There are some older models of STB and Diamond cards that are selling for
well under $100 right now  - like around $50 for some - that are quite good
performers.  However, if he is thinking of trying to speed up his games by
using 3D video, he might instead consider upgrading to a faster CPU.  Many
games these days, including many that could benefit from 3D acceleration,
also require a minimum of a 100MHz CPU.  I've even seen some that require a
133.  And if that is the minimum, it would definitely help to have
something even faster than that ...

At 08:59 AM 10/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>My son wants to buy a new video card for his computer.   He plays games
>often and has some  games which could use 3D hardware.   He would like to
>spend under $100 US.
>AMD K5 - 90MHZ Pentium

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