Obi-Wan_Kenobi
Ex Member
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everyone has thier own opinion and they must do what is best ofcourse...
The ATi 9700 Pro really changed the world in 3D graphics like the Voodoo Graphics did back in '96.
I have always had ATi since I had the 9700 Pro, never wanted anything else, like NV has used cheats with thier drivers, ATi PWNzz all, and especially with the Best overall Image Quallity in the world. 2D nears that of Matrox and 3D there is no better clearence that that of ATi, I have the AUS ATi Radeon X800XT Platinum Edition and man it's alot better than the GeForce 6800GT in D3D games with Shader Model 2.0, but in OpenGL the GeForce has the upper hand.
every card has it's own speciallity, ATi = Best in D3D, nVidia Best in OpenGL & T&L, S3 best in Texture Compression aka S3TC, segment, Matrox best in Multi monitor support and best in 2D. Matrox always had av ey good name even the Matrox Millenium G100 was the best 2D card in the world.
but 3Dfx did make it's day back in '96 agree with that, but to me it was wierd and stup[id stuff, You had to buy a 3Dfx card to play a certain type of game, OpenGL wasn't compatible, so it wasn't that kind for the owners that didn't have the cash to buy one, because they wouldn't be able to play a certain amount of games, so it was still a pain when 3Dfx came, I really started lik'n 3dfx with thier Voodoo3 3000 AGP why> well because you didn't need to put sepperate cards in a system, it had the Glide API, OpenGL and D3D in one, which was more pleasant for install and more user friendly.
Though SLi Voodoo2 was ver powerfull at it's time also.
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