You'd also be guessing wrong. Believe it or not, it's faster to send information on a cable than over a radio wave. Razors also use gold-plated connectors, etc...
You even ignored the more important point of what happens when batteries run out.
Your wireless mouse doesn't have a 1000Hz Polling rate (or even a 500Hz polling rate). It doesn't read at 2000 DPI. Your wireless mouse will run out of juice, and leave you fragbait.
My Razor Copperhead does.
You can pretend you know about wired vs. wireless transmission technology all you want, but clearly you're talking out your ass.
I used to use a Wireless Optical mouse. I use a Razor Copperhead now.
The difference in my DoD scores has been drastic. I can say, without a doubt, that upgrading my mouse to a wired laser mouse from a Wireless optical mouse that runs on batteries improved my stability, accuracy, and precision.
You can think your wireless mouse is just as nice. You're wrong. You need to do the experiment for yourself instead of telling us we're wrong.
Some gaming mice have weights you can add to improve the stability of a lighter mouse. The batteries, in this respect, do help in this regard, however the translation of the analog wireless signal to the USB-bus interface takes precious milliseconds. Not to mention that signal strength decreases with battery charge over time. When my old mouse needed its batteries changed, movement was sluggish, spotty... leaving me fragbait.
When you're in the middle of a game, you don't want to have to take a time out to change the batteries on your mice either. That's why real gamers don't use wireless mice. This is one of those things that seperates the prentenders from the playmakers.
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Here in the US we enjoy free local calling. Most places in Europe, UK included, don't enjoy such a luxury.
It must be nice having a view of the world that's limited to your own back yard.
In all fairness, my older radeon 9800 doesn't even do Doom3 @800x600x30fps.
As far as being a "cheap-skate" pc gamer, you can get by with agp8x, and older componants. My system has been holding up just fine for the time I've been using it; but then again, I upgrade fairly frequently, and build my own systems.
Oh, and 3dfx killed themselves when they bought out STB and started making their own boards. They lost too many allies in an industry where you are defined by them (Canopus, Obsidian, Creative, etc..). NVIDIA was awful sore about losing their favorite OEM buddies, who became 3dfx's manufacturing arm (and source of lucrative OEM deals... that proved to be not enough in the long run). ATI wasn't even really a force in the gaming arena in those days... and the GeForce was just a glimmer in a marketing exec's eye.
You should've seen the price tag on Obsidian's Single-slot SLI Voodoo2 board when it came out... and that was still on the PCI bus, no 2D acceleration at all...
Bottom line is the top of the line always costs more. At least you know what your getting with hardware reviews. If you want to save a few more bucks, try to find a used or refurb'ed one ebay or something (I've found some great used & refurb'd gear over the years...)
I'd say it's more like there being an inherent flaw in the design of the deadbolt itself - it just so happens that anyone can make a special "skeleton" key and unlock this deadbolt with relative ease.
The US government is right now largly a mix of the above systems. That's what happens when the media browns on their obligations to fair, independant, and informative, leading the public in to a state of apathy and political catatonia.
That was very well put. The Mozilla team has to put the Needs of the Many (their windows users) against the Needs of the Few (their OSS-OS users). There are a lot more Firefox/Windows users than Firefox/Linux.
Why should the Windows users have to wait for the latest distros to get released before they get to patch up a security hole? And how selfish do Linux distributers have to be to force the windows users to wait like that? Meanwhile, exploits abound, and all users get screwed.
Fuck the distros. Its their decision what goes in to their software packages. Why do they think they can impose their will upon the Mozilla team?
Furthermore, if you call yourself a Christian, you have to believe absolutely every word in the Bible...
They're absolute fucking morons.
Maybe you need to look up what "Religious Moderation" is.
You seem to think that all Christians are Fundamentalists - zealots who take every word from their religious texts as literal truth, but according to you, this is the only definition of what "Christianity" is.
Religious Moderates take into account the scientific and technological progress of humanity to fill in the gaps that mere superstition and conjecture created in the belief systems they were raised with. (wow that was a mouthfull - read it again just to make sure you got it too)
I know some "christians" who reject the notion of Creationism solely on this basic law of physics: "Matter can not be created or destroyed - merely passed from one phase to another". How can god create something from nothing? And what created god in the first place?
I've always believed that mankind's greatest strength is the ability to call into question everything within their reality. These "fucking morons" as you put it are smart enough to realize that not everything preached to them from the pulpit is the way the world actually works and have decided to think for themselves on a variety of issues.
Sounds pretty smart to me, at least in comparison to the fundamentalists that seem to want to fuck the world over so they can accelerate the coming of the rapture.
You, on the other hand, sound like you could use some time to question your own faiths.
Totally! UT Rocked! I friggin loved that mod! It played so damn well, the maps were decent, the weapons were rad... the gunsight feature was totally damn cool... I always liked UT a lot more than CounterStrike.
And he's already stated he'd donate some of his winnings to Public Television.
I think that's so rad. I mean, here's a resource that (nearly) everyone has access to, and not everyone who watches goes through with becoming a member. I can't think of a better way to give back to something after it's allowed you to never have to worry about money again!
...here we have a country filled with and ruled by fascists and Islamic fundamentalists...
You're right about being Iraq being ruled by a fascist, but remember the US put him there.
But you're mistaken about the Pre-invasion Iraqi government's policy towards Islamic fundamentalists. Saddam spent much of his administration jailing militant Islamics. In fact, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussain actually hated each other more then they hated the US. bin Laden, the son of a wealthy capitolist oil merchant, called Hussain a communist dictator, and Hussain called bin Laden an Islamic extremist.
It is this fact alone that proves we were wrong to invade Iraq. Our true enemy was bin Laden, and he would quite frankly probably die before being beholden to Saddam for anything.
Of course, we're there now, whether most of us like it or not. Our sons and daughters are still coming back in caskets, because Bush secured the oil fields instead of the borders, hospitals, jails (all those islamic militants Saddam was jailing? and he had a lot behind bars, remember? bam! Where do you think all the looters came from?).
So yah, there were fundamentalists, but they weren't as whacked out as some of the nutcases they jailed. Those are who are against the front lines...
We should have been appauled at the use of "Shock and Awe" style tactics. We're the US, we may have the strongest military, but even more valuable than strength is the wisdom to apply it correctly. A covert operation to usurp Saddam might not have been completly impossible, had our president surrounded himself with smart competant people who wanted to make the world a truly better place, not corporate magnates hell bent on making money each time we drop a bomb.
1) My bank account is not really secret. I would be glad to send it to you - the only thing you would be able to do without my photo ID (and my face) or my password/key for Internet banking would be to send me money - which would be nice.:)
Um... actually, anyone with your account number can issue a draft to the back office of your bank; this is how the Nigerian Email Scams work. All you need is a bank account number for that, no form of ID required. Keep that number safe and sacred.
Agreed. I'd recommend what I'm using, a Planar (model PX17M I think, can't remember off hand tho) monitor that sports a 17ms Pixel Response time. If you're a gamer or if you use your monitor for any kind of TV viewing or video watching, look for a Pixel Response (often called Pixel Refresh) time of 25 ms or lower.
My parents bought a new Dell that came with one of their 17" 16:9 LCD TV monitors with built-in speakers. More inputs than you can shake a stick at (Composite Video, HDTV video, S-Video, Componant Audio) and a quick 25 ms Pixel Response Time. I really like it a lot, makes me wish I had one, but bigger ^^ I would disagree that it's of "the lowest quality," its one of the highest quality monitors I've seen.
I've found that Day of Defeat, an add-on for Half-Life, kicks much ass. My Girlfriend, who has always had a penchant for Quake (and Quake-alikes), took to this WWII-based mod like a fish to water. Teamwork is MORE prevalent in this than say Counter-Strike, where I've found most players as of recently are only concerned with their individual statistics than the team score (and getting the bomb planted/diffused).
Certain objectives reqire two teammates to complete on some maps. And did I mention that the elaborate, detailed maps are some of the best maps I've played in any game? Many maps are Cap'n'Hold, a "king of the hill" like variant of Capture the Flag, some are Attack or Defend (one side has the objective to blow something up before time runs out, the other team has to wait for time to expire before their shit blows up...), some are mixes of the two - one map has one side seeking plans from a downed plane (a la one-flag CTF), the other team has to blow up tanks with shoulder- mounted Rocket Launchers before the other team caps the plans.
Sure, less people play it than CS, but this can be a good thing - I've found players are of a better calibre than CS. They don't cheat as much, they appriciate good teamwork, and don't TK as much when Friendly Fire is on.
I used to play some FPS games on Dial-up, up until about a year or two before we got DSL. Things were great when most gamers only had Dial-up - I used to play A LOT of Quake 2 (especially ExpertCTF) on Dial-up, and during one of my binges, found my name on theclq.com's listings of the top ExpertCTF players in the world for a week (in the top 150!). But then the prices of DSL started to drop, and the early adopters were rewarded with lower latency, fewer dropped packets, and an easier time lining up sniper rounds.
I've also been playing a lot of Team Fortress Classic - again, less players than CS, but a better player you'll find, usually.
And Practice makes Perfect. FPS games are no exception. Sure, some are born with killer instincts, but the rest of us have to learn the maps (and appropriate tactics) on our own.
If yer ever playing DoD, and you bump into "The Outsider" (me), "Kagenin" (me again), lulu (my girlfriend), or "General Spanky" (my sister's boyfriend), say "Hi!" or something.
Yes, my Riva128 Board ACTUALLY had better visual quality than any of my friend's Voodoo1 boards. It also produced higher frame rates. The Lighting quality was substantially better after a thorough tweaking (stop by tweak3d.net to find out how). It should be noted that Voodoo1's only supported a small sub-set of OpenGL (which was internally tranlated into Glide), while the RIVA128 supported much more of the OpenGL API (with a few important things left out, but those are only used in games as new as Q3:A).
STB was one of nVidia's best players. My old STB Riva128 board (the 4 Megger, not the 8 Megger) could outperform every one of my friend's Voodoo1 boards at Quake2. They also had the best Vanilla TNT board out there - I almost grabbed one (and rue the day I settled on a crummy Canopus TNT board).
The V3 Made it into Dell's systems because that's just about the only perk it had in aquiring STB - its OEM contracts. STB was OEMing to Dell and Gateway among others. My system's an almost 5 year old Gateway that had a 4 Meg STB RIVA128 board in it. Of course it's only a P2-266MHz, hardly a powerhouse anymore, despite the recent video upgrade to a Hercules GeForce2MX board.
Let's assume for a second that nVidia doesn't completly kill off 3dfx. nVidia doesn't make boards, just the chips. They sell the chips elsewhere and go through all that licencing and other stuff that goes along with it. 3dfx did the same back in its heyday. 3dfx bought up STB, makers of arguably the best RIVA128 and RIVATNT boards, so it could quit the licencing and chipselling gig. I'm sure the idea sounded appealing. Take out a competetor's major bedfellow and gain some factories to boot. They would have STB as an in-house fab gig. They could also take stabs at some of the companies that made deals with both companies - Canopus, Hercules/Guilemot, etc.
Now in a bizarre twist of fate, nVidia sweeps in and cuts 3dfx's head off. nVidia stuck to the chip-selling and licencing guns, and out shot a self-wounded chip designer, aquiring the technologies, patents, STB (what's left of it, which isn't much), and of course, the trademarked brandname "3dfx" which may very well be the heart of this deal.
So like I said, let's assume nVidia cauterizes 3dfx's wounds. First of all, I doubt that nVidia won't be changing its plans just yet. It will still be in the chip-selling/licencing thing. But with another company that can make boards for them, on top of all their bedfellows (ASUS, Hercules, et al.), they'll be much stiffer competition for the contendors that do both chip design and board manufacturing. ATI has been wanting to step up in the 3D market, but still has a foothold all over the mobile video and OEM markets, and there's always been Matrox who has its niches (and some decent 3D hardware to boot, although they don't have much to compete with the GeForce2). Even though ATI and Matrox don't have anything that really matches up with a GeForce2Ultra, they're much bigger, and diverse that nVidia or 3dfx ever are/were. This is why 3dfx died - it wanted to go head to head with the larger beasts but didn't have much to strike with.
I would go as far as to say maybe we should expect to see 3dfx boards with NV chips at their core. After all, the 3dfx is a trusted name in the industry. I doubt we'll see it die out completly, but it definitly won't be what it once was.
I'd been using my old Canopus Voodoo2 for days. The on-board Fan (cutting edge at the time!) made horrible sounds, and driver stability sucked - the reference drivers sucked because Canopus tweaked with the Ref. design, and Canopus sucked for refuseing to release updated drivers after they ditched the 3D Market (they still make Video Editing hardware, but I've heard rumors they'll be pursuing the 3D market again with nVidia). Still, it played Q3A (for half-an hour at best, but hey it was better than my Canopus TNT board). My parents bought me a GeForce2MX board, and I haven't looked back. That MX chip is something else, lemme tell ya. For the price, it sure packs one badass rendered punch. I'll tell ya, I was almost tempted to grab a Voodoo5 5000, but I wanted to do more homework on it. Found something on SharkeyExtreme that showed every GF2MX chip outperformed the V5 hands down, and every board costed at least $50 less than a V5.
Wow, am I glad I did my homework. Half-Life at 1024x768 pumped out of a Pentium II 266. Never once thought that could happen. 800x600x32 in Q3:A, now (tho a bit glitchy at 25-40 FPS - I'll bet a Mobo/Processor upgrade'd fix that up-GF2MX likes AGP 2.0, and my crummy 440LX Mobo is too damn old). I was only doin 640x480x16 with my V2 (25FPS at Best! HA!).
Not only was Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Released, it was ReReleased as a "Greatest Hits" title. I own the greatest hits release, you douchebag. One of the best games ever released for the PSX. An excelent blend of the Castlevania storyline and Metroid-style platform exploration adventure. Plus, that thing had like a hundred hidden items that only enemies drop. Great Replay value, too, what with multiple endings and all.
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I'm not clicking on your link, and you can go fuck yourself for adding nothing to the discourse.
You'd also be guessing wrong. Believe it or not, it's faster to send information on a cable than over a radio wave. Razors also use gold-plated connectors, etc...
You even ignored the more important point of what happens when batteries run out.
Your wireless mouse doesn't have a 1000Hz Polling rate (or even a 500Hz polling rate). It doesn't read at 2000 DPI. Your wireless mouse will run out of juice, and leave you fragbait.
My Razor Copperhead does.
You can pretend you know about wired vs. wireless transmission technology all you want, but clearly you're talking out your ass.
I used to use a Wireless Optical mouse. I use a Razor Copperhead now.
The difference in my DoD scores has been drastic. I can say, without a doubt, that upgrading my mouse to a wired laser mouse from a Wireless optical mouse that runs on batteries improved my stability, accuracy, and precision.
You can think your wireless mouse is just as nice. You're wrong. You need to do the experiment for yourself instead of telling us we're wrong.
Some gaming mice have weights you can add to improve the stability of a lighter mouse. The batteries, in this respect, do help in this regard, however the translation of the analog wireless signal to the USB-bus interface takes precious milliseconds. Not to mention that signal strength decreases with battery charge over time. When my old mouse needed its batteries changed, movement was sluggish, spotty... leaving me fragbait.
When you're in the middle of a game, you don't want to have to take a time out to change the batteries on your mice either. That's why real gamers don't use wireless mice. This is one of those things that seperates the prentenders from the playmakers.
Here in the US we enjoy free local calling. Most places in Europe, UK included, don't enjoy such a luxury.
It must be nice having a view of the world that's limited to your own back yard.
In all fairness, my older radeon 9800 doesn't even do Doom3 @800x600x30fps.
As far as being a "cheap-skate" pc gamer, you can get by with agp8x, and older componants. My system has been holding up just fine for the time I've been using it; but then again, I upgrade fairly frequently, and build my own systems.
Oh, and 3dfx killed themselves when they bought out STB and started making their own boards. They lost too many allies in an industry where you are defined by them (Canopus, Obsidian, Creative, etc..). NVIDIA was awful sore about losing their favorite OEM buddies, who became 3dfx's manufacturing arm (and source of lucrative OEM deals... that proved to be not enough in the long run). ATI wasn't even really a force in the gaming arena in those days... and the GeForce was just a glimmer in a marketing exec's eye.
You should've seen the price tag on Obsidian's Single-slot SLI Voodoo2 board when it came out... and that was still on the PCI bus, no 2D acceleration at all...
Bottom line is the top of the line always costs more. At least you know what your getting with hardware reviews. If you want to save a few more bucks, try to find a used or refurb'ed one ebay or something (I've found some great used & refurb'd gear over the years...)
www.pricewatch.com
I use it to look for motherboard/cpu/ram bundles. Most places will also test, and some even give you the latest bios updates etc...
"Religion is the Opiate of the Masses."
I'd say it's more like there being an inherent flaw in the design of the deadbolt itself - it just so happens that anyone can make a special "skeleton" key and unlock this deadbolt with relative ease.
It wouldn't even take a savvy burglar.
Oligarchy - Rule by the most Rich.
Kleptocracy - Rule by the most skilled thieves.
The US government is right now largly a mix of the above systems. That's what happens when the media browns on their obligations to fair, independant, and informative, leading the public in to a state of apathy and political catatonia.
That was very well put. The Mozilla team has to put the Needs of the Many (their windows users) against the Needs of the Few (their OSS-OS users). There are a lot more Firefox/Windows users than Firefox/Linux.
Why should the Windows users have to wait for the latest distros to get released before they get to patch up a security hole? And how selfish do Linux distributers have to be to force the windows users to wait like that? Meanwhile, exploits abound, and all users get screwed.
Fuck the distros. Its their decision what goes in to their software packages. Why do they think they can impose their will upon the Mozilla team?
Kudos to the Moz team for sticking to their guns.
Stupid /blockquote tag - I knew I shoulda previewed first -_-
My calculus class starts on this monday... Maybe I should drop out now...
Totally! UT Rocked! I friggin loved that mod! It played so damn well, the maps were decent, the weapons were rad... the gunsight feature was totally damn cool... I always liked UT a lot more than CounterStrike.
Actually, he's stated his secret is...
Public Television.
And he's already stated he'd donate some of his winnings to Public Television.
I think that's so rad. I mean, here's a resource that (nearly) everyone has access to, and not everyone who watches goes through with becoming a member. I can't think of a better way to give back to something after it's allowed you to never have to worry about money again!
Hey, thanks for mirroring this, looks like the dude's server is crushed already.
Um... actually, anyone with your account number can issue a draft to the back office of your bank; this is how the Nigerian Email Scams work. All you need is a bank account number for that, no form of ID required. Keep that number safe and sacred.
Agreed. I'd recommend what I'm using, a Planar (model PX17M I think, can't remember off hand tho) monitor that sports a 17ms Pixel Response time. If you're a gamer or if you use your monitor for any kind of TV viewing or video watching, look for a Pixel Response (often called Pixel Refresh) time of 25 ms or lower.
My parents bought a new Dell that came with one of their 17" 16:9 LCD TV monitors with built-in speakers. More inputs than you can shake a stick at (Composite Video, HDTV video, S-Video, Componant Audio) and a quick 25 ms Pixel Response Time. I really like it a lot, makes me wish I had one, but bigger ^^ I would disagree that it's of "the lowest quality," its one of the highest quality monitors I've seen.
I've found that Day of Defeat, an add-on for Half-Life, kicks much ass. My Girlfriend, who has always had a penchant for Quake (and Quake-alikes), took to this WWII-based mod like a fish to water. Teamwork is MORE prevalent in this than say Counter-Strike, where I've found most players as of recently are only concerned with their individual statistics than the team score (and getting the bomb planted/diffused).
Certain objectives reqire two teammates to complete on some maps. And did I mention that the elaborate, detailed maps are some of the best maps I've played in any game? Many maps are Cap'n'Hold, a "king of the hill" like variant of Capture the Flag, some are Attack or Defend (one side has the objective to blow something up before time runs out, the other team has to wait for time to expire before their shit blows up...), some are mixes of the two - one map has one side seeking plans from a downed plane (a la one-flag CTF), the other team has to blow up tanks with shoulder- mounted Rocket Launchers before the other team caps the plans.
Sure, less people play it than CS, but this can be a good thing - I've found players are of a better calibre than CS. They don't cheat as much, they appriciate good teamwork, and don't TK as much when Friendly Fire is on.
I used to play some FPS games on Dial-up, up until about a year or two before we got DSL. Things were great when most gamers only had Dial-up - I used to play A LOT of Quake 2 (especially ExpertCTF) on Dial-up, and during one of my binges, found my name on theclq.com's listings of the top ExpertCTF players in the world for a week (in the top 150!). But then the prices of DSL started to drop, and the early adopters were rewarded with lower latency, fewer dropped packets, and an easier time lining up sniper rounds.
I've also been playing a lot of Team Fortress Classic - again, less players than CS, but a better player you'll find, usually.
And Practice makes Perfect. FPS games are no exception. Sure, some are born with killer instincts, but the rest of us have to learn the maps (and appropriate tactics) on our own.
If yer ever playing DoD, and you bump into "The Outsider" (me), "Kagenin" (me again), lulu (my girlfriend), or "General Spanky" (my sister's boyfriend), say "Hi!" or something.
Kagenin
Lies. My MX board kicks ass.
Kagenin
Yes, my Riva128 Board ACTUALLY had better visual quality than any of my friend's Voodoo1 boards. It also produced higher frame rates. The Lighting quality was substantially better after a thorough tweaking (stop by tweak3d.net to find out how). It should be noted that Voodoo1's only supported a small sub-set of OpenGL (which was internally tranlated into Glide), while the RIVA128 supported much more of the OpenGL API (with a few important things left out, but those are only used in games as new as Q3:A).
STB was one of nVidia's best players. My old STB Riva128 board (the 4 Megger, not the 8 Megger) could outperform every one of my friend's Voodoo1 boards at Quake2. They also had the best Vanilla TNT board out there - I almost grabbed one (and rue the day I settled on a crummy Canopus TNT board).
The V3 Made it into Dell's systems because that's just about the only perk it had in aquiring STB - its OEM contracts. STB was OEMing to Dell and Gateway among others. My system's an almost 5 year old Gateway that had a 4 Meg STB RIVA128 board in it. Of course it's only a P2-266MHz, hardly a powerhouse anymore, despite the recent video upgrade to a Hercules GeForce2MX board.
Kagenin
Let's assume for a second that nVidia doesn't completly kill off 3dfx. nVidia doesn't make boards, just the chips. They sell the chips elsewhere and go through all that licencing and other stuff that goes along with it. 3dfx did the same back in its heyday. 3dfx bought up STB, makers of arguably the best RIVA128 and RIVATNT boards, so it could quit the licencing and chipselling gig. I'm sure the idea sounded appealing. Take out a competetor's major bedfellow and gain some factories to boot. They would have STB as an in-house fab gig. They could also take stabs at some of the companies that made deals with both companies - Canopus, Hercules/Guilemot, etc.
Now in a bizarre twist of fate, nVidia sweeps in and cuts 3dfx's head off. nVidia stuck to the chip-selling and licencing guns, and out shot a self-wounded chip designer, aquiring the technologies, patents, STB (what's left of it, which isn't much), and of course, the trademarked brandname "3dfx" which may very well be the heart of this deal.
So like I said, let's assume nVidia cauterizes 3dfx's wounds. First of all, I doubt that nVidia won't be changing its plans just yet. It will still be in the chip-selling/licencing thing. But with another company that can make boards for them, on top of all their bedfellows (ASUS, Hercules, et al.), they'll be much stiffer competition for the contendors that do both chip design and board manufacturing. ATI has been wanting to step up in the 3D market, but still has a foothold all over the mobile video and OEM markets, and there's always been Matrox who has its niches (and some decent 3D hardware to boot, although they don't have much to compete with the GeForce2). Even though ATI and Matrox don't have anything that really matches up with a GeForce2Ultra, they're much bigger, and diverse that nVidia or 3dfx ever are/were. This is why 3dfx died - it wanted to go head to head with the larger beasts but didn't have much to strike with.
I would go as far as to say maybe we should expect to see 3dfx boards with NV chips at their core. After all, the 3dfx is a trusted name in the industry. I doubt we'll see it die out completly, but it definitly won't be what it once was.
I'd been using my old Canopus Voodoo2 for days. The on-board Fan (cutting edge at the time!) made horrible sounds, and driver stability sucked - the reference drivers sucked because Canopus tweaked with the Ref. design, and Canopus sucked for refuseing to release updated drivers after they ditched the 3D Market (they still make Video Editing hardware, but I've heard rumors they'll be pursuing the 3D market again with nVidia). Still, it played Q3A (for half-an hour at best, but hey it was better than my Canopus TNT board). My parents bought me a GeForce2MX board, and I haven't looked back. That MX chip is something else, lemme tell ya. For the price, it sure packs one badass rendered punch. I'll tell ya, I was almost tempted to grab a Voodoo5 5000, but I wanted to do more homework on it. Found something on SharkeyExtreme that showed every GF2MX chip outperformed the V5 hands down, and every board costed at least $50 less than a V5.
Wow, am I glad I did my homework. Half-Life at 1024x768 pumped out of a Pentium II 266. Never once thought that could happen. 800x600x32 in Q3:A, now (tho a bit glitchy at 25-40 FPS - I'll bet a Mobo/Processor upgrade'd fix that up-GF2MX likes AGP 2.0, and my crummy 440LX Mobo is too damn old). I was only doin 640x480x16 with my V2 (25FPS at Best! HA!).
Kagenin
Not only was Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Released, it was ReReleased as a "Greatest Hits" title. I own the greatest hits release, you douchebag. One of the best games ever released for the PSX. An excelent blend of the Castlevania storyline and Metroid-style platform exploration adventure. Plus, that thing had like a hundred hidden items that only enemies drop. Great Replay value, too, what with multiple endings and all.
Learn yer material before you post next time.