I hate freakin Nvidia!!!!!!

[crash2much]

Damn Geoforce 3!!! Just when I think I'm on top in my neighborhood with my bad ass Geoforce 2 gts pro, they come out with this. I have a wife to remind me how inadequate I am, now this.

 

[Bignate603]

lol
of course the wifewill probably keep you fromdumping 600 on a new card...

 

[Noriaki]

Uh yeah calm down.

nVidia has been on a 6 month product cycle for years now. You should have realized when you bought that GTS that it would be only 2nd best 6 months later.

If you want to hate nVidia, hate them for pricing the GF3 at $700USD. Don't hate them becuase they have an aggresive product cycle, and you can't personally handle not having the best.

It'll be 18 months at least before that GTS is truly outdated.

If you have to have the absolutely best every 6 months, that's your fault not nVidias.

Look at me I'm still running a Voodoo3 and I'm still happy with it.

 

[crash2much]

Happy=unmarried?
Voodoo3 still=married?
I'm confused. Anyway, take the joke as ya see it. Nvidia has been good to me, I'm just a slave to the technology and in the back of my head I'll always hear that little voice "your system is good, but......" Damn I hate that voice.
Hope your wrong about 18month to obselete.

 

[Total Refected Power]

I'm running a TNT2 Ultra and happy with it. Don't let $$$ burn a hole in your pocket.

 

[Noriaki]

lol I'm 20. I don't plan to be married for years.

I have a Voodoo3 becuase I have no need of anything better yet.

I'm holding out for an GeForce3 "MX" type card. I might break down and get a GTS soon if the prices drop at all. I don't consider a GF2MX that much better than my V3...I don't really need the speed of a GF2 GTS though...I definately don't need the speed of a GF3, though I'd like it's features.

I'd get a Radeon...but I had one for a while and hated the (non-exsistant) driver support. The Radeon drivers are horrible. Also one of it's key selling points is DVD capabilities but I have a DVD decoder card.

 

[MichaelD]

Noriaki,

Prices have dropped on the GTS2. I paid $245 for mine back in the beginning of January and now I've seen them for $170 :| Typical though.

The V3 is a great card. I used one in my Dell for a long time. I loved it. But honestly there's no comparo between a 16mb SDR card and a 32mb DDR card. I'd say it's time to go shoppin! See 'ya.

 

[A2KLAU]

Hey I have a Matrox G400 Duel Head 16MB Card and I am happy enough with it! Its stilla good enough card for me! Runs games and the rest so I am happy! You have a GTS for crying out loud, and I have a G400! So be happy with what you ahve unless if youa re Bill gates or somebody like who can afford it and wants the best! GTS will last you for ages! Well over a year I would estimate!

Albert.

 

[JorgeElPrimero]

I have a Voodoo3 and am very happy with it but I have gone upgrade crazy and whenever a new product is released i want it the problem is I am in college its not that easy. For this reason I hate it when Nvidia releases new cards but hey there cards do rock and they keep the industry rolling so I am not going to complain. (I am going to school for computer engineering)

 

[TheVrolok]

I'm still happy with my GeForce II GTS Pro... I mean, before last October I was using a V3 2000 PCI and that's was nice, and about 2 months before that I had been using a matrox mystique 4 meg PCI card.. so this GeForce still makes me very happy.

 

[Pocatello]

The way I see it, new games make your videocard outdated, not new videocards. If you have the GeForce III next month, you still can't play Doom III. Perhaps it will make Quake III looks better because of better FSAA implementation, but not by much.

 

[Ausm]

LMAO off I am married and have a voodoo 3 3000

Ausm

 

[vexter]

I've got an MX and a happy wife. Glad I didnt buy that Ultra

 

[gcliv]

Hey Noriaki, I upgraded to a Radeon 32 meg DDR from my V3 3k. The Radeons are a great replacement for the Voodoos if you like the feel/style/looks of 3Dfx.

 

[nippyjun]

This pricing Mistake from Nvidia will hopefully give Ati a chance to sneak in with the Radeon 2 at a lower more affordable price with hopefully similar performance to the gefarce 3.

 

[Vinny N]

I wonder if we'd be going even crazier if the new NVIDIA products were priced "cheaply"? I mean, what if the new Geforce 3 was only $100? Would that mean we're all guaranteed to buy it, and we might as well set aside $200 a year for the two new NVIDIA products that will come out?

 

[yo2tup]

i still think my v5 is pretty bad arse especially with the new drivers just released a few days ago, HSR is fully functional

 

[SPAnDAU]

I have a question.

Two years ago, a voodoo 3 3000 cost about $250 CDN. That was the top of the line card, and undoubtedly took a lot of R&D to create. Since then, the prices for the high end cards has steadily increased. Is this because the amount of resources put into developing the chips has increased 5 fold, or is it because they know that they can get us to pay this much?

 

[netdude]

I just bought a Asus V7700 GeForce 2 GTS deluxe and it was only $205, August last year it was $335, it'll do for a while, i'm not running out and buying a GeForce 3 anytime soon.

 

[DeathroweR]

I agree with Pocatello.

My G400 can run pretty much everything; looks at it's best in Carmageddon TDR2000; not really enjoyable in UT; solid in Counterstrike; good in Q3 (which I don't play at all); has the best 2D and poor DVD performance; it also has best support across different OS'es.

I could get a GF2 now since they've become finally affordable (at $300 CAD) and get best 3D for now which tomorrow will be obsolete as there's no full DX8 support; poor 2D and good (but not universal) game support; but that just doesn't cut it.

I guess I'll just wait for the games to have DX8 or pixel- vertex- shading features before I actually upgrade.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

You people can complain all you want but you should be reminded that people like me still use v3's and plain old tnt2's and have decent performance from them. I say dont buy this extremely expensive piece of overpriced hardware and they will be forced to lower prices to a reasonable level. I would think most of you with Radeon's, GTS's, Pro's and ULTRA's can wait before upgrading again. I think the main reason for the huge price is low yields at .18 micron since that friggin chip has 57 million transistors. The high price is just to keep demand low so people wont see that they have bad yield problems until their refresh part is released.

 

[HomerSapien]

TnT2 U here. Im waiting for the Geforce 10,000 UTS SUPER DUPER PRO ULTRA and the new computer i get when i graduate..woohoo.

Mainly, the new computer.hehe

 

[crash2much]

The wife says I have to chose between her and the vid card. I guess I'll keep her unless.............hey , is their a vid card out there that lets you view porn sites in 3d, er, uh not that I'd ever go to one of them things.

 

[chuckieland]

voodoo3 here and very happy
may consider change if nivida can put some of those voodoo technique into geforce
such as geforce3TV with voodoo inside
then i will upgrade

 

[randomlinh]

dude, stick w/ yur wife man