I have to say the Radeon is Rock Solid in win2k, except for the DVD player, and that the driver rumour mongering is just the nvidiots stiring.

I have to disagree with you on that one,euankirkhope, at least from a personal basis. The Radeon drivers suck, and that is the biggest and probably only problem behind an otherwise great card. Nvidia has much better drivers, even the beta's. My voodoo 4 that I had performed better in some areas than the Radeon. Not saying ATI doesnt work at their drivers, but for me the Radeon didnt cut it, where as the GeForce 2MX did.
IMO the Radeon has some driver issues that need to be fixed soon, or ATI could be eating Nvidia dust.
 
I do think that Nvidia is getting full of themselfs though, seeing as how they bashed the Kyro II chipset for features that the current GeForce lineup, excluding the GF3, doesnt support anyway. I dont want another section of the hardware industry ted by one force, like the sound card biz is with creative.

ATI's current drivers are actually really good. I'm getting scores of 3015 - 3025 on 3Dmark2001 without turning off any features or unloading software (anti-virus, firewall, etc.) And the performance in games like Black & White is excellent.
 
Also, the 7.1 version of the DVD player is out. You can download it from ATI.

Hmm...not bad. What bit depth--16 or 32?
 
Well, to everyone his own...
 
[ 18 April 2001: Message edited by: Brian Frank ]

Nothing but 32-bit. That is one of the Radeon's strengths. It is actually a bit weak on the 16-bit side.

You know the Radeon Would be a nice Win2k card but it performs a lot worse then if used under Win98 or ME.
 
My Geforce2 actually runs faster in 2000.
 
Just my 2 cents

Yeah, the GeForce 2 is a faster card. But its 2D support isn't very good. That is why nearly everyone is leading SnapperOne away from it. He has more need of good 2D support. He has also stated it will be running in W2k.

OLEerror...........whew! I sort of figured my original post would touch some soft spots. From the wide-ranging responses, guess I was right. Don't get me wrong, everything submitted has been both informative and helpful. I just wanted to say thanks for your last post, since you obviously remembered the original question!

Blazingly fast and highest quality, never was a problem in any mode, free of any 3D hassles, you wont get better.
 
 
You will never know what CPU I use