AcceleraPCI Review
The system that the AcceleraPCI was installed
into had the following:
After the installation of the AcceleraPCI,
things were a lot better. Quake 3 was no longer just a slide show like it was
when running on the P150. It was now playable. Speed wise, it's nowhere near as
fast as what it could be. This is because of the video card the system was
running. With no high end video card in the system, the AcceleraPCI was never
able to show how well it could really run Quake. The system would make a good
Quake server. It's really not fast enough to play the newest 3D games on the
market with the Voodoo Banshee.
This shows that your system is only as fast
as its weakest link. In this case, the Banshee is holding the system back. Still
the AcceleraPCI made a remarkable difference. Games that we wouldn't even
consider running on it can now runs at an acceptable frame rate. Games that are
not as video card intensive ran great. I'm sure if I were to add a PCI Voodoo 3
or a PCI TNT2, the performance would skyrocket.
I highly doubt that most people would buy the
AcceleraPCI upgrade kit so they can play games. Let's face it, if you are still
running a P150, games are not what you're into (at least not cutting edge 3D
games). Using the AcceleraPCI with normal business applications like MS Words
and Excel show great speed improvements over a P150. For all intents and
purposes, it acted just like a Celeron 466, which it really is.
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