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This month's chart gets a face-lift: We enlarge our AGP list to seven boards and pare the PCI chart to three, reflecting AGP's growing popularity. Creative Labs' speedy Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT looks like a million bucks as the AGP Best Buy, while ATI's Rage Fury and another Creative model--the 3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra--join the club. On the PCI side, 3dfx's fast, affordable new Voodoo3 2000 tucks away the number one slot.
Beyond the Top 10: AGP Boards
3Dlabs Permedia3 Create
PRO: Fast 3D rendering; comes with useful utilities.
CON: Pricey; lackluster gaming performance.
FEATURES: $229; 32MB of SDRAM, 300-MHz RAMDAC, 3Dlabs Permedia3 chip, bundled color-calibration utility (Sonnetech Colorific) and DVD player (CyberLink DVD).
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The 3Dlabs Permedia3 Create provides an ideal choice for serious graphics artists, especially those who use applications such as AutoCAD and NewTek's LightWave. This card performed well in our Caligari TrueSpace test, rendering a 3D scene at about 35 frames per second--the...