Taughts

davie_b

just bought a new graphics card as attached here(7900)
for my gamin g rig just taught i'd get your
opinions on it it's replacing x1300 256mb card in my newer rig
as it was benchmarking slower than my old rigs agp x800 gt all in wonder

pray enlighten me with your uber knowledge!!

davie_b

http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustRatingReview.asp?DEPA=0&Type=&Item=N82E16814130015&SortField=0&SummaryType=ALL&Pagesize=&Page=2
sorry theres the link
:rolleyes:

K.O.Kiki

... Obviously an x1300's gonna be slow.
They only sell for about €100 tops...

1 lesson for you:
Research your hardware before buying.
That is all.

DonkeyRhubarb

The 7900GT is a brilliant card for the price. Id highly recommend it.

Please refer to:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054963888

xabi

davie_b wrote:

pray enlighten me with your uber knowledge!!

Taughts isnt a word!

davie_b

K.O.Kiki wrote:

... Obviously an x1300's gonna be slow.
They only sell for about €100 tops...

1 lesson for you:
Research your hardware before buying.
That is all.

the rig came with the card preinstalled so why would i research it????
thats why i bought the 7900gt ko Knowing it was better than what i had in old rig(x800gt all in wonder)
to answer your research before buying post!!!!!!

davie_b

DonkeyRhubarb wrote:

The 7900GT is a brilliant card for the price. Id highly recommend it.

Please refer to:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054963888

cheers buddy!

PogMoThoin

Got 7900gt myself.....u WILL NOT be dissapointed

K.O.Kiki

davie_b wrote:

the rig came with the card preinstalled so why would i research it????
thats why i bought the 7900gt ko Knowing it was better than what i had in old rig(x800gt all in wonder)
to answer your research before buying post!!!!!!

Ahh, well that's alright then
Pity you have to go through the hassle of selling the x1300

davie_b

K.O.Kiki wrote:

Ahh, well that's alright then
Pity you have to go through the hassle of selling the x1300

nah i'l just build a third rig for internet browse'n with what i have left over!!
sempron 3200+
1024mb pc3200 ram(2*512mb)
80gig h/d
ati x1300

now for a case and a cheap mobo and a psu!!!!

davie_b

PogMoThoin wrote:

Got 7900gt myself.....u WILL NOT be dissapointed

yeah got it up and running,
like a dream accompanied by 2gig of ram
not a hint of a problem.....YET!!

thanks all!!!


ps. that rig in my sig i do actually own altough
it is in a bout 4 pieces in several locations

christophicus

Why do you have that in your sigg when you have such a good rig!!!

TerrorFirmer

The voodoo is still top class for playing older games in glide!

TomCo

I love my 12mb voodoo 2.

SLi Go Home.

christophicus

HavoK wrote:

The voodoo is still top class for playing older games in glide!

Are you being seriouse??
Whats glide? Is it like open gl or direct 3D.

davie_b

christophicus wrote:

Are you being seriouse??
Whats glide? Is it like open gl or direct 3D.

Some one is not an original unreal tournament
fan!!!!

it's a wonder piece of open software and works with 3dfx
cards on windows and linux platforms
(correct me if i'm wrong!!!)

Glide was a proprietary 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx used on their Voodoo graphics cards. It was dedicated to gaming performance, supporting geometry and texture mapping primarily, in data formats identical to those used internally in their cards. The Voodoo cards were the first to offer performance to really make 3D games work well, and Glide became fairly widely used as a result. The introduction of DirectX and full OpenGL implementations from other vendors eventually doomed Glide, and 3dfx along with it.

Glide is based on the basic geometry and "world view" of OpenGL. OpenGL is a very large library with about 250 calls in the API, many of which are of limited use. Glide was an effort to select those features that were truly useful for gaming, leaving the rest out. The result was an API that was small enough to be implemented entirely in hardware. That hardware, of course, was 3dfx's own Voodoo cards. This led to several odd limitations in Glide – for instance, it only supported 16-bit color.

The combination of the Voodoo's raw performance and Glide's easy-to-use API resulted in Voodoo cards generally dominating the gaming market from the mid to late 1990s. The name Glide was chosen to be indicative of the GL underpinnings, while being different enough to avoid trademark problems. 3dfx also supported a low-level MiniGL driver, making their cards particularly popular for players of the various Quake-derived games. MiniGL was essentially a "different Glide" with a wider selection of OpenGL calls and lacking the dedication to a single hardware platform. Due to the Voodoo's "GL-like" hardware, MiniGL on Voodoo was very "thin" and ran almost as well as Glide.

As new cards entered the market 3dfx managed to hold the performance crown for a short time, based largely on the tight integration between Glide and their hardware. This allowed them to be somewhat lax in hardware terms, which was important as the small gamer-only market 3dfx sold into wasn't large enough to support a large development effort. It was not long before offerings from nVidia and ATI Technologies were able to outperform the latest Voodoo cards using standard APIs. 3dfx responded by releasing Glide as an open source API, but it was too late. By late 1999 they announced that almost all games had moved to Direct3D, and to a lesser extent, OpenGL.

Today old Glide supporting games can often be run on modern graphics cards with help of a Glide wrapper. Numerous such computer programs exist.

there ya go!!!

TerrorFirmer

I have a 12mb Voodoo 2 here but I don't have the damn cable to connect it to my main card, anyone have a spare one or know where I can get one?

davie_b

love to help but alas i don't have said cable anymore
have u try other afiliated 3dfx sites could a sworn i seen 1 knockin about
if not e-bay del muerte is always a good bet!!!