First post, by renejr902
In my test, i checked my bios screen, keen4, jazz and a dos menu with each video card.
Below you will find the best one in first 1. and worst in last place and a few comments. i dont write the video card brand for now, only the video card model. All video cards below are pci.
1. Geforce FX 5200 (Best sharpness, best text clarity and game details, a lot more than any other video cards. Best contrast, best brightness, best colors. Its a 10 on 10.
2. 3dfx Voodoo3 ( text and game details not sharp like Fx 5200, but very good. Very good contrast, brightness and colors but not good like FX 5200, but the difference is not big, slightly worse.
(I use keenfix in keen4 to get the normal colors in my lcd monitor.) 9 on 10. Lose one point for clarity and sharpness.
3. TnT2 M64 16megs ( text and details similar to voodoo3, slightly worse. Good contrast but worst than voodoo3, brightness is good enough but worse than voodoo3, colors are very good like voodoo3. 7.5 on 10.
4. Trident 1mb. Text and details similar to tnt2. Colors and contrast are very good. Brightness similar to TNT2. But the card as something i cant live with it. A lot of grainy things everywhere, like illuminated pixel that looks like glitch and they shine bright, its hard to explain but i dont like it. Its more present in Keen4. Its not like a glitched video card, the card work correctly.
6 on 10.
5. Voodoo Banshee. Mine is not very good. Text and details similar to tnt2, but colors are bad. Bad tint. and a big yellow tint is always present in all time and white looks yellow. Brightness is not good enough for me. Much worse than tnt2. Contrast is bad too. (I use keenfix in keen4 to get the normal colors in my lcd monitor.) 5 on 10.
6. S3 trio64 2mb. Oh man! This card is garbage.
aaaahhhh! Text and clarity are just ok and looks blurred a little. But Brightness is very low. Colors look so bad, it looks like a 1985 crt color tv. its really bad. Contrast is bad. A big yellow tint is always present, its looks similar to the banshee yellow tint but its even worse. I would not use this card with any pc even on a 386 computer. 2 on 10.
( My S3 virge gx2 in agp looks much better than this)
7. Matrox mystique. Im sorry i put it in last place because the scrolling problem in keen4 is unbearable, its destroyed any fun. Otherwise text, clarity, details, colors, contrast is similar to voodoo3 , its very good. But 1 on 10 because you cant use it for side scrolling dos games. (If you are not gaming on dos or not playing side scrolling games than its a very good card like 8 on 10)
I have to test my Matrox Millenium too.
I will do the same test with my several agp video cards someday. I would like to test a Cirrus Logic but i dont have one.
Thanks for looking, i hope it can help someone to make a good choice. I still use the fx5200 on my pentium 233 mmx for dos gaming because its still much better than voodoo 3 for picture quality. But voodoo 3 is very good. Tnt2 is good. Others video cards are too bad for me.