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In article <86ndpp$34j$1@rook.le.ac.uk>,
Chen-Pang Wong <cpw2@le***REMOVE-THIS****ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <86mvkq$13nr$1@plato.salford.ac.uk>, mark@salfrd.ac.uk (Mark Powell) wrote:
>>To rather sadly follow-up my own thread. The asking prices for these
>>things currently are high. All the cards I've seen advertised are �40 or
>>�50. A new V3 1000 costs �42 and is considerably faster. I'll just have to
>>wait 'till these people drop their prices or I see a cheap one at a fair.
>>I was expecting to pay no more than �20-�25 <sigh>
>
>Then why don't you sell your single Voodoo2 + 2D card and get a new V3 
>1000 instead? I've read that these 1000 babies are as fast as their 
>bigger brothers at lower resolutions....

Because the machine I'm using doesn't have an AGP slot. The V3 1000 is a
V3 2000 with 8MB of SGRAM (instead of 16MB of SDRAM) and one texture unit
turned off, in software, when using the Glide and OpenGL drivers. A
registry key can be used to turn the texture unit back on, which makes the
card just as fast as a V3 2000 and in some cases even slightly faster. It
can't go to as high res., but who's machine can really get decent framerates
above 1024x768? For �38 inc. (Micro Mart) they are a snip.

-- 
Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - Clifford Whitworth Building
A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK.
Tel: +44 161 295 5936  Fax: +44 161 295 5888  www.pgp.com for PGP key
M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me)