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| Here's where we thought we would REALLY work the Voodoo3 over! We fired up Microprose's Falcon 4.0. This is one of the most demanding games on the market today! | ||
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| The minimum frame rates were experienced on the runway at a stop and with lots of traffic in the air. Max were experienced while airborne at approximately 5,000 ft and pointing to the ground. All scores were taken with all details set to maximum. | ||
| No current benchmark suite would be complete without a little 3DMark99 testing! | ||
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| Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new champion! | ||
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Drivers and TV Out |
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| Finally, 3dfx gives you a nice suite of utilities to tweak all the various settings within the drivers. Here's a screen shot of the properties panel... | ||
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| The Voodoo3 3000's TV Out Feature was an absolute trip on a 27" Trinitron Sony TV! The gaming images were fantastic and put a Nintendo 64 to shame! The Windows Desktop was adequate for navigation but you wouldn't want to do any desktop publishing with it. You probably wouldn't care to do such work anyway when you have this kind of toy lying around! Here is the TV Display Panel Tab. | ||
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Wrap it up! I'll take it! |
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The Voodoo3 in our opinion delivered on the claims that 3dfx made months ago when they first announced the card. We were very satisfied with the overall experience and quality of this card and it was a pleasure to set up and use within our system. Gaming Performance and 2D/3D Visual Quality have all been improved and enhanced substantially. We had a ball testing this product! After all, isn't that why you are interested in Voodoo3 ? The 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 has taken the lead as the best 2D/3D accelerator on the market today. Others cards may come in the future but this card will be sure to stay in our system for a long time to come!
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