Another choice, I think I asked this once already

[jdulmage 0]

Ok, I have a choice, both of these cards are free to me..

 

RivaTNT 16 MB PCI or

Voodoo 3 3000 16 MB AGP

 

now, Voodoo 3 has good performance, but the fact that it has a max texture limit of 256x256, whereas the RivaTNT has 2048x2048!!!!

 

I mean, that's a big gap between the two numbers...

 

which should I go for? Voodoo 3 or RivaTNT.

 

The reason why I've reasked this is because of the recent 3Dfx/Nvidia issue.

 

Thanks

[EddiE314 0]

i have both of those cards, i found myself using the tnt because of the better driver support and the ability to do far more with it, also the texture crap too.

[ACID 0]

Voodoo 3 all the way

the drivers for it now are top class

the colours are usually alot better then nvidias (no im startin an argument between geforce etc) and if u are worried about drivers there are multiple sites that offer custom drivers, (even ex 3dfx employes)

[theelviscerator 0]

go with the voodoo run a time demo in q2 or q3 using the tnt then the voodoo, the voodoo will smoke it....also you can oc that card quite easily and gain another 20% increase in speed.plus your gonna be able to run Glide and thats a plus

[GHackmann 0]

I say go with the TNT since the Voodoo3 doesn't support 32-bit color. Even if you can't see the difference now (I personally can really tell the difference, but some people can't), games will eventually require 32-bit color support.

[JimmyK 0]

gow ith voodoo3 ONLY because of str8 performance. Someone said the colors are better I belive that to be incorrect. The TNT is based on the same core as all the new nvidia cards, and it's 32 bit image/color quality is unsurpassed let alone paralleled by any 3dfx card.

 

To be honest Iv never used a v3 but I did use a voodoo banshee, monster 1 and a monster 2, and their colors were no where close to the tnt1 that I upgraded to back then.

 

Maybe I shouldnt be claiming the tnt colors to be better, but if the v3 is the same core as the older voodoos then it cannot be better.

[clutch 1]

The TNT colors were better in Quake-based games, and textures were a lot clearer than the V2/V3 series (wasn't the V3 affected by the same texture size limit as the V2?). However, the V3 is a faster card in 16bit, and I really don't see most people running anything on the TNT in 32bit with it being so slow anyway. I would have to say the V3 is better. Plus, it should smoke in UT using Glide.

 

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I just read jdulmage's post on texture size, so it does have the same lame limit. In addition, the V1, V2, and V3 series chips always yielded an overly-blended appearance in games.

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Regards,

 

clutch

 

[This message has been edited by clutch (edited 16 January 2001).]

[ACID 0]

what i was refering to (i own a voodoo 3)

what i have noticed on my pc and others is that voodoo 3's seem to have deeper , brighter colours

i agree the tnt does have a larger pallet of colours but they seem dull

besides runnin a tnt in 32 bit colour is like runnin a voodoo 4 in fsaa it has the feature to do it but no the balls