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Article #709Re: Sunday Best Buy Ad - STB 4400!
From: dibbler
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:00
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Rich wrote in message <3675B49E.668B@interaccess.com>... >Catch the Best Buy Ad in Sundays paper! They are selling the STB 4400 >Velocity TNT (16 meg) AGP or PCI for $129.99 (retail not OEM)! Thought >that was a good price, best I saw on the internet was for 128 (OEM). > >Went to pick one up today, of course sold out, but were giving rain >checks! Another best buy had them in stock but was too far away (30 >miles). Got my rain check. Had rain checks before from best buy and >they always came thru. Clerk said more were coming in, in the next >couple of days. > >I guess I will wait a few days before I take my rain check & ad to >another store, were they do price matches. > >I currently have a viper 330 4 meg agp & a Voodoo2 (8 meg). The viper >has been fair but the latest drivers have been messing my MS Works & >Publisher 98 programs. Was looking at other cards around $100 bucks but >thought ...why not the STB 4400. Thought for a few bucks more it would >give me a decent work & gaming setup. > >Only have a PII266 & 64 megs, but a good Mitsubishi 87TXM monitor. >Anyone using a diamond monster voodoo2 & an STB 4400 together? Any >comments or conflicts? No conflicts here. My M3D2 12MB is still faster than my 4400 for 3D though. I have a PII266 with 128MB.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,97de395952e82f54 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public X-Google-Thread: 113685,97de395952e82f54 X-Google-Attributes: gid113685,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,97de395952e82f54 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public From: "dibbler" <dibbler@NOSPAMverinet.com> Subject: Re: Sunday Best Buy Ad - STB 4400! Date: 1998/12/15 Message-ID: <qjpd2.13$w3.170258432@news.frii.net> X-Deja-AN: 422422955 References: <3675B49E.668B@interaccess.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verinet.com X-Trace: news.frii.net 913711446 199.45.181.170 (Tue, 15 Dec 1998 01:44:06 MST) Organization: Verinet Communications, Inc. (970/224-5551) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 01:44:06 MST Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,alt.games.quake2,3dfx.products.voodoo2