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Article #273Re: Desparately Seeking Kevorkian or Need Advice in Choosing a 3D Card
From: Lugy
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:00
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It appears that you've firmly won me over into the 3DFX camp. The only problem here remains choosing a 3DFX card. Currently, the Canopus Pure 3D 6 meg card seems to be the 3DFX card with greatest ram which supposedly translates into faster, smoother, better game play. On another interesting note, rumors of Voodoo2 cards (Diamond Monster2 and Orchid Outrageous) being released soon are amuck within the relative newsgroups. However, just what makes a Voodoo2 beter than a Voodoo1? According to the rumor mill, these cards supposedly can run twice as fast when 2 Voodoo2 cards are employed on a motherboard. Yet, investing in 2 cards isn't too economically sound in my case in an effort to get better 3D card performance. Is the dual card, dual processing capability, the only advantage of Voodoo2 cards? Or, do these cards also feature 6 meg or more RAM? One more thing, does the Voodoo2 use external cables again or has it been redesigned to use the PCI bus (I hope so)? In article <341e6164.246056234@news.demon.co.uk>, ale@dynaman.demon.co.uk wrote: > This will probably be alleviated with cards that have 6 megs or when > we are all using AGP.. ;-)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107aee,fdd64c4aaad182c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid107aee,public X-Google-Thread: 100389,fdd64c4aaad182c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid100389,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,fdd64c4aaad182c1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: 10488e,fdd64c4aaad182c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid10488e,public X-Google-Thread: f8c8b,fdd64c4aaad182c1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c8b,public X-Google-Thread: 10a47c,fdd64c4aaad182c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a47c,public X-Google-Thread: 100291,fdd64c4aaad182c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid100291,public From: lugy@loop.edu (Lugy) Subject: Re: Desparately Seeking Kevorkian or Need Advice in Choosing a 3D Card Date: 1997/09/16 Message-ID: <lugy-ya02408000R1609971111090001@news.loop.com> X-Deja-AN: 273034664 References: <lugy-ya02408000R1509970759420001@news.loop.com> <341d5c8c.179269708@news.demon.co.uk> <3422a144.3664734@NEWS.DEMON.CO.UK> <341e6164.246056234@news.demon.co.uk> Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,alt.games.quake,3dfx.game.glquake,3dfx.oem.products.diamond.monster3d,3dfx.oem.products.orchid.righteous3d,3dfx.products,3dfx.opengl