On 29 Mar 98 at 22:18, Drew Dunn wrote:

> 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.

  This has been the conventional wisdom for some months, based on the
STB card (which Drew referred to earlier in this message).  Over the
weekend, though, I saw a Riva card (which I understood to use that
same nVidia chip set), and its performance, straight out of the box,
was about 70% more than anyone had expected based on benchmarking the
STB card, and quite competitive.

David G