🚀 go-pugleaf

Being the king has more to do with public opinion than with real world
performance. Currently 3Dfx is the king of 3D gaming, do they have the best
all-around card? Not really, the image quality of the voodoo2 is lacking and
it doesn't destroy the other cards in every benchmark. But guess what card
is in my system? yup a voodoo2, which  bought because I respected 3Dfx as a
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

"And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on;
and so did I."
Chaotic Origin <7bu1q896t1@news.com> wrote in message
<7de5eh$618$1@fir.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
>When you hype one board declaring it "king of 3d cards" before nVidia
>releases official specs, finishing drivers and any other companies
releasing
>official specs like whether or not 175mhz is the final clockrate, I *do*
>think it is mostly Tom's fault. If you ever read his CeBIT blurb you would
>obviously see his bias against 3dfx. Compare that to another CeBIT report
>like the one at 3d Concepts.
>
>Also, if you look at Tom's CeBit Blurb you would have seen the beta
>benchmarks for the PowerVR 250 Neon which got 49fps in 1024x768 Q2 Crusher
>demo verses the Ultra TNT2's 50fps or so. I don't think Crusher demo is a
>good 3d test but that is another issue. I think that it obviously proves
>that it is too premature to declare a king when there are several promising
>cards in the near future.
>
>
>Mr. Mojo <5mojo5@airmail.net> wrote in message
><52F6ECA1A90D5450.1A1EA646BC48AB1D.E55D8869CC4050E0@library-proxy.airnews.n
e
>t>...
>>Thats Tom's fault? I thought it was because most of the other cards you
>>mentioned were gonna get their ass kicked by the TNT2/Voodoo 3. Nivida and
>>3dFX are the only two companies who have religious followings (since all
>the
>>other ones have been useless up until now) so they are the ones that get
>the
>>most hype. Lets see, Power VR: First card blew absolute chunks and next
one
>>is extremely late, Matrox g400: So far they have yet to make a video card
>>thats not underpowered, S3 Savage 4: hahah S3, they have a bad rep to
>>overcome with that crap they used to sell, 3Dlabs Permedia3: Great 3D app
>>performance, bad game performance.
>>
>>--
>>Mr. Mojo
>
>
>
>