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> >> > >Then why is the Mystique beating the other two in the PC Mag reviews ?
> >> > >
> >> > I think the best combo for a gamer would be the following:
> >> >
> >> > 1 Matrox Millennium
> >> > 1 3dfx card (such as the Diamond Monster or the Matrox Millennium)
> >I gess you should keep in mind that all 3d cards are optimized for DirectX 2.0 (within two years Dos will no longer be 
supported, so buy with windows in mind...), with 3.0 'just' being released it's wise to hold down your horses for a while.
Also keep in mind that a graphics card doesn't accelerate anything noticeable for games at the moment: do not expect a game 
like Quake to run faster on a Mystique... Even more, there is no use of buying VRAM based cards for this matter. 

Then again patches are released to run for example Quake in 640x480 32K colors on a Blaster card, the Mystique has 
Mechwarior... OK, you do have extra's on the 3dcards like fogging,alpha-blending,... which are hardware accelerated, but few 
gamespatches or games with native Direct support already exist.

So I think:
if you want more videomem which your old board doesn't support, or you have a cheap card like a Trident, you could chose to 
upgrade, but then wait until the summer.