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Old Aug 17, 2004, 04:05 PM   #1
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Best graphics card out there and it's not ATI or Nv
It's from 3d Labs. It's called the Wildcat and has 640Mb of onboard memory with a 512-bit bus so is twice as powerful than any other card out there
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http://www.3dlabs.com/products/produ...rod=293&page=1
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Old Aug 17, 2004, 04:18 PM   #2
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yeah and the cost will be what? look at some of there products they arent in consumer range but professional
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Old Aug 17, 2004, 04:20 PM   #3
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yeah very true it's in the 1000-2000 dollar range but i guess it will be able to run unreal 3 it's a card which has the future today
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Old Aug 17, 2004, 04:28 PM   #4
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I dont think there drivers are compatible with too many games as these are workstaion cards made to run progs like 3d Max, Maya, CAD and other rendering progs. I might be wrong though!
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Old Aug 17, 2004, 04:31 PM   #5
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It's from 3d Labs. It's called the Wildcat and has 640Mb of onboard memory with a 512-bit bus so is twice as powerful than any other card out there
more info can be found here:

http://www.3dlabs.com/products/produ...rod=293&page=1
for opengl professional apps yes (the top end quadro should keep up in most things due to slightly better drivers), for gaming no.
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I agree with zardon there crap at games and movies watching.

for CAD/Photoshop ect yes.

and these type of things are for people in the movie industry, your avrage joe would have to rob a bank lol
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Old Aug 22, 2004, 01:24 AM   #7
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hey does Creative still own 3DLabs?

btw that's a huge card! but I wonder what the 2D visual quality is like
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Old Aug 22, 2004, 06:04 AM   #8
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That Volari duo is a pile man. Even displaying this Doom 3 loveliness caused
the thing to drop to 1 fps. (Yes that's actually 1 as in one frame per second.




Article here:
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Old Sep 29, 2004, 07:56 AM   #9
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I have a PNY FX2000, $1200 dollar card, plays games OK not real great, frame rates are dead. Where it shines is in auto cad and 3D Studio Max. I don't even run on my gaming machine. It's in my storage server.

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Old Sep 29, 2004, 03:06 PM   #10
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PowerVR is probably the BEST "other" contender... sadly, they haven't released a PC part for 3 years.....
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Old Sep 29, 2004, 04:26 PM   #11
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I think that the best card out of the Nvidia and ATI is the Voodoo 5 6000 (4 cores not like the 5500 that have 2) if you can find the right drivers you can run Doom3 at very playable fps
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Old Oct 1, 2004, 08:35 PM   #12
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actually 3dfx Rampage was found and there are only i think 2 version floating around now.... although majorly beta... some people have taken the time to write a working bios and drivers for it.... but as far as that, i haven't anymore info..
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Old Oct 4, 2004, 11:58 PM   #13
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It looks like that card would put alot of weight on the AGP slot...
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of the hundreds of cards ive played with, id say overall the AX800XT PCIe card from Asus is the best. why? well it has the power of a X800XT, can be overclocked easily well past PE speeds, and has DUAL DVI out (rare for an ATI board due to additional costs) with 2 400mhz DACS for incredible IQ and also utilizes VIVO. the fan is quiet, glows blue for the case modders, and the heatsink is totally copper and also cools the ram.......
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of the hundreds of cards ive played with, id say overall the AX800XT PCIe card from Asus is the best. why? well it has the power of a X800XT, can be overclocked easily well past PE speeds, and has DUAL DVI out (rare for an ATI board due to additional costs) with 2 400mhz DACS for incredible IQ and also utilizes VIVO. the fan is quiet, glows blue for the case modders, and the heatsink is totally copper and also cools the ram.......
I've seen that Asus card and it does look godly, plus Dual DVI which would be a real plus. I haven't seen too many cards (mainstream, gaming) with Dual DVI but now a days it's becoming a bit more common.
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with all thats be said who says this is faster then the Ati card with 4 9700 PRO GPU'S and 1 GB of ram?
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with all thats be said who says this is faster then the Ati card with 4 9700 PRO GPU'S and 1 GB of ram?
you need to get more sleep or lay off the cola for a few days.
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you need to get more sleep or lay off the cola for a few days.
It's understandable, he just beat Warhammer 40,000.
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Old Oct 5, 2004, 02:52 PM   #19
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you need to get more sleep or lay off the cola for a few days.
4x 9700 pro cores and each core has it's own 256mb of mem, wich is the max they can adress.

you don't rember that? they are made special for the us millitary and thier uber expensive I read about it here on DH when 9800 pro was king.

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There are many cards made for military and governments, but that hardly counts in the context of this thread. Who says the 4 core 9700 chipset is ATIs most powerful board? But lets keep this thread to the realms of availability.
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I WANT ONE OF THOSE CARDS!

w00t!

I'm gunna go talk to my buddy in the marines and get him to snag me one!!!
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Old Nov 21, 2004, 11:05 PM   #22
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I know a fella with an XGI Volare card that is damn fast
but I cant get good drivers
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I know a fella with an XGI Volare card that is damn fast
but I cant get good drivers
You're kidding right XGI Volare?
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Old Nov 22, 2004, 12:06 AM   #24
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I know a fella with an XGI Volare card that is damn fast
but I cant get good drivers
ROFL good oneall most fell of my chair

even the top end XGI can't hold a candle anywhere near ATI or nvidia
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Old Nov 30, 2004, 09:31 AM   #25
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I know a guy who does digitizing for a tv studio and he has cards just like that. He says they cost around 3000
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Old Nov 30, 2004, 07:12 PM   #26
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tough question
Without trying to sound too facetious, I think the question sounds a bit like the following: "What's the best car that I can drive using fuel other than gasoline and diesel?"

If you're looking for good multi-purpose desktop video cards, particularly those that have gaming capabilities, you're fairly limited.

Matrox has great 2d cards, or at least they did ~2 years ago.

What ever happened to Cirrus Logic or those good 'ole 512k Trident VGA cards that you could buy for a $1/lb.?
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