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Well Greg, it really depends on what you are wowed by.  Like for instance,
if you like to use 3DsMax and programs like it every now and then, along
with playing mad 3D games then, you might like the upcoming Permedia 3.
Considering it has tons of supported features along with Multitexturing I
think it will be a great card. (It will be on store shelves by summer).   On
the other hand, There is the upcoming Rendition v3000 chip (called the
Redline chip), I don't think this will wow you much but, it might still give
you a good jostle.
Then of course we have some others like the TNT2, V2, Ark Logic's Tiger3D (I
doubt this will ever get put out, it should've been out a long time ago, now
it won't wow anyone.), PowerVR's new chip whatever it is called, along with
a few others.

But, seriously, the way it pretty much works is, if you have had a chip made
by say 3Dfx, any new one won't excite you as much as when you got that old
one.

It's like getting a big cookie, you are like "Kick ass! A giant cookie!" the
first time, but then as they get bigger and bigger you are just expecting
the same tasting cookie, just a little bigger.

Nowadays, the only thing that would WOW a person would be True Color
rendering, Bump Mapping, True MultiTexturing, upto 32MB SGRam memory (not
with a set size on Frame buffer + texture memory!), A fast clock rate,
Geometry processor, higher visual quality and a few other niceties...  In
other words, don't get your hopes up for a WOW too soon. But, if Permedia 3
is all 3Dlabs says it is (they don't usually lie, they are a very good
company, you can trust them, they're nice people...) then it should be a
good wow for most people. But, I guess we'll have to wait and find out.


Greg Searles <gsearles@is2.dal.ca> wrote in message
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>
> OK, so I'm a pitiful hardware junkie...
> I got into reminiscing about the excitement we had getting Voodoo 2's
> in a few recent threads. I remember the same feeling when I got my
> first 3D accelerator, a Rendition Verite 1000, and later a Voodoo.
>
> I don't feel anything coming up soon will cause the same excitement.
> The progess just seems to be slowing down.  I guess that's why V3 is
> disapointing to me, just not much of a step forward.  Care to
> speculate on when we might see another HUGE jump, and what product
> that might be?
>
>
>
> Greg Searles
> gsearles@is2.dal.ca
>
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