Yes it's true to me, I had a gainward cardexpert geforce3, revealed by anandtech.com as the best 2D quality in a Geforce3 card. Suffice to say it's blurrier than my voodoo 5. If this is you, get a geforce3:
You play games.
You turn on your OS to play games.
You think about games at school.
You don't do word processing, programming, talking on the net, browsing the web.
Your monitor is only turned on to play a game.
That's a bit far but my point is ATI and 3DFX and MATROX are known for more well rounded performance, where Nvidia is by far pushing the limits of FPS. The text is blurrier on the gainward I had, it becomes an opinion if you don't notice the difference or care for it.
I'm back on my voodoo 5 and for the games I play, and today's games basically - it's better than the nvidia I had, OVERALL for me.