🚀 go-pugleaf

On 16 Mar 1999 13:01:04 -0600, Angelo <bogey@cyburban.com-spamsucks-> wrote:
>I am considering to cancel my V3 3500 order but I am gonna wait till both
>products are actually shipping.  Right now they are both vaporware and the
>specs can change at any minute, which they have changed in the past.  I
>don't believe what Tom's hardware guide has to say cause he is not as
>knowledgeable as he thinks he is, he is to biased towards certain products,
>and his methods of testing are all not that great.  After both products do
>ship I may end up with the TNT2 and keep my V2 SLI too.  Hopefully 3Dfx will
>have a better card out before 2000.

I agree that TOM isnt the most knowledged person, but there are plenty of 
previews out there made by others, one good example is www.sharkyextreme.com


And i dont think the hardware will change very much, 3dfx is going to ship
their cards soon, and cant realy make any changes to the hardware, perhaps
change the clockspeed a couple of notches. But as several people have had 
problems running the v3500 cards att full speed i doubt they will run any
faster than 183mhz.

TNT2 will atleast run in 150mhz, that is official, no real upper limit
has been set, they more or less say that their chip can make it higher and
that it is upp to the card manufacturers to decide what speed to use.

The Diamond v770 card tested ran at 175mhz, and the test showed that above
150mhz the speed gain wasnt linear any more, probably because the memory 
begins to limit the rendering speed, so if it runs at 170 or 180 dont 
matter that much.

I am quite sure the TNT2 and v3 vill be equaly fast running 16bit games
with small texture sets with low resolution, start to use more textures
and hihgher resolution on them, and the TNT will speed away.


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