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In article <67i28o$i73$1@ha2.rdc1.ct.home.com>,
Tom G <the_grady@hotmail.com> wrote:
>First of all, the Canopus is not going to be much faster than your
>Monster... It is the same Voodoo1 chipset and only has 2 more megs of
>texture memory.   You should have waited 2 months for the Voodoo2.... Also,
>overclocking to 62 is very dangerous and you should be happy that you didn't
>fry your Monster...   Hey, I have an Orchid and can't overclock at all
>without it locking up the system.
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>Shane Lai wrote in message <349c50fc.4450954@news.interlog.com>...
>> I purchased a Canopus Pure3d yesterday as an upgrade from my
>>Diamond Monster 3d since I play a lot of Quake2 online and I was
>>getting pretty severe slowdowns with the Monster when there were a
>>bunch of people in the same room.
>> Anyway, I installed it using the latest drivers released
>>yesterday, and since I could take it up to 60mhz in the settings
>>panel, I did - started up quake2 and....system locks up, reboot, take
>>it down to 59, and still lockup, I had to take it all the way down to
>>54 so it wouldn't keep crashing. BTW, I have a fan blowing across the
>>chips to keep them cool. I took it back to the store since I thought
>>it may be defective (there was a little sticker on the card saying
>>"fan failure") and just popped in a new one today with the very same
>>results.
>> The bottomline is, my older Monster3d has been running at
>>62mhz for the last 6 months without any problem whatsoever - no
>>texture tearing, no lock-ups, just a really high framerate...and now I
>>find that my "upgrade" to the Canopus Pure3d is really a downgrade.
>>Suffice to say, I'm *very very* dissapointed with the Pure3d.
>> Perhaps, in their effort to keep up with the Christmas rush,
>>they've loosened their quality control measures...
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