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Article #637Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither?
From: Tim McKillican
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:00
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Is it worth keeping the V2 for Glide only games, when I'm cashed strapped as it is? I could get $100 cdn for the V2, making the TNT2 a lot cheaper. Pedro Lami wrote: > > Get the TnT2 and keep the V2 > > On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 06:01:37 GMT, Tim McKillican > <timmck@NOSPAMhome.com> took some time away from whatever he/she was > doing and wrotf: > > >Hi, > > > >I have a P2-300 w/ 64 megs of RAM with a CL Voodoo2 8 meg. I'm trying > >to decide whether it'd be worth it to upgrade to a TNT2 or a V3. Is my > >system fast enough to make an upgrade worth it? Would the 32-bit > >support of the TNT2 run fast enough to actually use it over 16-bit? The > >main game I will be playing in the future is TFC for Halflife, since I > >am a hardcore TF1 clan player, and I think that everyone will move over > >to TFC. Would a new video card boost my performance in Halflife enough > >to get rid of my V2 and add a TNT2 or V3? I already have someone that > >is willing to buy my V2 for $100 cdn. And if it is worthwhile, which > >card should I get? I plan on upgrading my processor sometime around > >Christmas when the next generation of Intel chips roll after (post P3). > > > >Thanks for your help, > >Tim > >(remove NOSPAM if you wish to email me)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,3bf2e229bc16fa8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,3bf2e229bc16fa8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public From: Tim McKillican <timmck@NOSPAMhome.com> Subject: Re: TNT2 or Voodoo3 or neither? Date: 1999/03/25 Message-ID: <36FA9EA0.9045C2D8@NOSPAMhome.com> X-Deja-AN: 459080088 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <36F9D174.626A9661@NOSPAMhome.com> <36fa4bf0.4990043@news.telepac.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news.rdc1.on.wave.home.com 922394227 24.112.55.227 (Thu, 25 Mar 1999 12:37:07 PST) Organization: @Home Network MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 12:37:07 PST Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,3dfx.products.voodoo2