Re: Recommendations for 3D Card?

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

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Unfortunately, the TNT 2 card will not work with my new ATI video
capture card, which I HAVE to use for business. Only way it works is
with 2.53 drivers or something, which are like 2 years old.  I don't
want to sacrifice my Detonator drivers to use an ATI card because of a
problem that ATI or Nvidia won't fix.

pblonde2 wrote:
> 
> 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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From: Lawless <lawless@smgfan.com>
Subject: Re: Recommendations for 3D Card?
Date: 2000/07/03
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