I currently have a Viper 550... a great card but it doesn't support Glide.
Some of the newest games don't support OpenGL but DO support Glide .....
The VooDoo 3000 supports both and is rated faster than even the new ATI
128bit card.
Preacher
99 5.2L CC 4x4 SLT+
Charlotte, NC
http://www.bastaards.org
At 02:22 PM 6/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Personally, I purchased (and promptly returned) a Voodoo3 AGP card....the
>Diamond Viper 770 is about the fastest damn thing i've seen yet. (I can
>run Quake2 @ 1280x1024 without any video problems).
>
>I saw the fan you were referring to...nice...but freekin' expensive.
>
>
>At 11:23 AM 06/15/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>>Bernd - My bad, I though you were talkin about the
>>"whopper sandwich" fan that is like 60 bones. The dual
>>pII fan is what I need to get a hold of, I've been
>>contemplating getting the Riva TNT2 Ultra and it gets
>>hooootttt in there.
>>
>>Preacher - Sounds like you got a nice little setup,
>>gotta get that cable modem in the pIII, that thing
>>will be smokin. I dont know or havent heard of any way
>>to overclock the pIII's, I think they are all
>>multiplier locked, but go check out
>>http://www.overclockers.com if ya get a minute, it's
>>very informative.
>>
>>Later
>>Jack Yates
>>'99 Black CC R/T
>>
>>--- David Preacher Slocum <preacher@carolina.rr.com>
>>wrote:
>>> It's funny that we should be talking about computer
>>> speeds this week. I
>>> have a cable modem hooked to a P166...... the damn
>>> modem is faster than the
>>> computer is! I got tired of not being able to keep
>>> up with my son's PII 400
>>> (I installed a network at home and we game together)
>>> and ordered a new
>>> system this week. It's a PIII 450 w/ 256 megs of
>>> ram, 13Gig HD and a Voodoo
>>> 3 3000 card. I paid extra for a double CPU fan
>>> ($29.00) and for a double
>>> case fan (another $29.00). I think the extra $$ will
>>> be a deal in the long
>>> run.... Now onto the question.... can you overclock
>>> a PIII ? ANyone tried
>>> this? (Don't think I will need to for a while, but
>>> it would be handy to
>>> know when Intel comes out with it's 1gig cpu next
>>> year :-)
>>>
>>> Preacher
>>> 99 5.2L CC 4x4 SLT+
>>> Charlotte, NC
>>> http://www.bastaards.org
>>>
>>>
>>> At 10:36 AM 6/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>> >The Dual Fan setups (not doulble-sided) for the
>>> PII's are only $29.95.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Preacher
>>> 99 5.2L CC 4x4 SLT+
>>> Charlotte, NC
>>> http://www.bastaards.org
>>>
>>>
>>
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Preacher
99 5.2L CC 4x4 SLT+
Charlotte, NC
http://www.bastaards.org
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