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Article #618Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?
From: Mike
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 00:00
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And what the hell are you comparing it to? There is no other card that even comes close to it... except 2 - V2 SLI and V3. But those cards are lacking a shit load of features, and have image quality problems, right???????? -- Mike Please remove the .NOSPAM from my email address when replying check out - www.msu.edu/~tansymic Chaotic Origin <7bu1q896t1@news.com> wrote in message news:7df5c7$p5p$1@fir.prod.itd.earthlink.net... > What I don't understand is that the TNT2 is just a faster TNT with AGP 4x > and more memory etc. Does it have new 3d features like hardware bump > mapping, enviroment mapping, full screen anti aliasing, texture compression, > etc.? The TNT-2 will probably be the fastest by 10% or so. I definitely do > not think it is a next generation card, but a faster current generation > card. > > My previous point was that the cards haven't even been shipped yet but > because of Tom a vaporware card is already name the king of 3d. You even say > the words yourself. That is just BS...at least for a few months. Personally, > I rather have a card that is 10-25% slower than the TNT-2 but have cool new > 3d features. > > > Mr. Mojo <5mojo5@airmail.net> wrote in message > > >company. After seeing the Voodoo3 I though "oh crap, they did everything I > >was hopeing they wouldn't do" which is just release a faster version of the > >Banshee. Currently in my mind the TNT2 is the king of the NEXT gen of > cards, > >hopefully 3Dfx takes the next round and all those other companies can go to > >hell. > > > >-- > >Mr. Mojo > > > >
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