2003/9/15-16 [Computer/HW/Display] UID:10204 Activity:moderate | 9/14 What's the best graphics card in terms of bang/buck?
\_ Currently, anything ATI.
\_ Given the latest Half-Life 2 benchmarks, the Radeon 9600 Pro
\_ Yes, but would you want to play HL2 on it? And is HL2 the
only game you'll be playing? And, oh yeah, HL2 isn't out now
anyway, so today's bang/buck is meaningless in terms of vapor
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2002/4/24 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:24563 Activity:nil | 4/23 have a scsi plextor burner (4/2/20), looking to swap for a decent
ide model, or crappy model and old 10-20g hard drive. Also have
3dfx, 3dfx2 cards free to good homes. -jor
\_ Do you know if FreeBSD has hardware acceleration for the cards?
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2001/8/15-16 [Computer/HW/Display] UID:22124 Activity:low | 8/15 Anyone aware of any 3D companies besides NVidia and ATI and BitBoys
which are still in business?
\_ And you included BitBoys because of their stellar product line,
right? Even though not in the gaming market anymore, Matrox is
still more in the business than BitBoys ever hope to be.
\_ there's also the folks who make the Kyro chips, and the cores,
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2001/2/22-23 [Computer/HW/Display, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:20652 Activity:moderate | 2/22 Go watch the streaming video presentation of GeForce3 / Doom3. You'll
be impressed (oh wait, this is the CSUA i'm talking to here... n/m)
\_ For only $600 too. Why bother paying rent when you can get a
GeForce3.
\_ I'm still waiting for nVida to release the mac rom flasher
for the 2MX card. I'm stuck with a Rage 128 Pro (?) and I
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1999/6/19-21 [Computer/HW/Display] UID:15988 Activity:high | 6/18 Anyone following 3D video cards nowadays? Any
recommendations? I've heard good things about the Riva TNT2.
Which model would I want to buy?
\_ the DiamondMM card is cheap... under $190
\_ I'd go for a Creative TNT2 Ultra... diamond's drivers
are rather lacking. (i've got one)
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1997/2/18 [Computer/HW/Display] UID:32079 Activity:nil | 2/17 What's the difference between the Diamond Stealth 3D and the
Matrox mellenium? Which is better?
\_ the difference... matrox millenium is slick... the best!
Diamond 3D.. sucks!
\_ MATROX ROX! DIAMOND SUX!
\_ Diamond really does suck. Even if the card's good,
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