JohnnyOmar Posted April 3, 2001 Share Posted April 3, 2001 I am going to upgrade my video board. I have an older (but still works great) Cyrix 166 chip with 48 meg of RAM and a 4meg video board. I am looking for help in picking a compatible mid price video board. That way I will not have problems with CM later on. Any suggestions?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted April 4, 2001 Share Posted April 4, 2001 Unfortunately your CPU is a bit underpowered to take advantage of the latest video cards. You'll most likely be limited to PCI cards with your current motherboard. With questions about how the Voodoo series performs with CM (display capabilities and other issues), a safe recommendation would be a NVidia-based video card. A TNT2 PCI w/16 or 32Mb of RAM or a GeForceMX PCI should work. If you upgrade, then either of these video cards will continue to work (though they won't have the benefits of an AGP card). There is a possibility however of problems with the driver. Some installations may balk at your CPU's speed during driver installation. You may be able to complete the installation or you may not. I'd suggest making sure that there is a good return/exchange policy on anything you buy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyOmar Posted April 4, 2001 Author Share Posted April 4, 2001 Mucho thanks for the info. This should help. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted April 8, 2001 Share Posted April 8, 2001 Unfortunately Schrullenhaft is correct. Your CPU is, umm, how should I put it? ANCIENT. Actually you'd do yourself a favor if you'd just upgrade your machine. That Cyrix 166 chip ain't good for much these days. I just went to a 1.2Ghz machine for a little over $1100. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMcGuire Posted April 8, 2001 Share Posted April 8, 2001 Considering how old/slow that CPU is, you could buy a much faster CPU and a motherboard with on-board video (essentially no extra cost), all for about the same you'd pay for a half-decent video card, figure around $250 or so for some kind of P3 in the 450MHz range -- not blazing, but way faster than what you're running now. You can always spring for an AGP card a little later. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viceroy Posted April 8, 2001 Share Posted April 8, 2001 JohnnyOmar, I recently upgraded from a 200MMX to a TB 1Ghz 256mb Ge 2MX :cool: And I couldn't be happier. Now I can run CM in all its glory. Well worth every penny. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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