l33t Video card

[danwinslow]

Ok.....hardware lust grips me yet again....any opinions on what is the best video card out there currently? Cost is not really a factor. I mean, I don't want to drop 60k on a scientific visualization card thats more powerful than all the desktops in East Anglia put together...well, at least while they havent ported Duck Hunt yet. But I owuld like to get a kickbutt video card. Any ideas?

[ZylonBane]

6800GT.

[keilbaca]

6800 GT or Ultra.

 

Either one overclocks nicely, most GT users OC to Ultra speeds very nicely, but if you want to really have some fun, get yourself an SLI motherboard, and 2 6800 GT's.

 

If you are looking for a single video card, there is a brand new release geforce card, its a 6800 Ultra, but it has 512mb of ram. The thing costs a grand...

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I like my ATI 9200, sure there's faster, but it's awesome for a decent price.

[Mr_8bit_16bit]

nVidia GeForce 4 MX!!!

 

 

(just kidding) though it's the best video card I have in any of computers right now. (sad, huh?) One of my old computers still has a 3dFx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI in it... (remember those? hey, it was good for quake 2!)

 

No, but seriously. I hear that for this generation of video cards, the ATI line is better than the nVidia line.

 

Whatever happened to 3dFx anyway?

[keilbaca]

nVidia GeForce 4 MX!!!

 

 

(just kidding) though it's the best video card I have in any of computers right now. (sad, huh?) One of my old computers still has a 3dFx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI in it... (remember those? hey, it was good for quake 2!)

 

No, but seriously. I hear that for this generation of video cards, the ATI line is better than the nVidia line.

 

Whatever happened to 3dFx anyway?

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When it hit the voodoo 5, they realized that they couldn't do much more with the processor, so they went to nVidia (thus Geforce FX )

 

Oh, I have you beat, I still have the VooDoo 1 ISA (I think) on my P1 machine at home.

[tr3]

voodoo1 was pci, i have it too

[Seob]

Remember that i used to own a 12mb voodoo 2.

A friend of my now got it and has set it up with his 12mb voodoo 2 to run in Sli mode. Nice indeed.

[Dones]

Ok.....hardware lust grips me yet again....any opinions on what is the best video card out there currently? Cost is not really a factor. I mean, I don't want to drop 60k on a scientific visualization card thats more powerful than all the desktops in East Anglia put together...well, at least while they havent ported Duck Hunt  yet. But I owuld like to get a kickbutt video card. Any ideas?

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If money is not a factor I would definitely get myself a pair of SLI-enabled NVIDIA based cards. I hear that even on slower or uneven cards you can still get top performance.

[Mr_8bit_16bit]

That island rendition of super mario bros is awesome.

 

Wasn't the Voodoo 2 just the top thing in it's day? Revered more in it's day than any single of today's cards is today?

 

That's what I thought I remembered anyway.

[danwinslow]

SLI-enabled NVIDIA based cards.

 

Such as? And whats SLI anyways...I am gathering its some kind of new dual card protocol but other than that I know nothing. Do you need special motherboard support for SLI?

[keilbaca]

SLI-enabled NVIDIA based cards.

 

Such as? And whats SLI anyways...I am gathering its some kind of new dual card protocol but other than that I know nothing. Do you need special motherboard support for SLI?

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SLI is 2 video cards working together as one.

 

You better get a AMD Athlon FX-55 because as of today, even the most elite processors are bottlenecking the dual 6800 Ultra setup.

[guitarmas]

Voodoo2 you say?? ::Sheesh:: I had the Voodoo banshee 16mb AGP 2x baby. It was nice for a PII 400. All I have now is a 64mb Geforce2 MX which does what it's job, I guess.