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Re: Recommendations for 3D Card?

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From: evilsofa
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 00:00
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In article <39a78d96.7644301@news.poco1.bc.wave.home.com>, 
Biertumpel7974@home.com (JB) wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 14:53:32 GMT, Lawless <lawless@smgfan.com> wrote:
> 
> >I want to get a new 3D card (I'm currently using the Nvidia Ultra TNT
> >2).  I was wondeirng if anyone had any suggestions for a good card
> >since I don't really keep up with 3d news.  I noticed the Voodoo 5500
> >card was out, as well as a new card by Nvidia called the GEForce2
> >which sounds pretty good.  I'll mainly use the card for gaming.
> >
> >Anyone have any suggestions or know of any good web sites that review
> >cards?
> 
> 
> Stick with Nvidia even though the other card is exceptionally well
> designed. Voodoo as a company ticks me off... They came ot with Voodoo
> 1000, 2000, 3000, etc... Why didn't they release the best on instead
> of coming out with all those mediocre ones...

I imagine you're ticked that Intel put out all those 400mhz, 500mhz and 
600mhz Pentium chips before they released the 700mhz chips.  Those 
BASTARDS...

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From: evilsofa <evilsofa@emeraldnet.remove_this_part.net.invalid>
Subject: Re: Recommendations for 3D Card?
Date: 2000/08/26
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