RSSVisionTek GeForce3 Hits Store Shelves
By Mike Darrah | Published May 6, 2001, 3:41 AM
The long awaited debut of the GeForce3 for the PC has arrived on store shelves, with VisionTek shipping their GeForce3 card starting this past Friday to major retailers, including Electronics Boutique, CompUSA, Best Buy among others.
The GeForce3 chipset from NVIDIA brings the power of the nfiniteFX Engine, Lightspeed Memory Architecture, High-Resolution Antialiasing (HRAA), along with a High-Definition Video Processor (HDVP) and other standard high-end card goodies such as TV-out. All of which allow the card to reach levels of performance that will make anyone from hard-core gamer, to grandmother drool at the visual effects. The card packs in 64MB of DDR SDRAM, which through the use of the Lightspeed Memory Architecture of the card, is capable of reaching an astonishing 7.36GB per second.
The VisionTek GeForce3 can be found on pricewatch.com for $355 USD and up (minus shipping and potential tax), or may be picked up at your local EB for $399 USD. NVIDIA is expected to launch its lower-cost NV17 chipset, or 'GeForce3 MX', at the beginning of summer for under $150 USD.
BetaNews would like to know how you think the third-generation GeForce stacks up, post your findings below.
I got mine on Thursday. Of course, the local EB only got 1 in and had close to 40 people on the waiting list. Gotta love those reserve programs.
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|hey pal, do me a favor...
Pass me that joint, you definitly do not need another hit.
My god, you spent $400+ for a friggan video card... you should have waited a few months until the price dropped
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|Personaly spending 400 for a high end video car isnt that bad. considering what it can be used for and if you are going to do anythign besides gaming.
I have one on hold for me for monday... cant wait
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|Well, I have 3 computers at home that uses Geforce 2 GTS 64mb DDR that costed $350 each... I'd be another person who would upgrade. :)
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|Not to mention I have a Geforce 2 Ultra in my LAN party machine, a Radeon 64 VIVO sitting here on my desk and a GeForce 2 GTS in my wife's machine.
Some people just like hardware. Hardware is my hobby I guess.
And as far as the GF3, it isn't THAT much faster than my GF2 Ultra, however, the new Quincunx Anitialiasing is worth the price of admission alone. It really works VERY well with a negligible performance hit.
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|what the hell is wrong with you. spend $400 on a new car
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|whoah ... can I buy the 2's off ya? :-)
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|New car for $400 eh? I'd hate to have drive something like that...
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|Dude, he said exactly what was wrong with him: "LAN Party"
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|This card is by far the best piece of graphics equipment ever made for a desktop PC. You are an idiot if you think somebody is dumb for buying one of these. If you could afford it, you'd buy one too. Stop being a jealous a******
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|Right On!
By the way, I saw this guy at eBay selling "information" on how to get a card at $319. The information is nothing more than $40 off rebate code, CA200, at Gateway Accessory Store, and this guy is trying to sell the information at $19. I wish there is a was to warn people of this little rip-off.
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|You fell for his little eBay scam, did you? Hehe.
Well, at least your warning might prevent other, equally gullible people from making the same mistake.
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|Its the best graphics card ever to be marketed so far and people like yourselfs are not giving it what it deserves all because it is out of your price range,that is what i would call envy of what you can not afford and you have to put down the card and say its far to expensive which i dont think it is,just because you can not have one.
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|It might be the best card out there, but it will probably STILL be the best card out there in a months time, except it will have probably had about 25% chopped off its price by then. How much of an idiot are the people that "have" to have it within the first week going to look then?
Personally I think you're all quite sad to pay that much to get barely noticable performance increase. My Geforce256 still runs all games i throw at it quite respectably.
Oh btw, I could easily afford one today, I just dont think its justifiable to spend that much on something I KNOW will be nearly half the price in a month or two.
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|You have a point about the price dropping, however, let me also point out for someone who constantly upgrades hardware, waiting is the worst thing that you can do. Why? Because while the Geforce 3's price is dropping, so is everything else and your old hardware becomes worth nothing. I would rather upgrade now than lose my a** upgrading in 6 months because my Geforce 2 GTS I payed $399.00 for is now worth $100.00. I sold my Radeon when I got the Geforce 3. I paid $219.00 for it, got a $30.00 rebate for a total of $189.00. I sold it for $145.00. I can live with that loss. Wait 6 months and it will be worth $50-100 at best.
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|I think you've struck your head on a blunt object.
LAN gaming is very fun, and the larger the better.
Your attitude towards fun activities like this make be think you're a typical suit-wearing businessman, who has been drained of all life.
Take it easy, buddy!
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|Lan Parties... damn I miss my weekly halflife gatherings!
And don't mind him... he's the same one that believes in Microsoft SO MUCH, that he waits for any article to be published on here just so he can tout how "secure" and "trustworthy" Miscrost OS is whenever people try to tear his house of cards down... He has no social life, and so he is jealous. He would be unlike others, you or I, who would actually want to get together with other *humans* to celebrate computers and gaming and parties and fun. And in person, even, rather than just sitting in a dark room alone in front of a glowing CRT.
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|You might have meant it as a joke, but your analogy is not that far off ! You see, for some of us, 400$ is very well spent if you pass 80 hours a week in front of it!! (not kidding!!) If we go by the amount of hours a week then multiply that for the amount of time I will most likely own one (( before upgrade )~6months ) = 6 months x 4.33 ( weeks per month ) = 25.98 x 80hours/w = 2078.4 hours. 400 / 2078.4 = 0.192455 ~ .20 cents/hour for a kick a** card !!!!
WOW = )
I can't wait to own one ! did ya see those tests !
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|yea one hour playing, 79 hours fixing windows when it crashs.
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|80 hours a week? Do you guys have a job? I hate to be judgmental but maybe you should get some sun. Spending 400 on a card is no big deal but you should think about how your spending your time. Regardless hope you like it, sounds like a screamer.
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|Yeah, enless you guy personally know each other, what does it matter if a person pays 500.00 for some card or widget, if he can affored and doesn't care, why should anyone, it's his/her computer and money, Shoot if I had money to throw around I certainly would. what the hell you only once, will maybe multiple times but atleast in this lifetime, you can't take it with you I know that much
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