DejaWiz
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Man I loved 3dfx. My first real 3D accelerator was a Voodoo Rush I bought for $199. Logged a lot of play time in GLQuake and 3D patched Tomb Raider.
Second setup up was dual Voodoo2 12MB cards. Ran Ultima 9 decently... when the game wasn't crashing.
Almost 2 years later, I was given a brand new Riva TnT2 Ultra 32MB and was wowed beyond belief at the sheer speed of the darn thing.
A buddy of mine bought a Voodoo3 3500TV 16MB after I repeatedly told him to go with the TnT2 Ultra as well, and he instantly had buyers remorse when it just could not keep up with the similarly priced competitor's card.
I completely bypassed the GeForce 1 cards and finally broke down and bought a GeForce2 Pro 64MB shortly after their release. Another pleasant upgrade.
Since then it's been:
GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB
GeForce FX 5700 Ultra 128MB
Radeon 9600XT 128MB
6600GT, then 6600GT SLI
7800GT, then 7800GT SLI
And now an 8800GT.
Long road and lots of money spent over the years, but I've never been disappointed by the performance of anything I've had in my case.
And all because of 3dfx's outstanding products back in the day. Cheers and RIP.
Second setup up was dual Voodoo2 12MB cards. Ran Ultima 9 decently... when the game wasn't crashing.
Almost 2 years later, I was given a brand new Riva TnT2 Ultra 32MB and was wowed beyond belief at the sheer speed of the darn thing.
A buddy of mine bought a Voodoo3 3500TV 16MB after I repeatedly told him to go with the TnT2 Ultra as well, and he instantly had buyers remorse when it just could not keep up with the similarly priced competitor's card.
I completely bypassed the GeForce 1 cards and finally broke down and bought a GeForce2 Pro 64MB shortly after their release. Another pleasant upgrade.
Since then it's been:
GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB
GeForce FX 5700 Ultra 128MB
Radeon 9600XT 128MB
6600GT, then 6600GT SLI
7800GT, then 7800GT SLI
And now an 8800GT.
Long road and lots of money spent over the years, but I've never been disappointed by the performance of anything I've had in my case.
And all because of 3dfx's outstanding products back in the day. Cheers and RIP.