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I have had it with my current card, stb velocity 128 (riva 128 chip). Nothing supports it, d3d, opengl, all i can ever get is software mode low res, and its slow at that, i am going to go get a new card, im asking for some input, considering price and performance, whats the best card out there now?
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Sounds like you just need new drivers. I have a friend who used that same type of card successfully for quite some time. It's good for slower processors because it can do 2d-scaling in hardware.
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new drivers are a good idea, if not whats your price range
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ive already spent months tweaking my driver dll combos...and i cant get any good performance out of any game past q2.

price range, keeping it reasonable, i know i cant afford to get a geforce(as much as i want to)...

ive been thinking of a voodoo 3...

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you can get a voodoo 3 3500 for pci or agp for less than 150. if you bump up the price a bit you can go for a tnt2 ultra, and then overclock the shit out of it. i'm building a new system in august and i'm holding out for a geforce 2. 160 fps in q3. it makes me quiver.
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If you somewhat straped for cash what I'd do is wait a bit and try and get a DDR GeForce, if not the SDR is alright. Once the GeForce 2 has been out for a bit the prices of the orginal one should come down some, not sure if it'll be enough to get in your price range, but I'd wait and see.

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I've seen SDR Geforces as low as 赊 on the net, give it a month or two and it will probably be within your price range.

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if you're really strapped for cash and can't even afford the tnt2 ultra, just go for a tnt2 regular. they're down to 贱 (Canadian) so they've gotta be getting way cheap in the US. you'll still get great performance in q3, ut, etc. (you should grab the unified drivers for glide though - i think they're available somewhere on creative's site. it might help.)

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i think we should set a standard for canadian to US money before we start talking pricesi think its like 2 us = 3 canadian...cause there was this dumb canadian girl i knew who thought she was making a profit by getting paid 400 in US and getting 600 for it in canada...she thought she was beating the system...why are some people so dumb?...anyway, someone should check, 2us for 3canada?
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usually, you get about ũ.40 to ũ.60 canadian for ũ.00 american. depends on the markets...just guestimate at around ũ.50

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