Re: Recommendations for 3D Card?

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From: pblonde2
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 00:00

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Your TNT2 should be more than adequate, but if you simply must have the best, go
with the Voodoo5 5500 (as EQ was written for the 3Dfx GLide graphics language)
or the GeForce. The GeForce2 is hampered by the fact that its memory cannot keep
up with its processor, and do you really want to be replacing expensive video
memory 3 months down the road?

For a review of graphics boards, and especially the dirst on the GeForce2, go
to:

www.tomshardware.com

Paul

P.S.: If your power supply is anything less than 250W don't bother with any
GeForce, you haven't got enough juice. If you have lots of cards in your
computer and/or more than the basic 1 CD/1 HD/1 floppy for drives, you want
something more in the 300W range. I don't know about the power requirements of
the 3Dfx boards but I bet they're up there.

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