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Voodoo3 3000 PCI
Page 1 - 3Dfx's PCI Version of Their Great Voodoo3 3000, for "AGP impaired" gamers
I'd would just like to start off by saying how I got this idea in the first place. I have
read about 4 reviews on this board, and not one of them had put the board to practical use.
So in this review, I intend on showing some practical uses of this board. Yes, I'm going
to overclock it, duh!
I have three different computers to use on this review. I will start the benchmarks
on the lower end of the spectrum, with the Cyrix 100MHz Box. 100MHz! Yes, that might be
a little extreme but I'll show you if this is a worthy upgrade or if you should save
your hard earned $150.
Let me show you 3Dfx's reported specifications.
- 16MB SDRAM
- 166MHz Core Clock Speed
- 7 Million Triangles/sec
- 333 Megatexels/sec.
- Supports resolutions up to 2048x1536
- Full 128-Bit 2D accelerator
- 350 MHz RAMDAC
- TV/S-Video out
- DVD Hardware Assist
- Supports DirectX, Glide and OpenGL
- Alpha-Blending
- Single Pass, Single Cycle Bump Mapping
- Single Pass, Single Cycle Trilinear MIP-Mapping
- Patented Multi-Texturing
- Programmable Fog Tables
- Sub-Pixel and Sub-Texel Correction
- Gouraud Shading
Ok, now that the specs are out of the way, lets start with the benchmarking.
Boxes:
Box #1
Cyrix 100MHz
IBM Mainboard
48 MB EDO RAM
1 GB Hard Drive
Smart 100X Max CD-ROM (Software Enhancement Not Used)
15" Monitor
Windows 95 (First Edition)
Direct X 6
Supplied CD Drivers
Box #2
AMD K6-2 400MHz
"Old" Soyo Mainboard w/ on-board sound & 8 MB video
128 MB Generic PC-100 SDRAM
10 GB Quantum Hard Drive
32X Max CD-ROM Drive
19" KDS Monitor
Windows 98
Direct X 7a
Supplied CD Drivers
Box #3
(2) Celeron 366@572 MHz
Abit BP6
64 MB Corsair PC-133 SDRAM
12 GB Quantum CR ATA 66
Asus 50x Max
17" CTX Trinitron
Windows 98 SE
Direct X 7a
Newest Drivers 1.03.05 (12-17-99)
The Benchmarks:
WinTune 98 - Video Test
-- Box #1, #2 & #3
3D Mark 2000
-- Box #2 & #3
Quake 2 - demo1.dm2
-- Box #2 & #3
a) Software Enhanced
b) Wicked GL Enhanced
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