Test all the cards at best API. (Real life use, why would I want to run say Tribes on OpenGL when it runs so much better on Glide?) The 3dfx card would shine here. I still play "old" games like Tribes, UT, EQ, etc. I want glide support. Back in the old days before Tom of Tom's Hardware became nVidia sponsored, he used to do best API comparisons. These were very interesting. Made 3dfx look real good. Now he won't even acnowledge the existance of the 3dfx cards. No huge articles when the 5500 was released. Unlike when the GeForce2 GTS/Ultras were released. Keep it up Tom - your sold out colors are shining through.
RDRAM is not to be confused with cheap. For the price of quality 128M RDRAM (800Mhz) I could pick up a Giga Pent. III or Athlon. Personally, I'll take the Athlon (no external cooling plumbing for me, thank you very much)
While I agree that the mp3 format has no loss when copied, mp3's are lossy when compared to the the original work. If the mp3 was a perfect digital copy of the master, that's one thing. Anyone who's "ripped" mp3's off a CD can tell you the CD always sounds better.
The "low end" VooDoo5 was beating the GeForce2 at high res. If you play games at 640x480, I feel sorry for you... sniper fodder.
My "old" VooDoo3 3500 will pull 100+ fps in Glide (1024x768). I only expect the new card to let me do the same with Full screen AA, and probly at a higher res.
The GeForce2 is a nice card - there is no arguing that. But for the price of a DDR GeForce I can get a card that will out perform the GeForce, outperform the GeForce2 at high res, it'll support all my Glide games (Glide wrappers don't cut it), and I get open source Linux support. Case closed as far as I'm concerned.
Win2k is in dumb mode by default. I'm still trying to figure out how to see extensions under Win2k. RTFM would probly solve this problem, but what fun would that be?
I am using Win98, Outlook2000, and the preview pane. Yes the virus showed up in my inbox. Because I have more than one braincell, I immediately recognized the.VBS file as a virus and deleted the e-mail. Case closed. Is linux better because if you were to open the attachment it wouldn't work? That's like saying that the windows platform is better because a virus targeted for Unix systems will not affect it. I thought the whole point of Linux was the functionality. You can make it do anything you want. It sounds to me like the people screaming MS sucks over this feel we need an AOL style OS (OS for dummies) to keep dumb users from executing viral code. It comes down to user education. If you aren't sure what it is, don't open it. Simple.
MS did this before with Outlook 98. All it does it not let you double-click to open the attachment. You have to right click and save it elsewhere to open it. Hopefully you virus scan will catch it a that point. If you are paranoid, once you save it, scan it, then run it if you feel it's neccessary. I'll test this under OL2K tonight.
Yes they are clock locked. You you know what that means? No really!
Celeron 366 = 5.5x66MHz
What you can't change is the multiplier. You can go crazy with the bus. I too am running a Celeron 366 at 550 (5.5x100MHz) at nearly the stock voltage (2.05v).
It's no Pentium III, but with my "old school" Riva TNT + 2 3Dfx VooDoo2's I have no problem pulling 60 FPS at 1024x768. Chip / mobo and fan cost me less than $200.
I'm talking streaming television, at full resolution. No matter the way you look at it, this requires a pipe to carry the data
This is available now - I have it. It's called VDSL. 52M/bit sec. pipe. Three cable video streams (supposed to be able to do 2 HDTV streams as an alternative), my phone service, and a 1024k I-net conection over the same copper pair. All for about $100/mo. It's not the fastest thing out there, but it's pretty nice for a home user.
That's funny. I did the same thing this weekend, but with Storm Linux 2000. I downloaded the ISO file from their web site, cut the CD (On my NT box), dropped the still hot CDR in the #2 computer, booted to the CD ROM and was up and running in KDE in about 15-20 minutes from first boot.
What was Cool: The install was cake - could have done it blindfolded. This has to be as easy as it gets.
What sucked: During the install, if you instal networking, DHCP is not an option. You have to hard code an IP, then go back and switch to DCHP after the system is up. Once you do switch to DHCP, you have to specify the DNS servers as well (it won't pull these from DCHP like MS products do). My last complaint - Every time I log out, the network setings are lost. I have to setup DHCP and specify name servers EVERY TIME I LOG IN.
All in all it was fun, and I finally got a Linux box up and running. I tried out KDE and Gnome and I think I like Gnome better. As was mentioned before, Nescape sucks and my Evil MS Intellipoint mouse scroll wasn't supported. I was told on the Linux.com chatroom to try Mozilla. I went to the site and it tells you straight out that it's not stable enough for every-day use. No thanks. I had my fun Saturday, and by noon Sunday that same box was running NT. I'll build another box for Linux, but it'll be a low end box. Until it provides more than web browsing functionality (and even that is questionable with Netscape), I won't have it as my primary box.
OH - you want a "Tom's Hardware" comparison... Ok. Lets test GeForce 256 vs. V3 in Open GL 16bit. GeForce wil probly win, V3 not too far behind. Do the same in 32 bit color - oops, V3 can't do that (long rant why 3Dfx sucks), do test anywys to show the far superiority is a graphics mode no one will use. Lets not bother to do the same test is Glide. Why not? Oh the Nvidia card can't do that? Better not run the test, might make Nvidia look bad.....
I'm not saying the VooDoo 2's are the best thing out there. Heck the VooDoo 3 will rock Voo Doo 2's most the time. I've used quite a few Nvidia cards. I said I've only bought a Riva TNT. I've used TNT2, TNT2 Ultra, and Fire GL cards. All of them left me with the "so what" feeling.
As for your Quake performance, I don't doubt that. Read any hardcore review, the OEM's are tailoring the drivers to Quake. Any other Open GL app and the performance isn't near as great. Guess what, I don't play Quake III! Running around in a 10x10 room with rapid fire weapons with 10 other players is dumb. Id Software can never be Tribes, no matter how hard they try.....
I have to ask why another Nvidia card? I've been all kinds of dissapointed by the performance of the cards I've owned and seen. The only one I've bought is a Riva TNT I bought a couple years back. 9 FPS in Nvidia optimized 1024x768 Open GL was not impressive. I recently put a PIII 500 behind it and got up to about 21 FPS with a ton of dropped frames. I added in a pair of VooDoo 2's in SLI and got 60 FPS+ in Glide. If I was gonna buy a Geforce card I wouldn't bother unless I could get a DDR card. This is the only one putting out respectable benchmarks. My money is on 3Dfx. I'll wait for VooDoo 5.
I've heard of problems with the Matrix DVD but have not experienced any of them. I've tried it in my el-cheapo DVD I got on sale at Fry's Electronics ($150 DVD!) and it plays fine. Plays fine on my DVD ROM, my laptop, and two other Toshiba Players. Maybe it was a bad run. I pre-ordered mine and got it right when it was released so I'm pretty sure I got one of the first runs....
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They probly have in Win98/2000 too. It's part of their "accesibility options" for disabled people.
They are just taking orders. They are supposed to deliver later this month.
Actually, It's GeForce - didn't you get the memo?
$5.625 last I checked... nVidia was at $77.5.. and they just split!
Test all the cards at best API. (Real life use, why would I want to run say Tribes on OpenGL when it runs so much better on Glide?) The 3dfx card would shine here. I still play "old" games like Tribes, UT, EQ, etc. I want glide support. Back in the old days before Tom of Tom's Hardware became nVidia sponsored, he used to do best API comparisons. These were very interesting. Made 3dfx look real good. Now he won't even acnowledge the existance of the 3dfx cards. No huge articles when the 5500 was released. Unlike when the GeForce2 GTS/Ultras were released. Keep it up Tom - your sold out colors are shining through.
It's pretty much the same thing as DeCSS. I guess since they don't use PGP on DVD movies they don't care.
Use Yahoo Maps. Not platform dependant, easy to use, huge map database. Click "maps" from http://www.yahoo.com
Thanks
That's about all I got outta the site.
RDRAM is not to be confused with cheap. For the price of quality 128M RDRAM (800Mhz) I could pick up a Giga Pent. III or Athlon. Personally, I'll take the Athlon (no external cooling plumbing for me, thank you very much)
.mp3 IS NOT CD quality audio.
While I agree that the mp3 format has no loss when copied, mp3's are lossy when compared to the the original work. If the mp3 was a perfect digital copy of the master, that's one thing. Anyone who's "ripped" mp3's off a CD can tell you the CD always sounds better.
The "low end" VooDoo5 was beating the GeForce2 at high res. If you play games at 640x480, I feel sorry for you... sniper fodder.
My "old" VooDoo3 3500 will pull 100+ fps in Glide (1024x768). I only expect the new card to let me do the same with Full screen AA, and probly at a higher res.
The GeForce2 is a nice card - there is no arguing that. But for the price of a DDR GeForce I can get a card that will out perform the GeForce, outperform the GeForce2 at high res, it'll support all my Glide games (Glide wrappers don't cut it), and I get open source Linux support. Case closed as far as I'm concerned.
SQ
Win2k is in dumb mode by default. I'm still trying to figure out how to see extensions under Win2k. RTFM would probly solve this problem, but what fun would that be?
I am using Win98, Outlook2000, and the preview pane. Yes the virus showed up in my inbox. Because I have more than one braincell, I immediately recognized the .VBS file as a virus and deleted the e-mail. Case closed. Is linux better because if you were to open the attachment it wouldn't work? That's like saying that the windows platform is better because a virus targeted for Unix systems will not affect it. I thought the whole point of Linux was the functionality. You can make it do anything you want. It sounds to me like the people screaming MS sucks over this feel we need an AOL style OS (OS for dummies) to keep dumb users from executing viral code. It comes down to user education. If you aren't sure what it is, don't open it. Simple.
MS did this before with Outlook 98. All it does it not let you double-click to open the attachment. You have to right click and save it elsewhere to open it. Hopefully you virus scan will catch it a that point. If you are paranoid, once you save it, scan it, then run it if you feel it's neccessary. I'll test this under OL2K tonight.
I had a Cyrix PR233 that ran the AWE64 just fine
Yes they are clock locked. You you know what that means? No really!
Celeron 366 = 5.5x66MHz
What you can't change is the multiplier. You can go crazy with the bus. I too am running a Celeron 366 at 550 (5.5x100MHz) at nearly the stock voltage (2.05v).
It's no Pentium III, but with my "old school" Riva TNT + 2 3Dfx VooDoo2's I have no problem pulling 60 FPS at 1024x768. Chip / mobo and fan cost me less than $200.
This is available now - I have it. It's called VDSL. 52M/bit sec. pipe. Three cable video streams (supposed to be able to do 2 HDTV streams as an alternative), my phone service, and a 1024k I-net conection over the same copper pair. All for about $100/mo. It's not the fastest thing out there, but it's pretty nice for a home user.
That's funny. I did the same thing this weekend, but with Storm Linux 2000. I downloaded the ISO file from their web site, cut the CD (On my NT box), dropped the still hot CDR in the #2 computer, booted to the CD ROM and was up and running in KDE in about 15-20 minutes from first boot.
What was Cool: The install was cake - could have done it blindfolded. This has to be as easy as it gets.
What sucked: During the install, if you instal networking, DHCP is not an option. You have to hard code an IP, then go back and switch to DCHP after the system is up. Once you do switch to DHCP, you have to specify the DNS servers as well (it won't pull these from DCHP like MS products do). My last complaint - Every time I log out, the network setings are lost. I have to setup DHCP and specify name servers EVERY TIME I LOG IN.
All in all it was fun, and I finally got a Linux box up and running. I tried out KDE and Gnome and I think I like Gnome better. As was mentioned before, Nescape sucks and my Evil MS Intellipoint mouse scroll wasn't supported. I was told on the Linux.com chatroom to try Mozilla. I went to the site and it tells you straight out that it's not stable enough for every-day use. No thanks. I had my fun Saturday, and by noon Sunday that same box was running NT. I'll build another box for Linux, but it'll be a low end box. Until it provides more than web browsing functionality (and even that is questionable with Netscape), I won't have it as my primary box.
I'm not saying the VooDoo 2's are the best thing out there. Heck the VooDoo 3 will rock Voo Doo 2's most the time. I've used quite a few Nvidia cards. I said I've only bought a Riva TNT. I've used TNT2, TNT2 Ultra, and Fire GL cards. All of them left me with the "so what" feeling.
As for your Quake performance, I don't doubt that. Read any hardcore review, the OEM's are tailoring the drivers to Quake. Any other Open GL app and the performance isn't near as great. Guess what, I don't play Quake III! Running around in a 10x10 room with rapid fire weapons with 10 other players is dumb. Id Software can never be Tribes, no matter how hard they try.....
I have to ask why another Nvidia card? I've been all kinds of dissapointed by the performance of the cards I've owned and seen. The only one I've bought is a Riva TNT I bought a couple years back. 9 FPS in Nvidia optimized 1024x768 Open GL was not impressive. I recently put a PIII 500 behind it and got up to about 21 FPS with a ton of dropped frames. I added in a pair of VooDoo 2's in SLI and got 60 FPS+ in Glide. If I was gonna buy a Geforce card I wouldn't bother unless I could get a DDR card. This is the only one putting out respectable benchmarks. My money is on 3Dfx. I'll wait for VooDoo 5.
SQ