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Article #111Re: Voodoo 2 availability in the UK
From: Mark Powell
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 1057da,8f723c47fc680c70 X-Google-Attributes: gid1057da,public X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,7ec19fb15eb0873 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public X-Google-Thread: 10320c,7ec19fb15eb0873 X-Google-Attributes: gid10320c,public X-Google-Thread: 1063f0,e1cf025b41696c0f X-Google-Attributes: gid1063f0,public From: mark@salfrd.ac.uk (Mark Powell) Subject: Re: Voodoo 2 availability in the UK Date: 2000/01/27 Message-ID: <86ph28$17t3$1@plato.salford.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 578299645 References: <86kf8u$1105$1@plato.salford.ac.uk> <86ndpp$34j$1@rook.le.ac.uk> <86pdkg$17j9$1@plato.salford.ac.uk> <86pgnp$9qr$1@soap.pipex.net> X-Complaints-To: postmaster@salford.ac.uk X-Trace: mimas.salford.ac.uk 948979594 69220 146.87.255.76 (27 Jan 2000 13:26:34 GMT) Organization: Academic Information Services, Salford University, Salford, Manchester, UK NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Jan 2000 13:26:34 GMT Newsgroups: uk.comp.homebuilt,uk.adverts.computer,3dfx.products.voodoo2,3dfx.products.voodoo3