August 11, 2004
3D Accelerators
This surely brings back memories! My very first 3d accelerator was Canopus PURE 3D 3DFX Voodoo GPU! That was ONE of a kind video Add On card! Because it was the only 3DFX card that has 6MB of RAM AND a TV-OUT!, The old days, I was like ON TOP of the world when I got it, 16bit color, 3d Accelerated games,
I was so happy, then 3DFX released its second GPU the Voodoo2, SO! I went on to get the second Canopus Video Add On Card, PURE3DII, it was so nice, a really well placed fan, a light that indicates that its working, and 12MB !,
Then 3DFX decided to go Solo! And manufactured Voodoo3 GPUs , Voodoo3 3000 was the one I got, and it was working FINE too but, that day was the beginning of 3DFX death by NVIDIA!
Its sad when a great company dies out because of a rival company, but 3dfx made a mistake by going solo and stop supporting Voodoo Chipsets to partners, that’s were I decided to Change to NVIDIA Geforce.
The 3D BLASTER Geforce2 MX400 was my very first NVIDIA card, it was STAND ALONE, means not an ADD-ON card, it was PCI and was Ok for the time being, the first video card that has 32bit colors I got,
then NVIDIA decides to release their Geforce3 , which I had Problems with when I bought and ended up returning it, and I jumped directly to Geforce4 TI 4500 from 3DCLUB, the FAN was a disaster! It died really quickly, I had to buy a new fan, which was SOO NOISY, and the TV OUT never works!, so I got SICK of Nvidia, TO HELL with you!, and searched for another way for a 3D Accelerator card and found the ATI Radeon, after so much research over the internet about it, I finally decide to get one! The ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256 DDR-II RAM, from Gigabyte, I spent 180KD on it, I got it from UAE since Kuwait didn’t have that much Technology, the Card simply OWNS the GEFORCE, its size is reasonable and doesn’t take out 1 PCI slot next to the AGP like the geforce fx with its Super Huge Fan that does shit really,
Am still using it and its very great, doesn’t give me any problems “ Thank god “ because I really had it with Geforce problems, No TV-out works fine, always crashes, Over heat due to the fan that never works. I like the ATI, fast, good and easy, but now the ATI released a new GPU the X800, it’s a great card but the Nvidia got their new 6800 Ultra , that one is like a MONSTER, but still after all I went through with Nvidia last cards, I still go with the ATI, sorry Nvidia, u just lost a costumer ;)
Posted by snakeam at August 11, 2004 04:34 PM