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Phil Webb wrote in message ...
>In article <3684F0C1.7F58BD21@pontyraled.freeserve.co.uk>,
>BrucieMoose@pontyraled.freeserve.co.uk says...
>> Okay, okay. Does anybody know what *the best* 3D accelerator is? There
>> must be one, surely? Or, does the performance of a 3D card depend on the
>> system it's running on?
>
>Of course it depends on the rest of the systems components, but it also
>depends on your criteria for devising the *BesT* 3D accelerator. For
>Quake and other GLide based games, Voodoo2 is still unsurpassed
>speedwise, given a hefty enough CPU, but TNT is not far behind, and has a
>better quality of image, will support higher resolutions, 3D in a window,
>and will even outrun the V2 on some DirectX based games.
>
>Both is prolly the best option, TNT as a primary card, coupled up to a
>couple of V2's  8^�

Agreed, I have a Creative v2 12mb and an STB TNT card.
The Voodoo2 with lots of tweeking gets me 146fps at 512x384 with the latest
minigl driver and creative drivers. My TNT give me 110 fps at the same res.
Hovever with direct x stuff, the TNT offers almost as good fps's as the
voodoo, but with much better image quality, and the ability to run at much
higher resolutions.

Despite what many may say, IMO fps is everything, and you really need a card
that can perform at at least 60fps in most situations.

My system at present :-
P2 400
128mb sdram
12 mb C Labs V2
Stb 4400 TNT
17" Iiyama monitor

I have the refresh rates of the monitor set to 120 hz when running quake,
and v sync off.

Dave Raman
AKA
Easy Frag