Most satisfying graphics chipset launch to date?

I voted for this Radeon 9700 Pro, but I guess that's mainly because I came a bit to late to the party to get a V1.

My first 3D card was a Riva128 that had great reviews at launch but was such a pain to get working with Unreal and QuakeII that I finally had to get a Voodoo 2 (non SLI). I was also fairly happy with the original GeForce DDR, but this Radeon 9700 Pro is just a damn fine piece of enginering!

 

V2 SLI
My first card was a V2. After the initial wow factor (and wife's $300 shock factor!) I went out and did it again for SLI (and another $300 shock factor!).

 

Definately Voodoo Graphics! I remember the day when my friend called me (he worked at a shop that sold computer stuff) and said that they had just got a couple of V1's in. I didn't really care, but when I went over and saw what it was capable of.. man! I thought it was it. No need for anything better... Oh, how little did I know!

But that started my "3D Career". If I would have to choose 1 more, it would be TNT1. It was something so new, so different, so .. ahead of its time. Kind of..

 

TNT was cool but it was a little disappointing because they had thought they could clock it higher

 

Reverend,

That sounds like a great idea. Maybe we should use a timeline based on when the products shipped? We could use the Accellenation diagram as a model? I suspect once we see the results that almost all people reading and posting now will have started getting interested in 3D accelerators when the GeForce first came out. Myself, I've been around since the 3D Blaster VLB.

Tommy McClain

 

I liked the TNT 2 ultra, but perhaps that was because I was no exposed to hype. All I heard was wow the vodoo is so cool..., and then some friend said hey check out the TNT2, I did and it was awesome, still have it in fact, but the fan is going bad and the card vibrates so bad, it is put to rest in an anti static bag somewhere in here.

 

Without a doubt the V1. I bought one the day it came out(Diamond Monster 3d 4MB). Oh, how i loved that card. I then moved on to a Voodoo3, TNT2 Ultra ,Voodoo5, Radeon 8500 and currently a 9700Pro.

 

I voted for the PCX1 because it personally brought me a lot of satisfaction.

 

Where is the Neon 250!

As working on the drivers was the first fulltime job I ever had, it brought me some satisfaction.


CC

 

My list:
-Original Tnt ( great games at the time )
-PCX1
-Geforce256
-Radeon9000 ( great cheap chipset )
-KyroII ( tech satisfaction )
-Savage4
-S3 virge ( yes, i know!!!! )

 

Would have been the V1 were it not for the fact that it the only games worth playing for most of the time I owned it were tombraider & q1 (& the pxc1 was better with tombraider anyway).

V2-SLI, though, was something else & I don't think there's been solution since (or likely will be again) that was just so far ahead of everything else.

 

My all time fav was my Blaster Banshee.

I went from an 64 bit , 4meg, S3 Virge dx, that cost me $120 installed.

Four months later I bought a 128 bit, 16 meg , Banshee for $130 and installed it myself.....and thats how it all started

The Blaster Banshee was easily the best bang for the buck, I ever spent on my computer

 

Most satisfying?

If it were the most revolutionary or something like that, it's definitely V1.
But considering it's the most satisfying...it'd be R300...
I never had any need for 3D acceleration capabilities at V1 era.
3D at that time seemed too crude for my taste...

 

8) He he voted for the Apocalypse.....I still haven't been so satisfied as I was at the time when I booted up Ultmate Race the first time on that chip....the very first time I actually felt the "arcade" feeling on a PC-game (IMO).. and that on a good old P120 MHz ......well maybe when I played Unreal with the 3dfx Voodoo1...that was also one of "the" moments in my beginning of HW 3d on the PC.

// Tompa

 

ugh, where's the FX?!?!

 

i voted for g400. i still use it today and it was at its time the best card around, especially in 32bit mode. the quality was also top notch, not to forget dual head etc.

however i almost voted voodoo1, because bilinear filtering was a quantum leap and the voodoo really started the whole business. i was quite excited when i saw turok the first time.

 

3dfx Voodoo2 without a doubt.....

The R300 is great but you can't compare it to the grahpics quality+speed jump the V2 made......

The V2 gave more then I ever expected since you wasn't use to anything even close (I never saw the V1 unfortunately but b4 that there was..no 3D for the consumermarket).
Marketing wise they kinda even I think...

 

V1000

The Rendition V1000 I bought for VQuake came out maybe 4-6 months before Voodoo1 did. Later I bought the Voodoo1 for GLQuake.
(used to play CTF with Zoid here in Ottawa using VQuake)

Hmmm hard poll. I've owned most major 3D cards.... but from retrospect none of them 'til the R300 were really satisfying. i.e. I still wanted more power, more usable AA/AF.

haha I used to overclock the crap outa the ol V1 modded with P1 hs/fan.
Ahhh the ol days... sigh.

 

Well I forgot all about the rendition but The V2 at the time was the most satisfying groundbreaking card......


Try play a full Directx9 game(when it comes out) and you will see The R300 won't be very fast it can't even run doom 3 much over 30fps and that is still DirectX8.

The V2 on the other hand was fast enough for quite a long period.