A Note About Benchmarking
Let's dive right into everyone's favorite part of the review - the benchmarks. As a note, we believe that it is our obligation to benchmark using modern, current day benchmarks. For gamers specifically, this means using recently released games that have a reasonable level of popularity. The goal when benchmarking is to reproduce the conditions that gamers will be using the video cards under. As hard-core gamers ourselves, we have precious few year old games on our hard drives, but posting results from very old games is not indicative of the kind of performance we can expect from modern titles played on modern technology.
With that in mind, we chose four titles for benchmarking that are relatively new, with as many cutting edge features as possible. For comparison purposes, we benchmarked the 3dfx Voodoo 2000 and 3dfx Voodoo 3000 alongside their Viper 770 equivalents.
The test system was a PII 400, running with 128MB RAM on an Asus P2B-L. As you undoubtedly know, the Voodoo3 line foes not support 32-bit rendering, so 32-bit tests were not run on Voodoo3s.
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