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    hey all im bored so i have a queation fro y'all
    which was the best graphics card you ever had (past present or one your about 2 get)
    mine is either my tnt or my g400max

    what about u?

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    My 'good old' Voodoo2 - how I miss it.

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    Well I reckon that my voodoo1 was the biggest single jump that really made a difference. The improvement over a 4mb Matrox Mystique were amazing and the Matrox was a really good card at the time

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    I will say my first TRUE 2d/3d card, the Diamond Stealth II s220 4meg PCI. It supported several advanced rendering options, and had superiror graphics. It used the Rendidtion Verite 2x00 chipset, which offered better 3D visuals than anything else on the market.

    The V-2100's only competitor was the 3dfx Voodoo-1. It could easily beat the v1 for looks, but definitely not speed. This is why Rendition lost in the long run.

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    Riva TNT. About the same time I got started in 3D gaming. Cannot say enough about how gameplay on the computer led me to a computer career. For its time, the TNT was one hell of a card. Now for the geforce 2 hmmmm...

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    My best would probably have to be my Diamond Monster Voodoo 2 12MB. Since then I've had a few cards such as a TNT2 and a GeForce DDR which are, obviously, technically superior in every way. But this one made the single biggest difference to games and stuff... it was incredible comapred to what I'd been used to - went from a P-90 with a 2MB PCI card to a P-II 400 with the whole works - oh how it flew!! *sniff*

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    My best would probably have to be my Diamond Monster Voodoo 2 12MB. Since then I've had a few cards such as a TNT2 and a GeForce DDR which are, obviously, technically superior in every way. But this one made the single biggest difference to games and stuff... it was incredible comapred to what I'd been used to - went from a P-90 with a 2MB PCI card to a P-II 400 with the whole works - oh how it flew!! *sniff*

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    actually i think it was my ati rage pro , when i saw the graphics on redline racer (id been paying with consoles before) i was amased @ how colourful it was <G> ::sniff::

    s'cuse me

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    Yeah -- the Diamond Monster VooDooII. It's now in my son's pc and I was playing with it the other day while downloading some files on my main machine and, you know, its still not bad even compared to my Matrox G400Max.

    I was at CompUSA today and they had some VooDooII's on sale ($79.95) and I'm thinkin' SLI. The dual VooDooII SLI setup has some pretty impressive frame rates even by today's standards. Although, I'm sure if I shop around I can beat the CompUSA price.

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    My old Voodoo3 2000 AGP. When I got it, everything worked instantly, and beautifully, she was a beauty.

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    but the voodoo1 was definitely the breakthrough in graphics cards period.

    [This message has been edited by Snuffy! (edited 05-11-2000).]

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    TNT - So good im still not upgraded

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    Well when I first saw the Voodoo I was amazed, my next graphics card would be a Voodoo3 2000 PCI, and then when I built another computer I would get the Voodoo3 3000 AGP, which only 2 months later I got rid of because I have enough $$$ for a GeForce2.

    Well my real gem of this lot was my Voodoo3 3000 AGP, I got that card to run sooo well, It ran better than my friends' GeForce SDR. It got a max of 71fps in HL 1280*960, average was 25-40fps outside and 35-55 inside. It really was a good little card.

    But now I have gotten rid of it in favor of a GeForce2, as soon as those 64mb versions are out, it may become my next gem. Long live the GeForce!

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    my first good card was an agp creativelabs 16mb card i still have it it's extra here. now i have an s3 savage4 32mb agp card and it's sweet.

    SA

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    The 32mb ATI all in wonder 128 agp. Say what you gamers want about ATI, this card does everything i need

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