Eye Candy, and THEN some!
Written: Dec 27 '99
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Pros: Great new technology, powerful chipset, excellent gameplay!
Cons: Gamers running superior Windows NT 4.0 won't be using TV-Out for a while!
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| vertigo13's Full Review: Leadtek WinFast GeForce 256 |
I bought the Leadtek Winfast GeForce256 card on pre-order through a company in Kentucky, that easily sold out on pre-order the first 300 cards they got their hands on. Luckily for me, I was in the middle of buying a new system, and I was quite anxious to finally get my hands on a REAL video card! Since the GeForce256 chipset was first announced (ending the rumors of the "NV10" floating around), I constantly checked nVidia's homepage for pictures and information on this new chip, and from the time I saw the demos and pictures rendered with the GeForce256 to when I first stood in the glory of pulling 220 frames per second in QuakeGL one Demo1.dem, this chip seemed to be perfectly for me, and any gamer, online or otherwise, that demanded a VERY sweet frames per second throughput, great eye candy with options, and new cutting edge technology like on-board bump mapping, cube environment mapping, 480 Million pixels per second, as well as the current "big thing", Texture and Lighting.
I'm not a rich guy. In fact, economically, I'm the lowest form of consumer (and the most prone for danger as well): the almighty College Student! I jumped on the opportunity to purchase this card at a BARGAIN of $227, although I would have easily spent up to $250 for cutting edge technology such as this! This particular card, while still limited to using SDRAM, is DEFINATELY a great card with the consumer in mind! Very easy installation, excellent gameplay and eye candy, and a TV-Out port to boot (which I probably won't be using until Windows 2000 comes out in February, due to my current OS being Windows NT 4.0)! I pull great frame rates, and while many argue that I should have waited to buy the DDR RAM equipped GeForce based cards, I decided that I wanted to buy a card that I could have immediately upon release of the GeForce256 chipset video cards, and continue to use for my purposes. I don't plan on running Quake 3 Arena with all eye candy turned on, in 1280x1024 with 32-bit color, or even 1024x768 with 32-bit color. All I demanded was a great video card that would last me for the next 1-2 years...and this card fills that requirement, with reliability and excellent performance to boot!
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 227
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