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3d card

Rick Schippe

3d card

by Rick Schippe » Sun, 28 Sep 1997 04:00:00

Hi!

I'm planning to buy a 3d  accelarator card.
But my question is, which one should i buy?

Rick                            

Rick Schippe

3d card

by Rick Schippe » Tue, 30 Sep 1997 04:00:00




>> Hi!

>> I'm planning to buy a 3d  accelarator card.
>> But my question is, which one should i buy?

>> Rick

>Rick,

>Just answered that question for myself a month or two ago.  I settled on
>the Diamond Monster 3D.  It uses the 3dfx Vodoo chipset meaning it can
>run games in 3d either written for Direct3d or for the 3dfx card
>directly.  3dfx based cards have the most games written for them by
>far.  The Diamond Monster 3d is a 3d-only card meaning you will need to
>have a 2d video card in your pc now and a free pci slot.  There are
>2d/3d versions based on the 3dfx RUSH chipset although you loose about
>20% of the performance of the 3d acceleration with the RUSH chipset vs
>the Voodoo chipset.

Thanx for the info. It was very helpful!

Rick


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