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PostIcon Posted on: May 23 2000,16:44  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
y0, fellow hax0rs. i've been thinking about upgrading my 'puter (currently a 300a@450 and TNT-1).

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first i will upgrade the video card to either a voodoo5 5500 (gotta love the price 趦) or a geforce2 256. soon afterwards i will have a 550e or 600e on my BX6-2. i will be overclocking the cpu like crazy, so the AGP bus speeds will be 90+ mhz.

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does anyone know how well the voodoo5 5500 tolerates out of spec agp speeds?
how about the geforce2 gts?
or even the geforce1 DDR?

any help or comments on my upgrade path are appreciated!

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I haven't heard on the 5500 or the GF2, but supposedly the GF1 DDR does pretty well. I have a friend running the Guillemot DDR at 87 just fine.
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I'm too stupid to even know how to overclock my computer, let alone know how something will stand up against it.
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okay who's the arsehole that stole Lizzy's password??

on the topic. will a new 7200 rpm hard drive up my performance noticeably? i have a maxtor 5400 8.4 gig. I'm thinking a new seagate 10.2 gig 7200 would be a good upgrade too

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I highly recommend the RAID mod: http://www.detonate.net/raid/

I've got two IBM 9GB/7200RPM/2MB Buffer/8.5ms seek drives running RAID 0 and it is SWEET.

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I'm just not a l33t h4x0r like some of you!
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Do the Promise Ultra66 cards that they sell in the stores now work? did they fix that little bug yet?(not a feature)

i think i'll do that, then save up for a gf2 gts or a voodoo5 5500

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It's not a bug, rather the Promise controller is the same as their RAID controller, with one pinout difference. Same exact card, otherwise. They did try to change the BIOS, however there are ways around it, if you search around a bit.
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Definitely. If it's an older 5400, you'll see a difference in seek times as well. Windows will load up faster, and everything will just be overall more responsive.
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Geforce 2 GTS all the way, baby! It's the sweetest card I ever owned, and it runs quite cool, 93 degrees according to the monitoring program that came with it. It is stable all the way up to the max you can overclock it, and it is awesome to play Quake III Arena at 1600x1200x32bpp and still get between 30 and 60 frames per second (What my old Fury used to get at 640x480). DVD is quite good as well, although not as nice as ATI or a standalone decoder card, but I can live with that. I am overclocking my system (89MHz AGP bus speed) and the Geforce takes it just fine.
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