Diamond Viper II

[shoryuken]

What do you guys think about the Diamond Viper II? Is it worth the $39.99 (at www.computers4sure.com after rebate)?

 

[pen^2]

it is worth it for that price.

 

[MRFries]

You sure it's not $59.99 OEM? I am currently looking at this card ~$50 and thinks its good if you can stand flying trees and no support (basically a throw-away card). Anyway I heard there was a $50 rebate from Best Buy, Outpost, and some others. What's the deal?

 

[hans007]

yeah its cheap, the drivers are pretty mature now. It gives somewhere between geforce sdr and geforce ddr speed in win98. A little slower than a gf2mx, and well for $50 around, great card. Especially if you play quake 3 and UT , since it has special support in those games (i.e. metal api in UT, and can use the special texture CD)

 

[shoryuken]

MRFries, yes actually the deal at www.computers4sure.com is $59.99, but there is a $20.00 mail-in rebate. So final price is $39.99.

You said you saw a $50 rebate at Outpost and Bestbuy? I couldn't find it at either site. If you do know the actual site, please do let me know.

 

[Oracle]

Got one on the way to replace my s540.Best card i ever had,but couldn't resist the price.

 

[pen^2]

hey, 3dfiles says there was a new driver release few days ago... eat that nonbelievers

 

[StanG]

Just got this card from computers4sure. Downloaded the latest drivers, and installed
it w/o any problems (unlike GF2 MX which I had to return). So far, every game I tried works great. On my o/c Duron 800/Kt7/128MB PC133 CAS3 the 3D Mark2000 score is ~3400 (that's all "stock", nothing overclocked). Once I tweek it little bit, I should be able to get possibly couple 100s more.
Overall, I am very happy - after all where can you get this kind of performance for $44 shipped???

MRFries - aren't all video cards "throw-aways" nowadays??? At least when it's time to throw this one away, I won't be out of $$$ like all the people who bought TNT2 Ultras/GF SDRs/GF DDR/ GF2 xxx etc...

For casual gamer, this is a great card.

 

[Deeko]

I don't much care for the Viper II, but at $40 it is a very good deal.