🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 09:22:47 GMT, sixball@mindspring.com (bp) wrote:

>>advised to use a fan.  So fan expenditure for clocking up to the next
>>level board is equal between the 2000 and 3000.
>Damn where do you buy fans at ?
>the next level is all most a 100.00 difference.

What I meant is that to clock either the 2000 or 3000 up to 180 mhz
you're gonna need a fan.  So that 5-10 bucks is equal in both cases if
you're overclocking, therefore it's not like, well to clock the 2000
high it's a few bucks more for the fan, therefore the difference is
even less than $20.... what I'm saying is that the price difference
stays the same if we're talking on an overclocked basis.. the fan is
needed by both.

>Also If it runs as hot as the 3000 the 2000's heatsink isn't going to
>cut it and I'm sure you'll see lots of lockups. 

1. Umm, have you actually run the 2000?
2. Almost every review and response has indicated that the V3-2000's
are 99% percent overclockable to 166 reliably even without a fan.
You've already stepped up to 3000 level performance right there.  With
a fan you can reliably go to 175 in most cases.  Some will go to 180
like mine, but that's the exception.

>>have a monitor capable of 75/85hz at stuff above 1024x1280 or even
>>lower.   In 3D no difference baby.
>So
>some do

I would venture to say that the number of people with really high
performance 19 inch and 17 inch monitors is highly outnumbered by
those who have run of the mill 17 inch monitors and even those who
still have 15 inchers.  We're talking about practicality/value for the
majority here.

>
>I think they're all some damn close in speed that if the 3000 wasn't
>on sale I would have just gone with the 2000. But for 20 bucks I
>figured the pack ins were worth it.

They are.  Except I had them all except for UT (D3 demo is no big
deal), already.  But for many folks the pack-ins (esp. ones as fresh
as these) are worth it.  For others they're no big deal, too many
games to play already. Esp if you are a bad boy and hit up the
binaries newsgroups.