Cool!! Dig that crazy Medusa cable 8)

Make me want to upgrade again

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Whatcha' mean "ARGH!"... ???

...if you check the forum, you'll find that a LOT of 3Dfx fans are also people who like ATI stuff...

...and don't particularly lean towards nVidia!

I also choose for the once ever underdog ATi, thier cards just have way better image quallity, had a 6800 once, FS 2004 had lot's of terrible artifacts on the buildings, and when I used my old Hercules 9700 Pro, they were gone, even OpenGL looks nicer on an ATi, okay they maybe slower than NV cards in OpenGL it's just because that the image quallity is alot better , therefore heavier to render.

So I rather go for a card that gives better Image quallity with 70 frame than a card with worse quallity at 140 frames., I have leaned alot from ATi.

ATi Crossfire X850XT with an ATi X850XT PE rocks, they even can beat the 7800 SLI set in some cases.
Just look how sweet, and yeah it sure looks alot like 3dfx did with the Voodoo2 Scane Line Interleave idea.

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http://img.neoseeker.com/v_thumb.phparticleid=1803&image=15

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I also prefer IQ over speed, to a point that is.

You could probably get the same speed from the ATI rig if you dumb down the IQ to look like the NV. But you can't always get the NV to look as good as the ATI.

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They should be above the Fury Maxx as they perform better 

I have recently done lots of game testing using older ati cards. Running the Maxx on my 1ghz pentium 3 & Win 98 system with various popular games like: Quake 3, Soldier of Fortune, Serious Sam, Porsche Unleashed, Unreal Tournament and many more, all exhibited the same type of behaviour of not feeling fluid during gameplay. Even when setting a game's options up so that fraps showed what should have been excellent gaming fps, games just felt laggy and unresponsive.

The same games running on the same system with a voodoo 3 were much more enjoyable to play, although to be fair they looked a bit better on the Maxx in 32 bit colour, but the Voodoo 3 was far superiour for pure gaming enjoyment 

As for comparing the Maxx to the similar dual gpu 64mb Voodoo 5500, no contest whatsoever, 3dfx by far had the the much better SLI technology and better looking 32 bit colour output as well.

Only until the release of the Radeon 7500 did ati have a card that could somewhat compete with a Voodoo 5500 

Ati's new approach will have to much better than the AFR technique used in the Maxx or it will be received about as well as the Maxx was 

I got two brand new ones (boxed and shrink wrapped) for $25 Canadian at a local shop about 6 months ago.

Probably a must have card (if you collect ati cards like me that is).

Is there a technical limitation/reason that would'nt allow a dual gpu card to run on pci express, I would think it would be far more cost effective than to have to purchase two individual cards at  $500 +  ???

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2 Voodoo2 cards connected via a floppy cable was way ahead of it's time