What do you guys think about the G400?

[Bill Gates]

With Dual-head? Is that feature a hype or something you nearly use everyday?

How's the performance compared to a TNT2?(seeing that it's only clocked at 125MHz or somewhere near)

I really wanted to buy it for my non-gaming machine and see what's up but the price is mad. US245!! That's right! The price of a G400 MAX!!

People who live in HK.. Did you guys actually see a cheaper price?

How's Environment Mapped Bump Mapping anyways? Nice feature? What's the performance hit?
Could you tell me some bench results?

Thanks!

[cputnam]

Why do I have a bad feeling about this?

To answer your questions:
1. Dual Head is a feature that most won't use on a daily basis. It has great potential in the business world by having output to both a big screen tv and a monitor (ever try doing a computer demo while watching it on a TV? furgetit).

2. Performance compared to a TNT2 - there are a number of reviews that show D3D to be very close to that of a TNT2. In some "benchmarks" better. The only negative side so far is that OpenGL (read Quake II) isn't as good as a TNT2.

3. If you're using the card on a non-gaming machine, and concerned ONLY with the best image quality 'cause you do CAD or photo rendering or ??? this is the card. If you do a combo of 2D work and want decent 3D, this is still the card.

4. Ant's article on Bump Mapping says it all. For about a 15% performance hit you get better image quality.

While I have the opportunity to rant a little, it seems that game benchmarks have become the ONLY standard of a video card's worth. If all someone wants to do is play games, buy a PlayStation or Nintendo.

There is much more to the value of one particular video card over another than how fast it'll run a benchmark. The G400 has the advantange of providing (at least what I've found) the best image quality and color saturation along with very respectable D3D (DirectX) and OpenGL gameplay performance. It's not the fastest, but what it doesn't have in speed it more than made up in image quality. Something a TNT or TNT2 can't touch.

[Maggi]

Hi Billy,

just look into the posts with interesting topics ...

you'll find more info and opinions than you could handle

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Cheerio,
Maggi

I used to have some posts in my record and hopefully some of the guys 'n' girls will still know me and my system ...

[Quantum2]

Gosh MR Gates..with your money, I'd have thought that a 3DLabs Oxygen GMX AGP 16MB VRAM 80MB EDO Glint 2000 would suit your needs, at a little over $3000 bucks!