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From:Steve Hodson
Date:31 Aug 2000 at 03:13:45
Subject:Re: PCI BUS BOARD Predator from eyetech

Matt Sealey wrote:

>
> Hardly, I can see a veritable ton of PCI S3 Virge, ATI Rage, nVidia TNT and TNT2
> and 3dfx cards around here. All nicely priced as well, sometimes much cheaper
> than their AGP counterparts.
>
> The new Intel 815E chipset has a graphics chip built in, and they don't make no
> odds about it sucking up the AGP capabilities of the motherboard (i.e. there is
> no AGP slot). Replacing the gfx card means using a PCI card. And guess what?
>
> ELSA announced (released?) a GeForce2 PCI card not long back..
>
> You'll go to the ball, Cinders, just don't expect it to be 'fast' ;)

Agreed...but it seems reasonable to assume it'll be faster than either of my CVision
cards...both the normal and the overclocked one.

I need to check out more places for cards over here it seems...

STeve

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