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Re: Voodoo 2 availability in the UK

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From: Mark Powell
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <86pgnp$9qr$1@soap.pipex.net>,
Geoff Winkless <geoff-at-farmline-dot-com@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>"Mark Powell" <mark@salfrd.ac.uk> wrote in message
>news:86pdkg$17j9$1@plato.salford.ac.uk...
>> 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.
>
>remember that the velocity 100 also doesn't have a tv-out.

Not all V3 2000 or 3000s have a TV-out now. Cheaper ones are available
without. I've got a TV-out on my V3 3000, but never used it. Nice
facility, but I'd rather not pay �40 for it :)

-- 
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)
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From: mark@salfrd.ac.uk (Mark Powell)
Subject: Re: Voodoo 2 availability in the UK
Date: 2000/01/27
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