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3dfx Voodoo3 2000 PCI 16MB Video Card

3dfx Voodoo3 2000 PCI 16MB Video Card

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The BOMB!!
Review: This card has boosted up my games so much that i recommend this card to every gamer in the world...this card should be put in every system!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: This card is good at first................
Review: This card is widely available for all games. It has good graphics. It is almost the best card ever, or is it. The only problem with this card is that after a few years of maybe, 2 or 3, the card will overheat and if your computer is not vented well enough, you have to take off the shell. If you want a card for a little while I highly recommend it. If you want it to last, your looking at the wrong card.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Kicks A** in a 2.5 year old mac
Review: This card works great in my Old Umax J700(Upgraded 300mhz G3). It lets me play Q3 without having to buy a new computer. I get 24 fps at 1024 with most of the goodies turned on. A great option for a Mac guy with an old machine.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good Card (emphasize good)
Review: This is a great workhorse card, it tackles any driver I came across. It didn't work with a few games I had and I couldn't find a patch for some of them, but it worked pretty well otherwise. It isn't blazing fast and doesen't have all of the bells and wistles, but with it's 16mb's it will be running games sufficiently for a long time to come. You'll get your money's worth with this card.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good Card (emphasize good)
Review: This is a great workhorse card, it tackles any driver I came across. It didn't work with a few games I had and I couldn't find a patch for some of them, but it worked pretty well otherwise. It isn't blazing fast and doesen't have all of the bells and wistles, but with it's 16mb's it will be running games sufficiently for a long time to come. You'll get your money's worth with this card.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Quick & Simple
Review: This is an good/average PCI accelerator card. If you want power to play newer games (Quake3,Unreal) then go for a GeForce AGP brand. These mid-range voodoo's do an excellent job at what they were designed for. I suggest a minimum 64 Meg SDRAM if you're playing non-demanding games. I have a Pentium II 333MhZ with 64 RAM and I have this card for it. I recomend to anyone wanting to play Quake 3 (or more demanding) on it to upgrade your RAM to 128 or higher. This is an excellent card for the money, if you have the RAM. I suggest this card for people who are novice/intermediate gamers.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good, not the best.
Review: While the Voodoo3 2K is a good 3d accelerator, 3dfx has lost its edge. They used to make up for the degraded image quality (compared to the TNT and other chipsets) with better speed, but they've now lost the edge on speed as well. Check out all the benchmarks and quality analysis of the TNT2 Ultra vs. Voodoo3 AGP at www.tomshardware.com, and you'll see what I mean.

The TNT2 (Ultra) installs flawlessly under Windoze (a miracle in itself) and I virtually hot-swapped it into my Linux system with no problems at all. I can play Q3A, Half-Life, and Q2 at 1024x768 with no thrashing whatsoever. I can even play in 32bpp at that resolution, completely smoothly... and the Voodoo3 can't manage that *at all*.

Advice: quit defaulting to 3dfx just because they're 3dfx. They've been riding on their laurels for so long (the V3 is almost exactly the same as the V2 except for a little speed boost -- again, see Tom's Hardware) that Riva blew right past them in the 3d accelerator market, where they used to dominate everyone in sight. If you buy 3dfx, you send a message that you don't mind if they sit back and stop innovating. If you buy TNT2 this time, you send 3dfx a message to get off their butts. Face it... you're going to wind up buying a new card in a couple of years anyway, so you might as well go with who's best today, and see what happens tomorrow.


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