[ILUG] [OT] cheap 3dfx cards

[gary mc closkey]

Dixon$ are currently selling a range of 3dfx cards - specifically Voodoo3
cards ranging from £150 up. Of more interest is the 'Velocity 100'. It looks
like an OEM 3d card, but is in fact a true blue 3dfx Voodoo3. Here's the
best part - it's only £65.

The limitations are that it's 8Mb only and has no extra outputs such as TV.
The upsides are the price, the chip (voodoo3), it's also a 2d card, and has
almost identical performance to a voodoo3 2000. Anandtech.com has a review -
here's an excerpt -
"
We weren't sure what to expect with the Velocity 100 as its specifications
and press release from 3dfx were somewhat vague. What we found was
essentially a Voodoo3 2000 with only 8MB of RAM. The second TMU has been
disabled by 3dfx under OpenGL/Glide for "memory management purposes," but we
saw no disadvantage to enabling it via the registry key mentioned earlier.
[enabling it increases the performance significantly]

With both TMU's pumping out pixels, the Velocity 100 also performs
identically to the Voodoo3 2000 in nearly all situations. Further, with a
bit more cooling, our sample card would have overclocked to 166/166, putting
it right in the Voodoo3 3000 range.
"

The full review is here:
http://www.anandtech.com/html/articledisplay.cfm?document=1076

I'm getting mine next week-end, and thought you guys might appreciate the
info. Disclaimer - I don't work for Dixons/3dfx and have no commercial
interest in it.

GMC


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