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Re: Banshee cards.

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From: Dustin
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:00
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A friend of mine recently bought the Banshee...it works great in my opinion
(and I have a monster 3d 2).  It's not quite as fast as my V2 but it looks
just as good, maybe better.  We've got Unreal and Half-Life and Quake2
working great with it.  Quake 2 is the only one that liked 800x600.  The
others had to be notched down.  He has 200MMX + 32MB  I'd say for $100 it
was a great addition to his system.  As far as their 2D capabilities...he's
running at 1024x768 with no problems.  All the colors are nice and crisp....
Seems like a great card for the money to me..

-Dustin

Ambrose Scafidi wrote in message <366286E9.1C08350D@iinet.net.au>...
>Hiya all..
>    Been scouring the newsgroups and web over the past few days looking for
>info about voodoo2 banshee cards.... I am about to purchase the 16meg
creative
>banshee card for my P200mmx system. Its purpose is partly to make quake2
>prettier but mostly to replace my ageing diamond stealth 2000 series gfx
card
>(its about 3 years old....).
>
>What i would like to read is some kind of feedback regarding peoples
>experience with banshee cards.... not to mention their performance on a
system
>such as mine. And what they are "really" like compared to a true Voodoo2
card.
>i have seen people say they are not as good on the grounds of interrupts
and
>frame rates... a lot of talk about their 3d capabilities.... but what about
>their 2d capabilities? compatibility?....
>
>your in zeros and ones,
>    Ambrose Scafidi
>
>
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From: "Dustin" <progress@cyberramp.net>
Subject: Re: Banshee cards.
Date: 1998/11/30
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