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It's a tie between a Voodoo1 and a Voodoo3

The Voodoo1 was the most amazing upgrade. A Voodoo3 is faster but it's nto as drastic between V1 and Software. I don't even find a GeForce2 to be that big of a difference over V1 as a V1 was over software.

The Voodoo3 because it's dirt cheap, no annoying passthrough cables or extra steps you just hook it in and it runs and does everything. I haven't found a game yet that run at least decently on it, and it has good crisp 2D. I've had 0 stability or compatibilty problems...it's just been an all around great card for me. I've had it since August 1999 and I'm still in no hurry to replace it.

I'm looking at an R200 value version hoping it has decent drivers by then or possibly an NV20 if it has a value version....otherwise the V3 is probably going to stay in my system for another 6 months.
 

Hey snatchface?, lol

i have that same chip the Tseng Labs ET-4000 w32i to be exact
in my old dell 486 i'm just curious as to how the refresh rate can be
changed and also what refresh rates it supports.

 
The Voodoo 2 for sure..... The first game I tried was Fifa 98 RTWC, and geeeez, it was like night and day...... Diamond Monster 3D II
 
If this is of all time it has to be the Matrox Millenium. In its prime it was The card of choice. Still kicks arse in 2d. Image quality was awsome. For an OpenGL card I'd have to say the GeforceII. Nothing really can stand up to it in 3d. If I could have Millenium 2d and GeforceII for 3d that would rock.
 
Voodoo3

First 3d card I ever owned. Put that in, and oh my, Tribes was purty! It has been replaced by a TNT2 Pro, and sometimes I wish I had it back...
 
Voodoo 3 2000 AGP, had it a year and a half, first 3d card I ever owned, and its still kicking ass.

Although I like my current 32 MB radeon AIW also 😛

I never miss the simpsons anymore 🙂
 
Intergraph Intense 3D Voodoo-Rush. 🙂
Only because I worked for intergraph @ the time & know how tweak the registry settings that allowed the card to run about as fast as the Voodoo2.
It was also one of the first 2d/3D in one video cards on the market.
ahhh those were the days, when 30fps in Q2 was impressive. 🙂

 
Rendition V2200 video card

I'm surprised noone else mentioned this. . . Despite driver failings and eventually a takeover by Micron, Rendition's cards had the sweetest looking graphics. I remember loading Quake with OpenGL for the first time. . . *drool*

Mark.
 
Well, I suppose it would be the current one I have since all the previous ones suck. 😉

GeForce2 GTS

But, the biggest jump in techno was when I went from an S3 (Diamond Stealth 3200?) something crappy to a TNT1. WOW! what a difference it made. Turned my PC into a whole new system.
 
I have had:
ATi mach64VT- no 3d. Huh.
Diamond Stealth SIII540- big pain in the arse to get working. Crashes in suspends now too. Huh.
V3-2000- worked right away. lovely image quality, good gaming.
ATi allinwonder128- fvcker didn't work right, really buggered me about. Huh.
Sis integrated graphics- hahahahah
Can you guess which is the winner?
 
V3-2000 PCI...

I still have (2) around the house, they NEVER let me down when I needed a testing/gaming/server/or performance video board.

 
It just has to be a Matrox Millenium 4Mb WRAM, (who can remember what WRAM/VRAM was????).

It's still used on my wife's computer for 2D. Solid, reliable, super support for drivers.

What more can I say, I'm crying....
 
Man I loved my Matrox Mistique. That was my first quazi 3d card. wow i remember putting that baby in. I nearly wet my pants.. it had 4 megs of sdram the ole neibors were comin' over to see the power. of course shortly there after my roomie got the newfangled 3dfx MONSTER and my little reign as the 3d bada$$ was over. Now I do lick mah geforce2 alot.
 
Semimaker: wram was windowed ram, not for MS windows but because of the windowed pipline the memory used. Vram was videoram, at the time it was super exspensive, I guess you could call it the rdram memory for its time being it cost twice as much as standard ram that was on video cards in that era.
 
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