1. Athlon doesn't lead in viewports, but it is hardly behind much.
2. Which doesn't amount to much, benchmarks prove what the card is worth with what ever it features, the gpu from nvidia beats it. simple
3. maybe if you actually read any of the benchmarks gave you you'd see that it was the Oxygen VX1PRO and Oxygen GVX420 which are the best oxygen cards 3dlabs produces. Even 3dlabs doesn't show benchmarks against nvidia cards
http://www.3dlabs.com/product/card/wildcat_II_5110/wildcat_II_5110_intro.htm#benchmark
And if you actually read the benchmarks that I showed you, you would have already known that nvidia doesn't just beat it in texturing but also in lighting and matches it in wireframe for hundreds less $$$.
4. True, when your talking a full scene animations will have way more but you'd hardly ever deal with the whole thing and when you do, even a firegl card will crawl just as much as a geforce 2.
5. True, but you can say that about any dual cpu setup.
6. "stability" The likes of tyan wouldn't produce their board if it wasn't, they are the top server board maker and wouldn't jeopardize that if they didn't have confidence in the dual athlon mp setup. "industry acceptance" what does that matter? No one likes change in the industry but they won't ignore benchmarks like you do.
7. "Your excuse "I didn't go to an animation school" was not accepted." LOL, by the likes of you? Your opinion here doesn't matter. You have no idea who I am, I only speak by what I'm told my professionals and what the reviews show. More irrelevant personal attacks by you.
8. More ignoring from you.
9. This was really funny, more of your ignorance. If you have just asked, I came here to toms forum to ask about video cards and 3dsmax, along with other forums around. I got most of my information about hardware from actual 3d sites. Why are you even here? I only know what I have to know about hardware and have been researching to find the best possible setup I can for animation on my budget for months. My reason for being here so much and not animating is simple, I sold my other stuff to buy new hardware and I am waiting for it now, slight delay in getting it which was due to me being careless.
10. More irrelevant garbage from you, thank you for proving my points with your reply.