[H-GEN] Wanted to buy

[Frank Brand]

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>Also I have a young school aged friend converting from Macintosh to Linux
>and he has managed to collect most of the bits he needs for a gaming system
>he wants to impress his Windoze mates with (based on an old 200mhz
>motherboard his uncle passed onto him.  He has his heart set on a voodoo 3
>card with 16mb. Being a Macophile myself and only having used basic S3
>compatible video cards in the two boxes I've been experimenting on I don't
>know if a spare one of those I have will suit his needs. Again anyone have
>such a spare card lying around?


An old P200 will have PCI slots. For late model gaming the S3 card will be
severely constrained as, if it is a Trio 64 type it will probably be limited
to 2 Mb Video RAM. If it is a Virge it may support 4 Mb...neither would
excite current gamers.

This is probably going to be a difficult situation to resolve. Most people I
know with better PCI cards are a bit loath to give them up and good PCI
cards now are quite hard to find on second hand markets...new they attract a
premium over AGP cards usually.

Frank Brand


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