Voodoo4 in October?

Well if you guys want some more low down on the next gen 3dfx product it looks like B3D might have some goodies. They recently went on an excursion to 3dfx HQ and as soon as their NDA expires tonight at 5 pm they are gonna release what they have found. The interesting part is he\'s talking about putting video taping something so we can see the tech \"in action.\" Does he have a board? It\'s hard to believe 3dfx is ready that fast. We\'ll have to see.

all i gotta say is V2+Q3=(_o_)
take it form me, I know

quote: \'Supposedly on August 2nd, 3dfx will be announcing \"next-gen technology\"\'

This is a page that have a nice summary of all the rumours flying around lately.
I\'m supprized that none of you have seen it. sTeve had a link to it the 7th i think..

http://www.penstarsys.com/editor/SO3D/SO3D.htm

#20, huh? what propoganda are you talking about?

both nvidia and 3dfx havent said much of anything about their upcoming hardware. everything on the web right now is basically leaked info, or statements on release dates.

i dont see any hype straight from the vendors.

as for the \"guarantee it wont be as fast as nvidia, matrox, or ati\" well how about this. I\'ll guarantee you dont have enough information to back that up.

yah ill have to admit that i was gonna bye a voodoo 2

i meen it was like the best

but now i dunno


thanx man =)

Basically I don\'t care who makes the video card, from the specs I\'ve heard through the grapevine it looks to me like both cards will pretty much haul ass.

I have some pretty serious doubts that either card will really hit those release dates, but I do think we can count on both of them being available by around november.

which one is faster? hell if i know. NVidia is pretty famous for claiming speeds that are faster than they really have. 3dfx on the other hand generally is much more realistic. (This is just a gross generalization, there are exeptions for both)

I honestly have the feeling that the NV10 will come out first, with the Voodoo4 following within a month and being slightly faster.

Of course, 3dfx needs to spend more development time on those drivers, NVidia basically kicks 3dfx\'s ass when it comes to drivers.

Which one would I buy? Dunno, I use a TNT2 for Quake3 right now though and it\'s sweet :)

dude calm down i was just asking which he would prefer due to what we know about that cards that are out right now.

basicly i wanted to know which of the 2 company\'s he likes better

cool it

#14 Why do you ask such a stupid question to Steve? You would be stupid to choose now as well. We don\'t even know the final specs. Wait until the boards come out and then buy the better one. If you don\'t your only the b*tch of a brand name. Everyone gets pissed about people following Microsoft blindly and now people are prepared to do it for a board company. Silly people.

#9 im with yah too

but then they have to throw kick ass movies like the matrix out to fuck with your mind =)

as i have seen people sa, the damn voodoo cards have little support for anything and if 3dfx wants to make it in this bizz they better smarten the hell up. i guess that sounded like a brokedn record

any ways the more clearly and faster i can brests in a game the better
so ill get the best of that best no matter what company.

p.s. there is no way in hell ill ever get a voodoo 4 even if its faster, not because i only like invidea, but beacause the v3 looked like shit, the scan lines alone should be enough to discourage any \"hard core gamer\" .

i could go on for ever on this and i will (which i wont). =)

what do you think steve?? v4 or the nv10??

Yeah #8, that MAX is neat. I have one, and after we solved some incompatibility issues (had to get a new motherboard, the abit LX6 didnt like the G400MAX) , it has been running fine.

1. Will it have Transform and Lighting? I have this sinking feeling that it might not, considering all the interviews and such with 3dfx reps try and downplay the importance of it? Then again, it might have it, just that 3dfx doesn\'t want to upplay something that Nvidia went out of their way to publicize.

2. Will it have no-penalty full screen antialiasing? Likely. In the list of catagories that 3dfx listed as important, this was one of the features. Could it be that 3dfx and Nvidia are switching priorities on this generation of cards? Nvidia wants the fastest chip, while 3dfx wants the prettiest?

Which card will I go for? Whichever ends up rubbing my rhubarb the best way in the end. I don\'t care if it\'s 3dfx or Nvidia. I\'m willing to buy a voodoo2 just to play glide games, or use a glide wrapper. Whatever. What I\'m not willing to sacrifice is OpenGL driver stability. I\'m absolutely sick and tired of a miniGL. Whatever I\'m going to buy, I\'m going to buy with the intent of learning OpenGL programming.

And those are my priorites. Who the fuck cares?

hmm.. ehhe
When the fuck did all this go down? heh
seriously... 2 months till voodoo4..
dang.. If 3Dfx has a viable product then nvidia will have some competition again..
i\'m talkn if its FASTER and CHEAPER and BETTER than the nv10 (doubt it) but IF it is it\'ll be nice..
but i think this is 3Dfx\'s last product b4 they bite the dust unless they actually pound the nv10
but i\'ll belive this shit when i see it.

f*ck nv10 and voodoo4. i want a card that i can wetwire directly into my brain\'s neural network and electronically control the nerve impulse of my brain, therefore providing me with an experience undecipherable from real life. then i want a game(or should i say \"software experience\") to take advantage of that technology with the plotline crossed between n a tarantino movie and a jenna jameson porno. whos with me????

I really do not understand people who are such die hard advocates of their chosen video chip mfg\'s. This is how I see it:

Say I decided that nv10 would be the god chip, and all those 3dfx fans were full of bullshit,and we all know that 3dfx is going to burn in hell and nv10 will be the second comming of christ. So I flame away on everyboard about how lame 3dfx is, and piss off tons of people and sound like a idiot, and be a zealot in general. So october comes around and both companies release their chips and the 3dfx one is 50$ faster and 50% cheaper.. So where does that leave me? I was totaly wrong and stupid.

That is why I don\'t think that way, and beleive that people who do should be disqualified from life. I plow through the known facts, and look at others speculations, and come up with my own, but what it comes down to is if the 3dfx chip is better then I will buy that one, and if the nVidia chip is better, then I will buy that one. I want the best, I don\'t give a shit who makes it (excluding support etc, I don\'t think I\'d buy from diamond anymore based on my own experience and that of others, but thats my choice).

A good quote to sum this up: \"A BJ IS A BJ IS A BJ\". simple as that.

ohhh poor baby\'s.

i guess this is 3dfx\'s last etempt not to suck ass.
they must be shaking there boots over hearing about the early release of the nv10

no matter how they want to think ther going to make it they wont

maby if they didnt make really bad video cards i would get one but thats not that case is it

NV 10 FOR EVER!!.. humm less crack for me =P

but is it a souped up V3 or a new card?