can buy so I won't have to update it too soon and aswell that I want optimum
performance.
I don't want one that has great graphics but other bits suck like the speed
or vise versa.
Just what is the best one as I total package?
TIA.
I don't want one that has great graphics but other bits suck like the speed
or vise versa.
Just what is the best one as I total package?
TIA.
Pair of Voodoo 2's in SLI mode. Dunno if one brand is better
than the other. When in doubt go with a big name for support and
drivers.
Assuming you are going to buy a Pentium 2 and are looking at a 3Dfx
Voodoo2 card.
Almost ALL the cards are the same reference design that 3Dfx developed
the card with. If you look at them side by side, they are almost all
identical. The things that differ might be the brand of memory they
use and various logos etc.
The only ones which are really different are the Canopus cards, which
are shorter, and feature things like onboard fans for the chips and
TV-Out capability.
If you're not fussed with all the extra bits like TVOut etc, just find
a cheap Voodoo2, and use the 3Dfx reference drivers (which all the
manufacturers use for their drivers too).
If you benchmark all the Voodoo2 cards, you will find almost no
performance difference between them, and when you do find a
difference, you would never see it in normal game play.
--
Nathan Wong http://www.nectar.com.au/~alfacors
- Super Touring - Alfa Romeo -
- V8Supercars - CART -
>>I don't want one that has great graphics but other bits suck like the
speed
>>or vise versa.
>>Just what is the best one as I total package?
>>TIA.
>Assuming you are going to buy a Pentium 2 and are looking at a 3Dfx
>Voodoo2 card.
>Almost ALL the cards are the same reference design that 3Dfx developed
>the card with. If you look at them side by side, they are almost all
>identical. The things that differ might be the brand of memory they
>use and various logos etc.
>The only ones which are really different are the Canopus cards, which
>are shorter, and feature things like onboard fans for the chips and
>TV-Out capability.
Don Hancock
"Gunner"
ICQ 24045680
You may wish to consider the Obsidan X-24. Single slot PCI SLI solution.
But in reality, unless you want TV out, get the cheapest reference card you
can find.
Z.
How would you guys rate that?
The Banshee is a good single-card solution, but it will be a bit
slower than the Voodoo2 (10%?), and quite a bit slower than a
pair of Voodoo2's (20%?). It simply depends on your budget and
how much more you're willing to pay for maximum performance. The
Banshee should do you good up to 800x600 in GPL with most details
on but if you want 1024x768 at similar or better FPS -- or if you
want _everything_ on at 800x600 -- then the V2's in SLI are the
way to go.
For what it's worth, the 1024x768 resolution may not be worth the
extra cost if you're only considering GPL, considering name-brand
Banshee's go for $90 U.S. after rebate and a pair of 12MB V2's
will probably run at least a couple hundred. Back to the
bang-for-the-buck conundrum ;-)
> I'm getting a new computer and I am getting a 3dfx card, I want the best I
> can buy so I won't have to update it too soon and aswell that I want optimum
> performance.
> I don't want one that has great graphics but other bits suck like the speed
> or vise versa.
> Just what is the best one as I total package?
> TIA.
This is a good way to learn all about downloading and installing new drivers
every night for every new game you buy everytime you play. Everytime. All the
time.
Just buy a Canopus and go racing and go shooting them dang aliens happily ever
after.
:-)
Modifying what my carpenter friends advise me -- think twice,
post once ;-)
Rgds,
Mark R.
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 08:11:34 +0000, Ian Wright
>> Go and get a Guillmot maxigamer 3d2 i have 2 of them for 200 dollars
>> after 2 30$ rebates it's www.guillmot.com
>> rdracer
http://www.quantum3d.com/
-Bill
>I don't want one that has great graphics but other bits suck like the speed
>or vise versa.
>Just what is the best one as I total package?
> Why do you need 2 Voodoo2 cards? (or am I being stupid)
> do you have 2 PCs?
> > Go and get a Guillmot maxigamer 3d2 i have 2 of them for 200 dollars
> > after 2 30$ rebates it's www.guillmot.com
> > rdracer
I have a machine with two 450 Pentium II's 512mb ram with a Matrox G200
AGP and two Diamond Monster II's.
All the video cards were bought just to use GPL.
So far, in six weeks, I can manage half a lap of Monza before the
machine/game freezes.
I have tried drivers 201, 203 and 205. Also drivers from 3DFX.
They all have very much the same effect ,some freeze up the whole
machine some just the sim and CAD gets one back to the desktop.
I have also tried various other suggestions posted on this newsgroup
with no luck, how many combinations of 8 buttons are there?
Sierra say it is a Diamond driver problem. Yes, the game does run with
no enhanced 3D cards. I have enough horsepower to get about 20 fps but
only at 640x480, so "it don't look too good" but it does run.
I am composing a plea to Diamond to try to get them to fix their problem
on my $260.00 worth of video cards.
I may be wrong but isn't about time that PC programmers and hardware
people got together and sold products that work with one another rather
than have their customers paying them to do beta research.
It is most frustrating having the sim writer, they do state that their
sim runs under Voodoo II, saying its the board manufacturers fault and
vice versa, and all the while expecting us to pay for defective product.
Sorry for the rant but I am getting pissed off whith the whole deal. I
changed fron an Alpha platform, and know firsthand of their
incompatabilities, to an Intel one and have now found that they are not
much better there's just more stuff that doesn't work.
Cheers,
David Morton