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Article #35257Re: What is the best 3d graphics card/combination
From: meis... Meister
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 00:00
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Matrox Millenium and Orchid Righteous 3d are the best combination. I have this combo and it works awesome! Meister On Fri, 07 Mar 1997 19:55:32 -0800, Toon Sykora <Sykora%...@vinip.cc.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote: >> >> > >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.
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From: meis...@ix.netcom.com (Meister) Subject: Re: What is the best 3d graphics card/combination Date: 1997/03/08 Message-ID: <332119a5.16961894@nntp.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 223946696 References: <01bbfff5$13df6ae0$bc1cd6cc@tplace> <32db6022.2365609@news.earthlink.net> <5c937r$46n2@wolfman.xtra.co.nz> <5ckc6a$obf$1@f02s02.tac.net> <01baf186$7248df40$67c548c2@default> <32fcb3b0.10711002@news.mindspring.com> <01bc1809$93f042a0$c40950ce@willard> <01bc273b$88ab1b40$961b2399@culbeda-95> <33216a43.1552826@netnews.voicenet.com> <3320E334.7FD8@vinip.cc.kuleuven.ac.be> Organization: Netcom X-NETCOM-Date: Sat Mar 08 3:56:09 AM CST 1997 Newsgroups: alt.binaries.games,alt.binaries.games.discussion,alt.binaries.games.quake,alt.games,alt.games.command,alt.games.command.and,alt.games.command.and.conquer,alt.games.command-n-conq,alt.games.command-n-conq.red-alert,alt.games.descent,alt.games.duk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit