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Canopus Pure3d - VERY disappointed

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From: Shane Lai
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 00:00
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	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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From: sioe@NOSPAM.interlog.com (Shane Lai)
Subject: Canopus Pure3d - VERY disappointed
Date: 1997/12/20
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