What's better, CPU or 3D video?

[cdoerbec at cso.fmr.com (Christoph Doerbeck A242369)]

Greetings folks,

I want to upgrade my game system to improve my frames-per-second
when playing Quake III Arena.  I'm currently running a overclocked
celeron 266 (@ 400MHZ) with a Voodoo3/2000 and getting roughly 41 fps.
It's playable, but I have to turn off a bunch of features...

The other day, I borrowed a PIII 500 and got roughly 56 fps with the
same configuration.

My question is, would my money be better spent getting a nVida GeForce GTS
or a faster CPU.  Both appear to be in the $100 - $150 range.  By faster
CPU I'm inferring a >700 MHz celeron with a Slocket.  I have a slot-1
MB.

Anyone with any personal experience / recommendations?  By the way,
every solution MUST BE LINUX compatible.  I don't do windows...

- Christoph


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