Personally, I'd junk the Cyrix chip and buy an Intel PII
333MMX, assuming the system can handle it.  It's more
expensive, but they'll notice much better speed than with
Cyrix chips.  If you couple this with the video card
upgrade, Quake shouldn't suck any more.

Dave Perry wrote:
>
> My boys have a Cyrix 233 chip in their computer. They play alot of video
> games on it and are frustrated with how slow it is. Apparently it sucks
> with QuakeII !!!!
>
> They are considering spending their xmas money on a 300mmx Cyrix. I'm
> wondering whether they will notice much performance gain for their money.
> They have a 4MB S3 Virge video card and ideally they would prefer a Voodoo
> card of some sought. I put a 16mb Voodoo Banshee in their 233mmx the other
> day just for trial purposes and they didnt notice a great deal of
> performance difference. So, I've suggested they get a faster processor
> first and then maybe the expensive Banshee later. Has anyone some thoughts
> on these points???
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