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Kalen
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 Posted: Fri May 04, 2001 5:59 pm |
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| I have no idea what card I should be looking at. A friend of mine told me not to go with a Voodoo as to they dont do well with open GL drivers. I am in the dark here, if anyone has any suggestions it owuld be great, I am on a pentium 3/533 with 127 mb ram. |
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Awetopsy
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2001 7:17 pm |
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honestly a geforce or geforce 2 would do you great with that machine. 
could probly get away with a TNT2 with detonator drivers too. |
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synj
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2001 11:36 pm |
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| eh.. the video card will have pretty much jack shit to do with it. You want processor power mister. |
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BooMSticK
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2001 5:14 am |
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processor power for rendering. Top notch graphics card for full speed interface performance. A geforce2 card would do just fine...
,Boom |
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Kalen
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2001 6:41 pm |
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| awsome, this has all totally helped. I will go for the geforce2. Thanks everyone. =) |
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Loki
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2001 11:45 pm |
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Hey Kalen!
I recently went through 'card wars' so I might be able to help you here, since I'm also doing 3D ...
First of all - the Voodoo cards are not an option anymore, because the company went down and their assets got bought by Nvidia.
Which brings us to the GeForce cards. I think they're excellent - I had a GeForce1 for over a year and recently upgraded to a GeForce2 Ultra. Great card - I run 1600x1200 screenres and in my 3D program I've got NO problems.
And right now, the GeForce3 is being released. People were shocked to see those cards priced at U$700.- but I just talked to a friend of mine and he says he ordered an Asus GeForce3 for U$350. I definetely recommend to go with that one.
If that is out of your range, go with a GF2 GTS - stay away from the GF2 MAX, since it's not very fast.
Once you got the card, install the Nvidia reference drivers (Detonator3) - this will give you excellent compatibility in OpenGL applications. There will be display mistakes, but only professional cards $1000+ have rocksolid openGL driver. IMHO those are a waste of money if you're not doing hardcore professional work that needs one of those cards.
Allrighty?
Cheers,
Loki  |
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