The Viper is an excellent card.  The NVidia chipset is a pretty high
performance piece of work.  Either that card or the STB Velocity 128, which
has the same chipset, would be a great choice.  I have the PCI Velocity 128
along with a Diamond Monster card (because the stores are out of stock of
the Monster II) and it is a very powerful, very fast combination.  I'd
recommend it to anybody.  I've seen the AGP version of the Viper card and it
was very, very fast, too.

As a standalone card, the NVidia based cards are fine, but they won't come
close to the performance of a Monster II in 3D mode.  If you can afford it,
get both.

Drew Dunn
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - PC Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Qian Jun
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 1998 2:36 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Need help on 3D graphics card
>
>
> I'm going to build my own PC.
>
> My problem is:
> I want to buy a Monster 3D II card, but I don't know which 2D card I
> should buy (I want the fastest 2D).
>
> Could someone please give help?
>
> Or could someone tell me is Diamond Viper V330 good for games (I don't
> want a card that can't support complete set of 3D features)?
>