Old School Comparison?

[PermaBanned]

I'm putting together an old PII build for my dad (his laptop melted, kinda needs a PC) and i've put a few parts together. I've got a choice of Graphics Cards:

• ATI Rage Pro 3D - AGP
• Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM - PCI

Which would be better? Thanks.

 

[Biffa]

They are 2d cards so if you just want to display the desktop either will be good, although I think you will be better off for drivers with the Ati card.

Both have drivers up to XP but not Vista or Windows 7 I belive.

I'd say the AGP Rage pro would be a bit better.

 

[Tute]

I'd say the ATI well simply for the fact that it has an AGP slot, lol.

 

[PermaBanned]

They are 2d cards so if you just want to display the desktop either will be good, although I think you will be better off for drivers with the Ati card.

Both have drivers up to XP but not Vista or Windows 7 I belive.

I'd say the AGP Rage pro would be a bit better.

I doubt i'd have much fun running any sort of Windows on the PII (apart from 95/98 of course). So i'm running this:

http://slitaz.org/

 

[icedbullet]

Thats so old skool you may aswell be building that gpu out of Frankincense and Myrrh

 

[jorzeh]

Rage Pro it's Rwar like DinoSaWz.

 

[mame]

Thats so old skool you may aswell be building that gpu out of Frankincense and Myrrh

It is going a bit old isn't it.

My mate sold his 2nd PC a while ago. I think it was an Athlon 64 3000, 1 GB DDR 3200, Nvidia 6200 AGP low-profile, DVD-Writer etc all in a smart, slim quiet case. Running XP, you really couldn't fault it. I think he got £67 for it.

 

[harryohh]

It is going a bit old isn't it.

My mate sold his 2nd PC a while ago. I think it was an Athlon 64 3000, 1 GB DDR 3200, Nvidia 6200 AGP low-profile, DVD-Writer etc all in a smart, slim quiet case. Running XP, you really couldn't fault it. I think he got £67 for it.

I'd take this person's advice.

It'll be an awful experience using a PII.And Linux isn't user friendly either.

You can get an infinetely better system for sub £100 and if he really needs a PC like you say that price shouldn't be a problem.

 

[PermaBanned]

I'd take this person's advice.

It'll be an awful experience using a PII.And Linux isn't user friendly either.

You can get an infinetely better system for sub £100 and if he really needs a PC like you say that price shouldn't be a problem.

Don't knock it 'till you've tried it. For ten (or more) year old hardware running software that was released a few weeks ago it's amazing. For most things it runs just like Ubuntu would on a modern PC. Slitaz is a masterful distribution, easily better than most other Operating Systems and it has a tiny footprint. The OS itself never goes above 5-10% CPU usage, and even browsing with multiple tabs i haven't got the RAM usage over 100MB yet.

Why spend money when i can use spare parts? It's only a temporary solution...

Just need to sort out a few issues (like sound and it not seeing the SWAP partition) and it's good to go.

 

[Ordokai]

To be honest as some else pointed out, both are 2d cards and will perform pretty much the same.

As a personal preference though, I suspect ATI would be better in terms of old drivers.


- Ordokai