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Old September 30th 07, 04:28 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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Default Looking for a GeForce 3

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:33:22 +0200, Benjamin Gawert
brought the following to our attention:

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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..


Here's a view:
http://home.comcast.net/~g-abbey/drive_box.jpg

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.


What are you going to do with the HP card?

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 The Geforce3 is outdated.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.


I think you're right. I had a 64MB GeForce3 for about a week and was so
focused on frame-rate, and oblivious to scenery range detail, that it go
returned. No increase in framerate going from 32MB TNT2 to 64MB GF3.

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.


Ok.. will be checking into that. And the AGP 1.0 slot will be ok? As
stated, lots of VRAM may put a great load on the 500MHz CPUs.
Please comment further.

-G

Benjamin