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From: Pinelands <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Deference between 3D processor and 3DFX processor
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>For the most performance get a good 2D Graphics card and a good 3D graphics
card
>that is based on the voodoo 3 chipset.

I am thinking of getting a new video card, but I do not understand this.
How do
you have two video cards??  If you get a 2d card and a 3d card, how do you
hook them up?   Can you hook your monitor to either one and they talk
through
the pci bus?

Also, I play games on my computer a lot.  I like things like Civilization
and Might and
Magic as opposed to the shoot-em games like Quake or Doom.  Do I need 3d
cards with "high frame rates?"  What about high-res games like Railroad
Tycoon II
that use 1280 x 1040?

How does an SLI connection work?  Is it a cable between the two cards, or do
they talk through the bus?

>Kevin Hains
>Cape Town
>South Africa


TIA

Dean Kukral   [log in to unmask]

PS:  My video card is only about a year old.  It is already old, slow stuff.
Oh well...

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