Access to information (e.g. the Internet) has been a game changer for buying "3D acceleration" as it was called back then. I remember fondly in the late 90s ju

Access to information (e.g. the Internet) has been a game changer for buying "3D acceleration" as it was called back then. I remember fondly in the late 90s just walking into a Best Buy (maybe Circuit City) and buying a GPU off the shelf. I had no benchmark data like today. I bought based on whether or not I liked the packaging and how much video RAM did it have. Because I really didn't have much more data to go off of. I subsequently bout the Diamond Viper 770, linked below. https://www.anandtech.com/show/307 https://www.anandtech.com/show/307 Times have really changed.