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No way, the V5 is the best, just tried 1600x1200x32 on my system managed min 64 frames on UT, hardware assist means no decoder board - but always 30 fps ???
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Since I don't have UT, why don't you try Q3 and make it a fair test? I like to play with all the features on high everything enabled like ejecting brass, etc. When I play with a few more of the options disabled, I get 61 FPS in Q3 Timedemo1 at 1600x1200x32bpp. Beat that if you can.

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Oh, and thats on a PIII 500 by the way, CPU's do make a difference. If you have an Athlon or Coppermine, you're likely to do better even though the Geforce 2 GTS is better than the V5.

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I know that CPU speed made a bigger difference between the GeForce1 and Voodoo3, cos the GeForce has some sort of coprocessor to take the load off the CPU, I think. I don't know if that's changed for these next-gen cards, though.

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PostIcon Posted on: May 24 2000,14:39 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
It's called a GPU. I know the GF1 and GF2 have it, but not sure about the V4/5.
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hmm since i have a slow CPU (celery 450) i think the geforce 2 would take more of a load off the CPU because of it's GPU. but does te V5 do the same?

Does anyone have a link to the Promise ata66 modification for the new BIOS?

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There were some comments about it over at OCP, but I can't seem to find anything at the moment.
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PostIcon Posted on: May 24 2000,16:55 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
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does anyone know how well the voodoo5 5500 tolerates out of spec agp speeds?
how about the geforce2 gts?
or even the geforce1 DDR?

No one can predict how well a video card will work when it's out of spec. It may work, it may not. Just because one GF2 or Voodoo5 went to some ass high bus speed doesn't mean the one you get will. The best bet is to get whichever card you like the best, if it doesn't o/c well, return it. If you can't return it at least you have a card you will like.

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I would suggest the Geforce GTS2 all the way. The V5 looks to suck comparitavly. The V5 does not have a GPU (thus does not assist with the CPU processes). The Geforce also has more/faster memory, with better everything. I myself though would wait for ATI's Raedeon. It's fast, supports all the bump mappings, has a great texturing pipeline. That is the shortest way I could say it.

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The "GPU" features only really apply to the onboard T&L, which no games currently fully utilize. Also, with CPUs hitting progressively higher speeds, there's not a whole lot of merit in the GPU argument. I know I ranted about the V5 6000, but I would still want one. The visual fx on the card far outpaces anything the GeForce 2 GTS can do.

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