Author Topic: Which GeForce? (Read 492 times)

racerx · « **on:** May 05, 2000, 01:59:00 AM »

Income Tax check just got in and im looking for the best GeForce out there.
any suggestions?
many thx in advance

Dyin to play AH with you guys

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racerx
"SCREAM'IN PTERODACTYLS"

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #1 on:** May 05, 2000, 02:30:00 AM »

I advice you. My experience with GeForce is not impressive at all. It is much more marketing than real performance. Having used for years voodoo2 SLI I can tell you GeForce DDR is frankly inferior.

racerx · « **Reply #2 on:** May 05, 2000, 03:44:00 AM »

i currently have 2 8m voodooII's in sli
i am upgading my CPU and video card
with my 166 i get 2 fps in AH and its not worth playin
but with my upgrade i should be alright

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racerx
"SCREAM'IN PTERODACTYLS"

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #3 on:** May 05, 2000, 05:52:00 AM »

Well, now I have a K7 700 with GeForce, previously I had the K7 with V2 SLI. I needed to change to GeForce because my SLI is not compatible with my ADSL card in the new mainboard. With the K7 and SLI (2 12 mb V2) I got up to 73 fps witn 190A8 frontal view. Now , with GeForce DDR I get no more than 63fps in same conditions (1024x768 16bpp). GeForce DDR is much slower than V2 SLI in fillrate and are not optimized for 3DNow.

bloom25 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 06, 2000, 03:51:00 AM »

The GeForce has a slower clock rate that other chips like the TNT2 Ultra. This is why you often see higher framerates in 1024 and 800x600 modes with TNT2 cards etc. There are also several problems between GeForce cards and Athlon motherboards using AMD chipsets. The drivers are also not as well developed at this time.

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