Ian,
Rather than direct you to the web for tech specs, let me give you my own
experience with banshees.  I had 2 different Voodoo Banshees.  Nice cards
with _hardware_ 3DFX support.  About 4 years ago, this enabled several games
that supported that mode of 3d effects to run on celerons I put on BX
chipset motherboards so I could overclock them a little, to about 500 mhz.
If the user does not need to specifically support a game that prefers
hardware 3dfx, then the existing video on the motherboard will certainly be
better and faster.  My cards gather dust now since the much faster cpus of
today can run the graphics routines in software, most of my old 3dfx games
can be configured for software emulation of the special 3d hardware and that
provides just as good a gaming experience.  I know of only one game of mine
that won't play on an nvidia based onboard graphics chip, for instance, as
it was sold to run only on the various versions of Voodoo cards and says so
on the box.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 2:05 AM

A customer has been given a graphics card for his W98SE system and wants me
to install it for him.  My problem is that I don't know that he'll be any
better off if I do this.

His system has a late model Gigabyte mobo with a VIA KM400 chipset and 32Mb
of onboard graphics.  It also has an AGP slot for an added card which
supports 8x\4x\2x (1.5v).

The guy who gave him the card says that his own W98 system recognised it as
a '3DFX Voodoo Banshee' but couldn't tell him anything else about it.  So I
don't know if it's even a 2x AGP.

Can anyone tell me how to find out how much ram this card carries?  It has
no brand name but I notice it has 8 identical chips on it.  They're all
marked; NEC JAPAN  D4811650GF-A10-9BT  9849K9017.

Ian Porter

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