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Article #58Re: Canopus Pure3d - VERY disappointed
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:00
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In article <349d5452.40169490@typhoon.texas.net>, root@localhost.anti-spam.com
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>On Sat, 20 Dec 1997 23:24:22 GMT, sioe@NOSPAM.interlog.com (Shane Lai)
>wrote:
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>You're returning the card because you can't overclock it another 6 Mhz
>and get a whole 1.5 fps out of it? Yay.
>
>Overclocking has about the least impact on 3dfx performance of all the
>tweeks. Going from 50 to 57 Mhz, I gain 2fps.
A few FPS might not sound like much, but on my voodoo rush,
default at 50Mhz I get 19.5, and when I overclock to 60, I get 24.5Fps.*
Now that's only, 5Fps, but it a good 24% improvement, IT SHOWS !
*P.S. These are untweeked framerate at 640x480, I can get better once
tweeked.
-Ben
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108575,e0af437cf1067b6b X-Google-Attributes: gid108575,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,e0af437cf1067b6b X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: 1050fa,e0af437cf1067b6b X-Google-Attributes: gid1050fa,public X-Google-Thread: 105d2c,e0af437cf1067b6b X-Google-Attributes: gid105d2c,public From: bjsoftNOSPAMMERS@videotron.ca (Ctrl-Alt-Delete) Subject: Re: Canopus Pure3d - VERY disappointed Date: 1997/12/22 Message-ID: <67ke62$lsl$2@walton.videotron.net> X-Deja-AN: 309202511 References: <349c50fc.4450954@news.interlog.com> <349d5452.40169490@typhoon.texas.net> Organization: Try-It Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,3dfx.games.glquake,3dfx.d3d.drivers,3dfx.oem.products.canopus.pure3d