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Personally I wouldnt buy a Dual P3 (or any P3) system right now... nor would I buy an Athlon. Ever. I'd find a stop-gap solution and wait until January for a Northwood P4. But as Horus has already said several times that this thread is about GFX cards not CPUs... 
Stay away from the Kyro 2. It's cheap, but you get what you pay for. It uses several hardware "shortcuts" to achieve the result that it does, and the benchmarks posted are pretty selective - its faster in very select areas only, in all others it gets annihilated. The driver set is also pretty poor, and you get a fair few glitches/compatibility problems.
At the end of the day, it reminds me very much of its predecessor, the PowerVR - cheaper than the main competitor (Voodoo), faster in some very select instances, but dogged by shite drivers, all round slower performance, and crappy output (remember the difference between Voodoo and PowerVR Q2?).
One thing I've learned about computer hardware, you can't cut corners. You want a soundcard, you get a Creative, you want a graphics card (now), you get an Nvidia, you want a chip, you get an Intel... the "benefits" you gain from straying from the defining manufacturers are always far outweighed by the disadvantages.
Stay away from the Kyro 2. It's cheap, but you get what you pay for. It uses several hardware "shortcuts" to achieve the result that it does, and the benchmarks posted are pretty selective - its faster in very select areas only, in all others it gets annihilated. The driver set is also pretty poor, and you get a fair few glitches/compatibility problems.
At the end of the day, it reminds me very much of its predecessor, the PowerVR - cheaper than the main competitor (Voodoo), faster in some very select instances, but dogged by shite drivers, all round slower performance, and crappy output (remember the difference between Voodoo and PowerVR Q2?).
One thing I've learned about computer hardware, you can't cut corners. You want a soundcard, you get a Creative, you want a graphics card (now), you get an Nvidia, you want a chip, you get an Intel... the "benefits" you gain from straying from the defining manufacturers are always far outweighed by the disadvantages.
