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Article #443Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?
From: Mike
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 00:00
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It will, Nvidia is working on the AMD optimizations, I'm sure. 3DNOW or what ever the hell it is called. -- Mike Please remove the .NOSPAM from my email address when replying check out - www.msu.edu/~tansymic Thomas Schamer <t.schamer@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:7edpct$9bg$2@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net... > I don't care who Tom's Hardware supports, but you certainly cannot trust his > reviews to be truthful. Anyways, I really don't give a shit anymore which > is faster because they are both VERY fast, fast enough that on games that > are out now, I won't find a noticeable difference in speed ( my problem is > that I have an AMD-K6-2 300, so I won't be able to take full advantage of > the TNT-2. I'm going to overclock it some, and see how much faster > performance can get. Someday I will buy a new processor, though. I just > hope that doesn't have to be soon.). Like you said, if id Software really > thinks 32 bit color and high texture resolutions look that much better, I > want to be one of the guys who has a card that supports these features. I'm > done arguing about speed, though, at least for this round. Although neither > card has come out yet, it is obvious who is going to win- nVidia. I just > hope my processor is strong enough to reap the benefits of the TNT-2. > >
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