What was the most significant gfx card of its time?

hohum · Aug 20, 2004, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Zardon

Its kind of like the VHS/Betamax deal, betamax was technically superior and flopped. I think alot of the people knew that 3dfx were going to win and just bought the slightly inferior hardware knowing there would be better driver and game support. Thats certainly why I did it.

On the subject of powervr, have you guys looked recently at some of the dreamcast graphics? like soulcalibur? those cards were WAY ahead of their time IMO.

Dreamcast had some excellent graphics in my opinion. It's just a damn shame that so many people shunned it in favour of the PS2 (yuck

), it would have been capable of some great things.

I can't comment on the 3dfx/PowerVR thing, as I had never owned a pc prior to August 2001 (the one i'm still using I might add).

The_Neon_Cowboy · Aug 21, 2004, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by hohum

Dreamcast had some excellent graphics in my opinion. It's just a damn shame that so many people shunned it in favour of the PS2 (yuck

), it would have been capable of some great things.

I can't comment on the 3dfx/PowerVR thing, as I had never owned a pc prior to August 2001 (the one i'm still using I might add).

far as I understood the dream cast system was a flop... No body shunnied it it just had bad pr or a bad rep. People didn't say good things, the setup was bad so it was "nothing" compaired to other systems....

I can't remember wasn't dream cast pay to play?

Zardon · Aug 21, 2004, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by The_Neon_Cowboy

far as I understood the dream cast system was a flop... No body shunnied it it just had bad pr or a bad rep. People didn't say good things, the setup was bad so it was "nothing" compaired to other systems....

I can't remember wasn't dream cast pay to play?

Obviously you never used a dreamcast

it wasnt pay to anything, apart from buying the games of course. I still think the dreamcast games were graphically the best in their day. I also liked the 3Do in its day, another flop.

Seems not always the best consoles win the wars - but certainly a lot of this is down to promotion/advertising campaigns! Look at Sony for instance, two of the worst technical consoles on the market and massive successes.

Dom · Aug 21, 2004, 06:52 PM

Dreamcast was an awesome system.

Logla · Aug 21, 2004, 07:12 PM

for me it is the Voodoo2. It was the ability to hook up two in SLI which really got me interested in what was inside of a pc.

After adding the second V2 to my very first pc, I was hooked on hardware and therefore that is my choice.

If I had a second choice it would definatley be the 9700Pro. The leap in performance was unreal and then of course I had just switched from using nvidia chips to the ati and I have never looked back.

Markius · Aug 22, 2004, 02:55 AM

i voted voodoo2, was the first truly "wow" factor card

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Aug 22, 2004, 06:30 AM

geforce 2 was just everywher and still is

best card for those cs nerds. but i'm proud to say i bought the 9700 pro at full price hehehe

mainman · Aug 22, 2004, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Zardon

Obviously you never used a dreamcast

it wasnt pay to anything, apart from buying the games of course. I still think the dreamcast games were graphically the best in their day. I also liked the 3Do in its day, another flop.

Seems not always the best consoles win the wars - but certainly a lot of this is down to promotion/advertising campaigns! Look at Sony for instance, two of the worst technical consoles on the market and massive successes.

I couldnt agree with you more on that Zardon, i just loved the Dreamcast, i had almost everysingle Console Sega made, i was always a big sega fan and still got the Dreamcast even after what sega did with the Saturn. Damn shame i say..damn shame...ohh well guess thats life.

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Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Dreamcast was an awesome system.

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Logla HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,311 Rep Power: 0	for me it is the Voodoo2. It was the ability to hook up two in SLI which really got me interested in what was inside of a pc. After adding the second V2 to my very first pc, I was hooked on hardware and therefore that is my choice. If I had a second choice it would definatley be the 9700Pro. The leap in performance was unreal and then of course I had just switched from using nvidia chips to the ati and I have never looked back.