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Rayzer · 17 Feb 2002

I'm not going to preorder mine. If you pre-orderd a GeForce 3 you paid $500, if you bought it a week after it hit the shelves you paid $400.

I'm waiting to pay $350

Rayzer · 18 Feb 2002

http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10319011&hdwt=31001&loc=101

Already down to $360 which is $10 more than a GeForce3 Ti 500 would have cost 2 weeks ago

Rubick · 19 Feb 2002

John Carmack
On the topic of current Nvidia cards:

Do not buy a GeForce4-MX for Doom.

Nvidia has really made a mess of the naming conventions here. I always thought it was bad enough that GF2 was just a speed bumped GF1, while GF3 had significant architectural improvements over GF2. I expected GF4 to be the speed bumped GF3, but calling the NV17 GF4-MX really sucks.

GF4-MX will still run Doom properly, but it will be using the NV10 codepath with only two texture units and no vertex shaders. A GF3 or 8500 will be much better performers. The GF4-MX may still be the card of choice for many people depending on pricing, especially considering that many games won't use four textures and vertex programs, but damn, I wish they had named it something else.

As usual, there will be better cards available from both Nvidia and ATI by the time we ship the game.

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just thought id throw that in...

Kaikou · 19 Feb 2002

that's why I got a Ti

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