re: vid cards (Score 1)

hey- I used a TNT 2 back in the day when I had my pentium II 350mhz gaming machine. It was like 98, so i had my reasons. It was great. I got it for what $30 so I could play RTCW since my crappy card at the time didn't support open GL. Granted now I have myself i nice athlon xp 2700, and an nvidia quadro 4 gl somethign or other, and It's great. But I got about 3 years out of that TNT before I upgraded to a geforce 2 mx 400. (i know i know, I was a low-budget gamer at the time, but now i have a job. But I guess my point is, old technology works. yes, there are better things out there. But I would rather have last years model, because by then all the kinks (overheating etc. are genrally worked out. I'll be using my quddro 4 for at least another year till i probly for a 5700.