I recently became a GF3 owner. I guess i got lucky, because i dont have any bleeding, fuzzy text(if i did i would be on the phone right now screaming at the company hehe) and just booting up tribes 2 to see what it looked made me a very very happy camper. quincunx FSAA at any res is nice. Personally i cant wait for unreal 2(quite a ways off i know) but more importantly Max Payne to come out. Some serious nice-age in the looks department 🙂
my pics look more like the second set shown, and no silly train games on my comp 🙂
while i agree its too expencive for what it does, if you have the cash you might as well spend it.
A few people(not on this forum) have called me a sheep for defending my card(mostly against the Kyro II) but I think thats silly. i owned a voodoo 3 3000 for 2 years. I bashed 3dfx for its lack of features(can anyone say 32bit color??) the entire time I owned it. i payed 150 then, which for me at the time was a huge sum. just about the same "size" as the 350 i payed for the GF3 when i look at my $$$ standing.
all in all, if you dont get one with poor RMI filters(i think that was the prb) the GF3 is an amazing card.
p.s. dont think im bashing the Kyro II, or the Radeon. Both are great at what they do, for the price they go for.