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Article #357Re: Topic: What's today's best 2D card + 3D card combination for gaming?!!!
From: q2
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:00
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if you're gonna get anything higher than a P3-450 make sure you buy a G400. it is the fastest and most fully featured card out today and it runs circles around everyone when used on a high end system. if you're gonna spend that kind of money on a new system, then get a G400 Is ping7678@ping.be wrote: > > Hi, > > I am about to get myself a new computer (it will be a 500Mhz I think) > esp. for playing all the latest games and I am trying to figger out what > graphic card(s) to get. I have 2 questions: > > 1/ is it still best to go with 2 separate cards (a 2D and a 3D card)? If > so, I think I would get a Voodoo II or III card as my 3D card, cause it > still seems the card most compatible with games I would like to buy, but > I don't know which brand is best?!!. Also, which 2D card would best fit > with the Voodoo card you suggest?! > > 2/ or will a 2D/3D card be equally good, and if so, which is the leader > here? > > PS: should I buy AGP or PCI cards? > > PS2: is it true that if you use a 3D card like Voodoo 2, this can > distort your 2D card in higher resolutions? what's the story and is > there anything you can do about this? > > Any good suggestions are very welcome!! Thanks alot!! > > Greetings, > > Luc. -- How many of you believe in telekenesis? raise my hand.... Is/Q2
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11094b,c972bceece4e52de X-Google-Attributes: gid11094b,public X-Google-Thread: 10320c,c972bceece4e52de X-Google-Attributes: gid10320c,public X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,c972bceece4e52de X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,c972bceece4e52de X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public From: q2 <avonne@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Topic: What's today's best 2D card + 3D card combination for gaming?!!! Date: 1999/07/20 Message-ID: <37947D07.C3A1DEE7@hotmail.com> X-Deja-AN: 503125583 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <378D7997.791E228@ping.be> X-Accept-Language: en X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-ELN-Date: 20 Jul 1999 13:44:01 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Tue Jul 20 06:45:15 1999 Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,alt.games.3dfx,3dfx.products.voodoo2,3dfx.products.voodoo3