3D card Recommendations

John plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 24 Jun 2001 22:58:45 -0700


I will have to agree on this one I have a Geforce 2 MX and even after working 
via email with Nvidia was told, "hmm I just don't know why it won't work."

John W


On Friday 22 June 2001 21:42, you wrote:
> Well, I can recommend against nVidia for new purchases.  While it may
> not be worth dumping a pre-existing nVidia card, buying a new one is
> buying a card with no guarantee of continuing driver support.  (And of
> course, it seems to take longer for them to release fairly stable
> versions of the drivers if you read the Mandrake forums.)
>
> And if you want to play something like Quake 3 on your system, I have
> recently purchased it from EBStore.com only to discover my S3 Savage4
> card isn't supported.  (F&*^ing grrrrrrrrr!)
>
> I hear good things about ATI and Matrox though.
>
> "Michael J. Schweppe" wrote:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I'm about ready to make the plunge and get a 3d card for the Red Hat 7.1
> > box [PIII 450 w/ one AGP slot].
> >
> > >From the looking around I've done so far I like the NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
> >
> > VisionTek card.  I need to keep it under $150 too.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Mike
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