Re: What is the best 3d graphics card/combination

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From: ch... Lee Chisnall
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 00:00

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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:03:07 +0000, Steve Allison
<St...@sallison.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <330341...@earthlink.net>, "Harold Alley jr."
><ata...@earthlink.net> writes
>>The best combination of cards is the one I currently install in my high
>>end machines, Namely a Diamond stealth 3d 3000 with 4 megs vram. I use
>>this card as the 2d accelerator. and I  piggyback a Diamond Monster 3d
>>with the ati rage for 3d I find this combo works best in the systems i
>>sell.
>IMHO I think the best advice would be to buy a fast cheap combo 2D/3D
>card for now ( Diamond 2000 3D about 70ukp/ Matrox Mystique 3d 99ukp )
>for now and wait for some sort of standard thats going to be supported
>by the software houses. Its just not worth spending a fortune now only
>to find its outdated and unsuported in 3 months time.

That's just what I've done. Got a 4mb Mystique for 120 UKP.
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From: ch...@voodoo.co.uk! (Lee Chisnall)
Subject: Re: What is the best 3d graphics card/combination
Date: 1997/02/22
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