which is better for 3d games and applications, can't afford those new boards yet too expensive, currently got a generic permedia2 will it worth an upgrade.
i think that the voodoo3 would be alot better. first of all, it's compatible with everything. i've haerd of many ppl with problem concerning compatibility issues between tnt2 and motherboards, and stuff like that. i've only heard of one voodoo3 compatibility problem. the voodoo3 is good for everything. also, your cpu isn't that powerful. the voodoo3 doesn't take that much cpu power to run. it's very processor independent. lastly, it was a great, and still a pretty good 2d 3d card. i don't think that problems with compatibility and all the trouble of trying to fix it is worth for a little bit more image quality. ie.tnt2-good image quality. voodoo3-not as good image quality.
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MaH SyStEm:
PIII 450, 128 RAM, i740 (the i740 was last year's best midrange 2d card, so ha!) voodoo2 sli, 4.8X toshiba DVD, 4x4x20 cd-rw
MaH SyStEm:
PIII 450, 128 RAM, i740 (the i740 was last year's best midrange 2d card, so ha!) voodoo2 sli, 4.8X toshiba DVD, 4x4x20 cd-rw
Definately, go for the Voodoo 3 2000. It overclocks nicely to 166MHz (Voodoo 3 3000), and you will not have compatibility problems. Personally I love mine, and I got the PCI version, because it may hold more value to sell later to someone with no AGP slot, or for use in a secondary system down the road. The TNT2 definately has better image quality, but it has bugs and compatibility problems. Also, the V3 will outperform the TNT2 M64 (most of the cheap ones are M64), due to the M64's 64 bit memory bandwidth limitation, and the V3 is cheaper. Add in the Glide support and it's a no-brainer!
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voodoo is for crappy grafics and less cpu dependant but tnt2 ultra is better for graffics. voodoo isn't worht compatibility overs it crappy graffics engine. how ever the tnt2 can be complicated to get woring right but when it does it kicks voodoo3 out of the water
morphious, u talk the biggest load of S**T. The graphical output of a voodoo card and a tnt card are almost identical. There is 'NO' difference between 32 bit and 16 bit color. The only diference between voodoo and tnt with graphics is texture quality (3dfx 256x256 TNT 2Kx2K) but the only game that uses textures above voodoo specs is Quake 3 (max it uses 512x512).
GLIDE ALL THE WAY!
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Thank you for booting windows for the first time "Error, This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown"
"i think that the voodoo3 would be alot better. first of all, it's compatible with everything"
Yeah, unless you are on games 3 years old TNT 2 is also compatible with everything.
"i've haerd of many ppl with problem concerning compatibility issues between tnt2 and motherboards, and stuff like that. i've only heard of one voodoo3 compatibility problem"
I never heard of any such compatibility problems. Lack of knowledge is the max I've seen, thus there are problems. But if problems hapen with TNT2, you can bet that the same **** can hapen to Voodoo 3.
"the voodoo3 doesn't take that much cpu power to run. it's very processor independent"
Oh really? Weird, I can swaer to you that Voodoo 3 does not have T&L and it does not process AI... the only thing Voodoo 3 does is rendering! So, what does that mean? It means that Voodoo 3 is cpu dependent yes, just as CPU dependent as TNT2!
"i don't think that problems with compatibility and all the trouble of trying to fix it is worth for a little bit more image quality"
What problems? And even if there WHERE problems I think it WOULD be worth due to TNT2's superior perfromance.
"Definately, go for the Voodoo 3 2000. It overclocks nicely to 166MHz (Voodoo 3 3000), and you will not have compatibility problems"
Yeah, you can easily overclock a TNT2 Ultra to 175Mhz, and you won't have compatibility problems too.
"There is 'NO' difference between 32 bit and 16 bit color"
It's true, BUT THERE IS A DIFERENCE IN PERFROMANCE!!!!
"GLIDE ALL THE WAY!"
It's weird how you guys think that Glide is gonna make a Voodoo 3 look like a GeForce 2... it helps, but it doesn't make miracles... when I had my Voodoo 2 I NEVER felt the diference in Glide and Direct 3D...
someone obviously wasn't here when all the "tnt2 vs. voodoo3" wars and "something wrong with my tnt2!!!" "tnt2 isn't compatible!!!!" "motherbaord doesn't work with tnt2!!!!" problems were going on...
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MaH SyStEm:
PIII 450, 128 RAM, i740 (the i740 was last year's best midrange 2d card, so ha!) voodoo2 sli, 4.8X toshiba DVD, 4x4x20 cd-rw
MaH SyStEm:
PIII 450, 128 RAM, i740 (the i740 was last year's best midrange 2d card, so ha!) voodoo2 sli, 4.8X toshiba DVD, 4x4x20 cd-rw
and all because like everyone on this post thinks differently from you doesn't mean that you hafta go around trying to make us look stupid or not knowing what we're tlaking about...
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MaH SyStEm:
PIII 450, 128 RAM, i740 (the i740 was last year's best midrange 2d card, so ha!) voodoo2 sli, 4.8X toshiba DVD, 4x4x20 cd-rw
MaH SyStEm:
PIII 450, 128 RAM, i740 (the i740 was last year's best midrange 2d card, so ha!) voodoo2 sli, 4.8X toshiba DVD, 4x4x20 cd-rw
Look both cards are good for p2-450s and less. There is a difference between 16 bit and 32 bit. I'll post some pics for you guys to compare (i have a tnt2u).
I'm only doing this because I'm bored and no one is posting!
ASUS Rampage III Formula Intel X58, Intel Core i7-930 @ 3.6, Patriot Viper II Sector 7 Edition 12GB, Galaxy Geforce GTX 680 SLI, LITE-ON Internal Blu-ray Burner 12X, Dell UltraSharp U2711 IPS-Panel Black 27" 6ms, Corsair Hydro Series H100, ENERMAX SGALAXY EVO EGX1250EWT, Corsair Obsidian 800D, Windows 7 x64
I can't really tell the diference on 32-bits over 16-bits...
About TNT2 vs. Voodoo 3, the only "advatnage" I can think of Voodoo 3 has is the fact it works with PCI, but this is not an issue, PCI is slow, AGP is faster and there are no problems on a TNT 2 under AGP, so it can't be really a problem...
Two things to take into considerations. These are .jpg's so some degrediation will be present.
You must be in 32 bits to view the 32 bit pics correctly, otherwise all you're getting is a 16 bit dithered pic.
ASUS Rampage III Formula Intel X58, Intel Core i7-930 @ 3.6, Patriot Viper II Sector 7 Edition 12GB, Galaxy Geforce GTX 680 SLI, LITE-ON Internal Blu-ray Burner 12X, Dell UltraSharp U2711 IPS-Panel Black 27" 6ms, Corsair Hydro Series H100, ENERMAX SGALAXY EVO EGX1250EWT, Corsair Obsidian 800D, Windows 7 x64
In my experience, the V3 is the most compatible card i've seen and the TNT2 is not. For fps, compatibility and Kickass Glide go for V3, but for image quality in Q3 go for a TNT2 ultra.
Just my 2 pence.
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