFX10 gfx card,
the whole setup just kicked ass with WindowsNT 4. The HP gfx card is
still around here somewhere. The computer itself with the FX5200 now
belongs to my son.

still working GREAT, running Win2k
Pro. Application is mainly for FlightSim v8 and v9. Don't expect a lot
more FPS, but more VRAM and hence, more scenery.

What is to be gained in a GeForce3?

Not much. The Geforce3 is outdated.

ANd how much video RAM was
available typically with the GF3?

32MB and 64MB.

Would like 64MB, 128 or even 256MB
if there was such a thing.

Even if there were one, big memory is just useless if the GPU is slow.

Am going to a local computer `show and sale´
this weekend and next. Please comment (serious now - no joke!!)

Serious? Go to a local computer store and buy a current low end gfx card
like a Geforce FX5200 or ATI Radeon 9250 or something like that. More
than sufficient for you dinosaur system.

Benjamin