in owning a V5, can only offer the following
the V5 is probabbly the most dissapointing card of the V line, but by no means does it suck, it does indeed run all games very well, not just Q3. I will just leave it at that. like said above, anyone who simply says "get the Geforce , 3dfx sucks " is truely ignorant and it's indeed very sad that they could not see the things the V5 does good
Pros for V5
- Runs everything acceptably and is compatible ( anyone who says geforces have less problems is full of it )
- Excellent for hi-res gaming in almost every game ( not all though )
Cons for V5
- underpoerformer in low-res gaming ( yes, some people actually care about perforance in 640x480 still, thats why I am not 100% fond of this card and my #1 concern )
- the 64 meg is really 32, but other than that 32 is ok in fact, at least in 3dfx land it's ok
- obviusly does not having any bells and whistle to brag off such as the TnL and stuff
things that people talk about that really mean jack sh1t
- the DDR Vs SD ram thing ( for anyone that really wants to know, two duplicated banks of SD_ram feeding SLI VS 1 bank of DDR is not entirely much differant in the end )
- TnL Vs FSAA ( come on, who cares, FSAA is not really that exciting, and TnL is still not really used to any drastic extent)
- 1 chip vs 2, who gives a rats ass how you come to the solution, 2 chips cost lots of money, DDR ram costs alot of money, the point of this useless argument may I ask? ( heh, at least the V5 looks cool )
- the V5 is so big, once again, who cares, it looks cool, and if you have a case where it does not fit, I pitty you.
- the V5 is expensive or the geforce is expensive... Dammit, they are both obsurdly expensive, it's sick.
- Tom and anand say this and that - well, I say they both have good points when actually playing a game, speaking from beyond just running demo1. So now you can say.... Zeroumus says ......
to orginal poster:
Honestly, you just have to try both to know for your self, there are many small details about game play that you might notice netween the cards that go far beyond the benchmarks people point you to