A Look At V5-6000

Heheheh. Now, THIS is an unbiased look at the voodoo5:

http://riva3d.com/v5/conclusion.html

Note, the name in the URL. Then note the fact that they gave a VERY positive review of the product. Not bad for an NVIDIA fan site, eh?

I'll bet all you people that are praising the GeForce 2, and announcing the voodoo 5's demise, have never seen the voodoo 5 in action. I have, and I will never go back to non FSAA ever again. And for everyone that says it takes too much of a performance hit, you're wrong. I've seen and played several games on the Voodoo 5 and it is frigging awesome. Once you've played for awhile with FSAA, you'll never go back. And for those that say GeForce 2 offers FSAA support in it's drivers, you're kidding yourselves. nVidia has got a fast card with the GeForce 2, but it does not have the FSAA going on yet. Heck, they only added support for it because 3dfx made such a big deal about the advantages of it. If you only play quake 3, then by all means get the GeForce 2 because it's faster, but for any other game it rules.


*not trying to start flame war, just pointing out that people haven't seen V5 for themselves, therefore making it unreasonable for them to judge the card's merits*

Hey I've seen the V5 running some games, also in FSAA and here are my conclusions:

- FSAA causes a MAJOR performance hit, most games become unplayable.
- image quality looks washed out and blurry.
- mipmap slider is NOWHERE TO BE FOUND (oh yeah, they MIGHT add it in some FUTURE drivers, what good does it do me in the MEANTIME??? Fuck that!)
- the 2D image is just above average.
- in 99% of all tests the GF2 is MUCH faster!
- the card is big and it gets pretty HOT!
- it doesn't overclock worth shit.
- some games showed texture trashing!
- a couple of times the system froze in games!

Hmm...good enough reason to massively RECALL this flawed card I guess.

>>D.

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ok, he under the desk but he is still doing my bidding!

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YES!!

Well, these retail drivers have for the most part made the GF2 and V5 equal performance wise. V5 of course has the superior FSAA while nvidia has the T&L (which is starting to become more pronounced... witness SoF, MDK2, soon Vampire, Tribes2 etc)

I imagine the mitigating factor for myself will be whats is available for what price at the end of June (when I'll be buying)? If 200mhz DDR boards are available I'll likely go GF2. If not, probably V5 (unless GF2 boards become cheaper, which is very possible given the # of manufacturers).

One thing of note with those firingsquad benches though... man 4X FSAA is not going to be anywhere NEAR a reality for current FPS shooters even on the V5-6000. 28 fps at 800x600x32?! 14 fps at 1024x768?! Even assuming a perfect doubling of peformance thats going to result in some pretty mediocre/horrific framerates. 4xfsaa is only going to be viable for games where framerate is unimportant.

Nvidia Stock

They're stock price isn't high JUST because of the MS deal. Sure that obviously helps but don't forget that the huge OEM's like Dell, Gateway, Compaq & Micron have been using Nvidia cards in 90% of there computers since the original TNT. That = profit, which in turn makes there stock valuable.

Thanks!

-Lex

Why do all the tarded fatheads point to Nvidia's stock market performance as an indicator of the Nvidia videocards worth?

Nvidia definitely has the superior released card and most of the market but their stock price is high because they are sucking on Microsoft's knob for the x-box action.

3dfx got stupid and slow and handed the market to Nvidia.

I'd still rather have a V5-6000 if 3dfx can ever pull their thumb out of their ass and put it on a retail shelf.

Thanks!

-Heywood

FIRTS POST !)@(!@(!

Wtf is up with not being able to get a Ghz Dell machine without Rambus RAM? Grrr...... I wish they'd start building Athlon machines with DDR already. I'm not so thrilled about the prospects of an Intel shortage, either.

Nvidia has bad Linux drivers?

http://www.linuxgames.com/articles/comparison/

"The results above establish two important points about NVIDIA's drivers: They are extremely fast and the penalty going from Windows to Linux ranges from slight to nearly non-existent. "

And...

"Even in Windows 3dfx has gotten criticized for their less-than-perfect OpenGL drivers, so to see the Linux drivers lagging is even harder to take. " ...
"This should be a clear signal to 3dfx that, if they are serious about Linux, they need to put a significant amount of effort into keeping their Linux drivers competitive. "

Read the article for even more.

Anon@gw7.tribune.com is in dire need of good oral sex.


Sincerely,

Marcus Allen
CBS Sports

Don't drag the rest of us in with you, Anon@gw7.tribune.com...

Linux drivers are a pain in the ass.


Sincerely,

Marcus Allen
CBS Sports

OMG....

Thats the worst thing I have ever seen....


How can Zoid go for that kind of action?

--

Rush Limbaugh

"Not that there is anything wrng with that

Oh, and Nvidia just released new drivers that helped fix the crashing when switching video modes in Quake 3.

If you want to bitch about them not being open source, great. But don't say they have poor Linux support or performance. Inform yourself. Read the article.