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Article #659Re: Anyone else cancel their Voodoo3 orders in favor of TNT2?
From: Mike
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 00:00
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ditto, me too -- Mike Please remove the .NOSPAM from my email address when replying check out - www.msu.edu/~tansymic perlow@technologist.com wrote in message <7cm6kp$iaq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>... >After reading several early reviews of the pre-production Diamond V770, >including the one from Tom's hardware guide and CNET, I have finally decided >to cancel on my order (which I have had in a queue for almost 2 months now) >from Electronics Boutique (EBWORLD). > >If the reviews with the beta boards and drivers are on target, and I beleive >that they are, then NVidia has really one-upped 3DFX with their TNT2. Solid >2D performace, Voodoo2 SLI-level 3D perfomance in 16 bit color, as well as >fast 32- bit 3D support and MPEG acceleration as well. I'm sorry, but as much >as I love 3DFX and my voodoo2 SLI, after reading this and current benchmarks >against the Voodoo3 3000, I just had to jump ship this time. > >When 3DFX gets its act together and decides to get aggressive with its chip >designs instead of resting on their laurels, I'll be happy to buy and >recommend another 3DFX product again. This time, my dollars go to NVidia and >Diamond. > >Anyone else cancel their boards from reading the recent reviews? > >Jason Perlow >Contributing Editor >ZD Sm@rt Reseller > > >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,48cc06dcc69bed21 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,48cc06dcc69bed21 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public From: "Mike" <tansymic@pilot.msu.edu.NOSPAM> Subject: Re: Anyone else cancel their Voodoo3 orders in favor of TNT2? Date: 1999/03/16 Message-ID: <cbyH2.1785$LM.3770@news.rdc1.mi.home.com> X-Deja-AN: 455725909 References: <7cm6kp$iaq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news.rdc1.mi.home.com 921612104 24.2.222.81 (Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:21:44 PDT) Organization: @Home Network NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:21:44 PDT Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,3dfx.products.voodoo2