# Finally...a GeForce II **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2000, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-geforce-ii/29046 "2000-08-12T01:06:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-geforce-ii/29046/1 "2000-08-12T01:06:25Z")
Woohoo! At last, it’s mine! 4 dual-texturing pipelines, mapping 8 pixels per clock cycle… 350 Mhz DAC… 64 Mb of DDR RAM clocked at 333 Mhz… 200 Mhz core clock speed… 1.6 gigatexels and 800 megapixels per second… 25 million triangles per second… Full scene hardware anti-aliasing… And it’s mine…ALLLLL MINE!!! MWA HA HA HA HA!!! Finally…no choppy frame rates…no jumpy movements…only silky smooth scene transitions and no lag processing game movements. Anyways, it cost me a pretty penny, but was SOOO worth it. It beats the shit outta my old Savage 4. ---
**Author:** ![Et\_tu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df788c/32.png) [@Et\_tu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Et_tu)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-geforce-ii/29046/2 "2000-08-12T01:23:31Z")
I’d settle for the pretty penny right now, but bully for you. Do what makes you happiest! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-geforce-ii/29046/3 "2000-08-12T01:39:24Z")
I got a matrox G400 a few months ago, and the transition between my old 4Mb card to this 32Mb card was astounding! But still, after a few plays, you start to notice how it could be even better still… we’re a sad bunch, ain’t we? ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-geforce-ii/29046/4 "2000-08-12T02:13:52Z")
Dammit, this slow piece of crap! I have all the options turned up to full graphics and all, and I’m only getting 80 fps or so playing Descent III. Damn it all. God, I love this thing! ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-geforce-ii/29046/5 "2000-08-12T04:20:26Z")
Lucky bastard. Oh, wait. I could afford one too… But can I justify it? ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-geforce-ii/29046/6 "2000-08-12T04:28:22Z")
Well, if you have any graphics card other than a GeForce or GeForce II, yeah, you can justify it. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-geforce-ii/29046/7 "2000-08-12T05:48:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Monster104 \* > \*\*Well, if you have any graphics card other than a GeForce or GeForce II, yeah, you can justify it. \*\* What about a Voodoo 5? (Not that I have one, or even think that I’d ever get one, just curious.) Also, OOC, which GeForce2 card is it? I’m waiting for the Asus 8800 Deluxe, myself (assuming they make a deluxe version)… ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2000, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-geforce-ii/29046/8 "2000-08-13T06:04:50Z")
Voodoo sucks big ol’ smelly donkey weiner. They shot themselves in the neck with a rusted nailgun by sticking to 16 bit textures on their last card. Hell, the Voodoo 5 and 6s still use the basic engine they’ve used for ages. They’ve fallen behind, and it’s gonna take a hell of a lot more than a Voodoo 6000 AGP w/64 meg ram to make up for it. GeForceII is, for now, the only way to go. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2000, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-geforce-ii/29046/9 "2000-08-13T09:16:53Z")
Actually, Timmy m’boy, if you wanna play Ultima: Ascension, you’d probably wanna go with a 3DFX card. The game was optimized for those. Of course, that’s the ONLY game… and it’s a disappointing game, t’boot. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-a-geforce-ii/29046/10 "2000-08-14T06:11:45Z")
Wasn’t Starsiege: Tribes Glide optimized as well? Think Homeworld, also?