Dave:  The Cyrix chips have a relatively "weak" floating point unit,
making them a poor choice for 3D games such as Quake.  An ideal,
inexpensive upgrade would be to an AMD K6-2 chip (300 MHZ is available
at 66 MHZ, so you don't have to upgrade the mobo) and either the
Banshee, or a 12 MB Voodoo 2 add-on card.  An optimized 3Dnow! patch for
Quake is available, which gives the K6-2 "Pentium2" perfomance in this
game.  Additionally 3DFX has released 3DNOW! enhanced drivers for the
Voodoo2 add-ons.

My advice-1st the processor, and shortly thereafter the vidcard shortly
thereafter, the Virge is a relatively poor 3D game renderer.

Dan Shaughnessy

> 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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