Recommended accelerators?
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Hi,
I have enjoyed browsing the tutorials on nehe.gamedev.net and would like to start using openGL. I have been programming in C for a few years and have done 3d applications with Allegro, but openGL is clearly much better.
Whenever I run openGL applications on my computer thay are very slow, as I have an old computer with no accelerator card. I dont have much money to upgrade my computer, so I was wondering which card you would recommend I get for some opelGL programming. If you know where I can pick one up second hand, so much the better. I have heard that the common 3dfx is not recommended for this sort of thing, so what would suit my system best, it has:
Pentium 200 MMX
64 Mb RAM
Mtrox Mystique 4mb video card.
Get an Nvidia-based card.
Considering your CPU speed, I would recommend an older card, such as one based on the TNT or TNT2 chipset (e.g. Diamond Viper V550 or V770). You can probably get one for a very good price.
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Martee
http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~mdill
Considering your CPU speed, I would recommend an older card, such as one based on the TNT or TNT2 chipset (e.g. Diamond Viper V550 or V770). You can probably get one for a very good price.
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Martee
http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~mdill
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Do those Diamond viper's come with in PCI? My computer has no AGP slots.
If not, do you have any other good examples which do?
Edited by - bakery2k1 on April 24, 2001 7:15:55 PM
If not, do you have any other good examples which do?
Edited by - bakery2k1 on April 24, 2001 7:15:55 PM
I know the V550 does, and I am pretty sure the V770 does too.
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Martee
http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~mdill
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Martee
http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~mdill
quote:Original post by bakery2k1
Hi,
I have enjoyed browsing the tutorials on nehe.gamedev.net and would like to start using openGL. I have been programming in C for a few years and have done 3d applications with Allegro, but openGL is clearly much better.
Whenever I run openGL applications on my computer thay are very slow, as I have an old computer with no accelerator card. I dont have much money to upgrade my computer, so I was wondering which card you would recommend I get for some opelGL programming. If you know where I can pick one up second hand, so much the better. I have heard that the common 3dfx is not recommended for this sort of thing, so what would suit my system best, it has:
Pentium 200 MMX
64 Mb RAM
Mtrox Mystique 4mb video card.
Radeon SDR PCI.
I know that the Geforce 2 MX has some (I''m not sure how common) PCI versions out there. The lowest price on the AGP version I''ve seen is $75, and it is good enough to last you through an upgrade to your other hardware.
Off Topic: Duron''s and Socket-A motherboards are very cheap
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Off Topic: Duron''s and Socket-A motherboards are very cheap
. "Finger to spiritual emptiness underlying everything." -- How a C manual referred to a "pointer to void." --Things People Said
http://druidgames.cjb.net/
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