🚀 go-pugleaf

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.

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...