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GeForce3 Titanium Reviews

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the simulating-the-third-dimension dept.

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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  1. Shadow buffers by The+Ultimate+Badass · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is an excellent addition, and very much needed. Shadows can be one of the hardest thingsto get looking good in OpenGL, and usually they are done in a hacked out, unsatistfactory sort of way, sometimes just by copying the model, setting all textures to black and using shear and scale transforms to squish the model onto the floor. This will hopefully do a much better job.

    As for titanium plating -- you don't want it, trust me. It scratches and stains far too easily, and you can't clean it when it does. Looks good when it's undamaged, though.

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    Denial isn't just a river in Italy

  2. GeForce 3 Ti 200 by Wolfier · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does anyone see that???

    NO FAN !!!!

    That's why my video cards so far have been Voodoo3 2000 and Asus GeForce 2MX.

    No fans. For the peace of mind. For the lack of the ugly wire. For _real_ advances from 0.18 to 0.15 microns, not just overclock-it-bruteforce-and-do-some-cooldown-patch work.

    Good job! I'm looking forward to seeing faster no-fan video cards.