GeForce3 Titanium Reviews

Paladin128 sent us Tom's and Anandtech's respective reviews of the new NVIDIA GeForce3 Titanium series. DX8.1 compatibility (What is that anyway?), Shadow Buffers, 3D Textures, assorted other stuffs. Hey, but why is everything 'Titanium' now anyway? Laptops. Batteries. Video cards. I wonder if I can get titanium plating.

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hey..

[PopeAlien]

Hey, but why is everything 'Titanium' now anyway?

Well, at least its not E-Titanium or iTanium..

Re:hey..

[blazin]

And since Titanium cards are now the next better things past Platinum cards, to quote a Busta' Rhymes song:

"I'm so rich, I got ridda' all my platimun cards, and I got me a Uranium card..."

Details on titanium

[dstone]

Go here for tasty tidbits on everbody's favorite element and its alloys...

[titanium.org][titanium.org][titanium.org]

Here are some strength-to-weight stats, specifically.

Next credit card

[smaughster]

Of course, the next series of credit cards are Uranium. A small green card with glow-in-the-dark feature, and if you every lose one, just use a Geiger teller.

Terminology

[Animats]

What's been done?

• Turbo Been there, done that.
• Silver Seems tacky today.
• Gold Overused by everybody.
• Platinum Overused by credit card issuers.
• Titanium Getting tired.
• Iridium The Edsel of cellular.
• Carbon Not wide enough appeal.
• Graphite Too '90s.
• Dilithium See Bob Asprin's "Phule" series.
• Quartz Dated.
• Power It's been done.
• TNT In use.
• Detonator In use by NVidia.
• Slayer Buffy has this one.
• Killer Too general.
• Rage In use by ATI.
• X-anything Overused.
• Accelerated A bit old.
• Express Too retro.
• Atomic Dated.
• Radio Even more dated.
• Streamliner We're back to the 1920s now.
• Electric Still more dated.

What now? Retro names? Something like the "NVidia Locomotive"? Nah. Probably coined words and numbers again.