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Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?

#507
From: Thomas Schamer
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 00:00
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Bad picture quality????? How about unnoticeably less picture quality?
(At least on current games)
Mike <tansymic@pilot.msu.edu.NOSPAM> wrote in message
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> tnt=slow, good picture quality
> sli = fast, bad picture quality
>
> you have nothin
>
> shhhhhhhhhhhhh
>
>
>
> --
>
> Mike
>
> Please remove the .NOSPAM from my email address when replying
>
> check out - www.msu.edu/~tansymic
>
> Machiavellian <rruss@ameritech.net> wrote in message
> news:rDBN2.29199$Ll.3649@nntp0.detroit.mi.ameritech.net...
> >
> > Mike <tansymic@pilot.msu.edu.NOSPAM> wrote in message
> > news:M_nN2.3945$LM.7798@news.rdc1.mi.home.com...
> > >Get the fuck outta here! You would take a G400 or Perm3 over
> > >TNT2!!!!!!???????
> >
> > OK, Mike let me explain something to you.  What is the TNT 2 offering
that
> I
> > do not already have in my setup.  The TNT 2 offers nothing but speed
which
> > my SLI setup does quite fine.  I already have a TNT and since the TNT 2
> > looks exactly the same, its worthless to me.  The G400 and the Permedia
3
> > offer improved image quality than the TNT 2.  If the Permedia 3 and G400
> can
> > obtain the speed of a 125/150 clocked TNT 2, those cards look to be more
a
> > 3rd gen card than the TNT 2.  The TNT 2 is just a overclocked TNT just
> like
> > the V3 and its not worthy of a upgrade.  Neither the V3 nor the TNT 2
> offer
> > anything new to my setup and for the time they will be on top is quite
> > small.  There are a lot of games I want to play that will have
> environmental
> > bumpmapping coming out real soon and since the TNT 2 does not support
this
> > feature well you know.....
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Thomas Schamer" <t.schamer@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?
Date: 1999/04/04
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