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Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?

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From: Mike
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????????

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Mike

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Chaotic Origin <7bu1q896t1@news.com> wrote in message
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> 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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From: "Mike" <tansymic@pilot.msu.edu.NOSPAM>
Subject: Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?
Date: 1999/03/26
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