[rescue] 3D machines

[Zach Malone]

3Dfx made great cards, its just that the driver support is not there
anymore.  After all, the Voodoo 2 (In regular or SLI configurations) was the
fastest card around for quite some time, same thing with the original
Voodoo.  NVidia makes great 3D cards, but there have been so many problems
with the manufacturers using low quality parts in their cards, resulting in
horrid 2D appearence at high resolutions that I dont trust them anymore.
Even the name brand companies do this, my dad has a Gefore 2 GTS 64mb hooked
up to a Sony 24" monitor, above 1600x1200 its unusable, the lines are no
longer crisp, they become fuzzy.  Supposedly some of these problems are not
present in the Geforce 3s, but those are quite pricey.  I am very happy with
my ATI cards, but look out for the Radeon VE, it has some compatibility
problems (it IDs as a radeon but its stripped down, so many drivers dont
like it).
    Zach
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tugrul Galatali" <tugrul at galatali.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] 3D machines


> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
>
> > BTW, after nearly a year of fighting with my Lintel machine, I finally
got
> [...]
> > But, this might just be my machine demonstrating why 3DFX deserved to
die.
> > Afterall, blender on windows on my sisters computer is much faster, and
> > she only has a dinky Riva128, and much less memory and CPU power than my
> > box.  Sigh.  It is these difficulties with acceleration that make me
long
> > for an SGI of reasonably recent vintage more than anything else.  At
this
> > point, even an Indy or 4D might be an improvement, although I think I
can
> > hold out until either an O2 or Indigo2 Hi Impact are within reach.
>
> Go get a nVidia based card before knocking 3D acceleration on Lintel :)
> It delivers most if not all of the performance you would get under
Windows, and
> in my experience has been very stable and easy to install.
> Unless of course, you are just itching to get a SGI, and won't give the
> Lintel box a fair shot ;)
>
> I remember two years ago choosing the TNT2 Ultra over my friend's
> choice of a Voodoo 3000... I'm still happy with the performance of it. The
> first time I thought of replacing it was when my laptop arrived with the
> GeForce2 Go... *WOAH* :)
> The only reason not to buy nVidia these days is the Radeon AIW edition.
>
> Tugrul Galatali
>
>
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