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| | (Post a comment) » Removed: FSAA Comparison: V5500/ GF2If you're looking for our first FSAA comparison article, we've decided to yank it from the site. After a good deal of internal discussion today, we decided on this course of action because the protocols used in the first article were not the best possible way to base a comparison. As mentioned before, we're working on a new comparison test involving two identically configured machines, sitting side by side.
FSAA is a very complex topic, and it's certainly a feature that cannot be characterized, measured, or compared by any traditional means. Because of that, we're going to handle the new article with even more care and attention than anything we've ever done before. FiringSquad is committed to providing the highest quality content. We're not going to be satisfied with anything less than our best possible effort. |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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Anonymous at 03:23pm 05/15/2000
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oops. I forgot to sign my last huge post.
The Sh/\dow
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PsykoAGQx at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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As some other guy said before, if there were a clear difference
between the FSAA qualities of both cards, there wouldn't be this
argument. Therefore, I think , everyone should be happy with the
FSAA quality in either card.
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Anonymous at 12:45pm 05/15/2000
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What I really hate is 3DFX stating that the minimum requirements for
their V5 range of graphics cards is a P200 and a spare PCI slot,
yeah right like your going to get any type of Quake3 performance
from that. Can you also believe on the Voodoo3 box they say the
minimum requirements for the V3 card to run on is a P90MHZ. Tell the
truth 3DFX I know it you know it and the customers well hopefuly
they know as well. To get some type of performance from a V3 then
the correct minimum figure would be a P2 300 and for a V5 5000 plus
your going to need at least a P3 450MHZ processor if you want the
performance to be distinguisable from a V3 and a V5. If your running
a system slower than a P3 450 and you already own a V3 and you think
its time to upgrade your graphics card my advice would be dont. The
reason is because a system slower than a P3 450 will become the
bottle neck for the graphics card, so the graphics card will be in a
wait state, thus waiting for the processor to finish what it is
doing before it can get round to dealing with the graphics cards
data. The V5 5000 may well be able to chuck out over 600 Mega pixels
per second but not with that type of processor. So the performance
benefit which you will get on anything slower than a P3 450 with
either a V3 or V5 is negligeble. If your going to be running a
Voodoo5 then I would recommend a 700MHZ system. Geforces on the
other hand have the ability to handle the geometry which is the main
job your CPU will be doing when running games, what this means is if
you have a system slower than a P3 450 but faster than a P200 and
you already own a V3 it would be worth getting a Geforce1 or 2 as it
would b
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fur786 at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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There's always going to be arguments over the better card. In this
case, I believe there are more believers in nVidia than there are in
3DFX.
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DEVIL>:-) at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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Wooo Hooo! a believer!!!!
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Anonymous at 09:14am 05/15/2000
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It's kinda hard to believe people still think the V5's image quality
is better!
Even if you prefer the V5's 4x FSAA to the GeForce2 FSAA, don't
forget the GeForce2 still has T&L and per-pixel shading. Check
out the screenshots of Evolva et al on any GeForce2 review, and tell
me if you still think the V5 looks better.
If you're still not convinced, then imagine those screenshots *with*
FSAA as well.
Namarrgon
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DEVIL >:-) at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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Mcdonalds.....@@&@ you got me....you wish. I couldn't care less if
you don't believe me, just trying to give friendly advise, cos I get
the stuff for free and you'll have to waste your $300 on your V5/V6
before you believe me....still have it your way, get yer crappy V5
then benchmark it, I'll be here to laugh at you.
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Dr. Loaf at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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I know everybody is so busy comparing the Voodoo 5 and the Geforce2,
but are they really comparable? 3dfx on one hand are making changes
to the stucture of 3d visuals by implementing the various T buffer
effexts to create more real life visuals, where nvidia are giving
higher framerates... now the question shouldnt be which is better,
but which would better serve ones needs. Its interesting: Nvidia
going for better frame rates, #dfx for better image quality. Wasnt
this arround the other way say... 12 months ago when 3dfx didnt put
32 bit colour in there voodoo3?
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ChupaLupa at 04:22pm 07/11/2002
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Man dont get an ATI card. There is always a big hype about them and
when you get them there are like a ton of problems with them and the
driver coding. I've bought 2 ati cards and they have been nothing
but problems. Get a voodoo or GeForce instead, dont get the ATI
Radeon.
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Anonymous at 02:00am 05/13/2000
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I dont give a dam abot FSAA if I want to se somthing without jaggy
lines then I will watch a DVD movie. If I want to play a game then I
will use my PC. Graphics today are not bad that you need FSAA.
Mr W Fenton
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