[geeks] Recommendations?

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> I am going to upgrade the video board in my Dual Pentium Pro 200 1MB
> (512MB ECC) from a Nvidia Riva TNT (1) 16MB to something a lot newer,
>
> I was looking for recommendations of a good card for all around
> performance.  Most important to least important:
>
> 1. Works with as many OS's as possible (specifically FreeBSD and Win2K)
> 2. Is great for games (this is the real reason I'm buying the card...
> I've got a lot of lag and poor performance in some of the newer games
> when I pump the detail up.  I'd like to max out detail and have only the
> CPU be the bottleneck)
>
> I'm not a hardcore gamer, but I like to pay for quality #1, and #2 this
> is mainly for the girlfriend.
> (Diablo II, Baldur's Gate 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, NOLF, etc.)
> Good for both DirectEcch and GL.
>
> I was looking at several.
>
> ATI has a Radeon 7000 or something like that (PCI) (I only have PCI)
>
> or the 64MB DDR Hercules card.

ATI's cards are always good, as are 3DLabs or Matrox.

Peace...  Sridhar