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In article <876583692.1833@dejanews.com>, mmkc@ace-net.com.au wrote:
>hello,
>  Does anyone know which graphics card has the best quality of 2D and an
>OK quality of 3D?
>
>please reply via e-mail as well
>
>thanx

The new Riva 128 cards by Diamond, STB and ASUS test with high 
benchmarks. In real world applications, they still suffer from 
immaturity. The drivers are still pretty shaky at this point. If you 
are willing to pay more, the 2D performance of the new Number 9 
Revolution blows away everything out there, is rock stable with high 
refresh at high resolutions, and excellent color fidelity and display. 
It's 3D performance is criticized by serious gamers as slower than 
the best 3D cards, but it is still better than a lot of cards out 
there. Comes with anywhere from 4 to 16MB RAM, and in both PCI and AGP 
versions. It costs about $50US more than a Matrox Millenium II with 
the same amount of RAM. The new ATI Rage Pro looks like it is going to 
be a killer when it ships -- much better than previous versions and 
quite competitive with the Riva cards.

So, it's not a clear choice right now. A lot of discussion of the 
Riva-based cards in the newsgroups, but if you don't want flaky 
drivers and don't want to spend the extra bucks for a Number 9 right 
now, personally, I'd wait a bit longer. Everyone will have their new 
cards out and drivers improved for the Christmas buying season. There 
will be hot competition between some very good cards by late November.

David

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David N. King                                 dking@amphissa.com
"There is no comfort in accurate measurement of the irrelevant."