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Re: 12-meg Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D2 boards -- are owners satisfied?

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From: M 3 / 911
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 00:00
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I have a Monster II on one of my computers and a Maxi Gamer in the other
one. I do not see any difference.

RE Morris wrote in message <74ghjv$t9c$1@news1.Radix.Net>...
>In article <366ae958.12013132@news.earthlink.net>,
>dreamlogic@nixspamsprintmail.com says...
>>
>...(snip)...
>
>>I'd like to hear
>>from current owners of Maxi Gamer 3D2 Voodoo II boards (especially
>>those with K6-2's) and whether or not they think this is a product of
>>good performance & quality.  Any regrets?
>
>I ordered 2 MaxiGamer 3D2's for SLI direct from Guillemot.  Delivery was as
>promised, even over the Thanksgiving holiday.  However, the card in the
first
>box I opened simply wouldn't work at all.  I also noticed that the two
cards
>were not *exactly* identical, with one being a different color, i.e., brown
>instead of green, although both appeared to be electrically identical
>(different vendors?).  After three calls to Guillemot tech service (who
were
>always available by phone), it was determined that the card was defective
and I
>was issued an RMA for a replacement.
>
>While I'm awaiting the replacement, I'm using the other card and it is
working
>just fine; big improvement over my old Righteous 3D.  The Thief demo at
1024 x
>768 is impressive and, while just a bit slower without the z-buffer, it's
still
>playable, even on my ancient P200MMX.  I found some texturing problems with
>Unreal using the drivers that shipped with the card, but this was solved by
>using the current 3DFx reference drivers.
>
>
>RE Morris
>rem@radix.net
>
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From: "M 3 / 911" <denis54@videotron.ca>
Subject: Re: 12-meg Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D2 boards -- are owners satisfied?
Date: 1998/12/07
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