001 Maximum PC 9-1-1998 by Unknown

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rg) MAXIMUM PC SEPT 98 only other add-in card choice would be one based on PowerVR's PCX-1 architecture, but we wouldn't recommend it for your CPU speed. Ultra DMA drives are backward compatible with EIDE. Although there is a very slight risk of data corruption, we haven't experienced that, nor has it been reported to us. Confused About 3D I own an HP Pavilion 8260 266MHz Pentium II and would like to get a graphics accelerator. But every time I read an article, review, or preview I'm sent back to square one with more information but less of a direction in which to go. Since | have an AGP slot, wouldn't it behoove me to use it instead of a PCI card? Is it necessary to have more than 1oofps to enjoy a first-person shooter? Shouldn't the i740 chip be given more credit for delivering the numbers it did in screen resolutions over 800x600? —Mark Fecheimer The Doctor With regards to your AGP slot, use it! There's a mess of new 3D accelerators coming out that will give you the same 3D performance as a single Voodoo? card. Read up on page 86 for $3's latest, the Savage3D. Matrox is also coming out rip-curled and ready to pump you up on page 109. But, nothing coming out this Q4 will match the raw fury of dual SL! Voodoo?. But, not everyone has $600 to blow. Although 100fps is overkill for today's games, any card that can push that now should have the horsepower to pump next-generation games that will push twice the amount of polygons and bump up those textures at 40fps to 60fps. The i740 is a great entry-level 3D accelerator card, but its time in the sun is waning fast, as Matrox's newest board is slapping it all over the place. Six months is a long time in the 3D accelerator world. Can't Get No Quake-isfaction | recently purchased a Diamond Stealth II G460 AGP videocard that uses the i740 chipset and 8MB of SGRAM. I am having some problems running Quake II in OpenGL. The Intel i740 chipset is supposed to support OpenGL, and even your magazine commented on how good Quake II looked with it. Do you think Diamond altered the support capabilities of the chipset or does this sound like a common problem for all new videocards? —Open GL Blues The Doctor It sounds like you've got the older Stealth I! G460 drivers. Diamond recently released its latest display drivers, complete with OpenGL ICD for your Quake-ing pleasure. Go to www.diamondmm.com and download the latest drivers. Once you do, when you fire up Quake /!, simply choose the Default OpenGL driver and it should load the i740 driver. AMD Supports 100MHz ? | was looking at getting a 3o0MHz AMD Ké6. Do | need to purchase the PCioo SDRAM, or can | stick with my normal SDRAM? I guess the real question is whether the K6-300 has support for 100MHz RAM. —Neil E. Christensen The

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