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Article #714Re: 12-meg Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D2 boards -- are owners satisfied?
From: M 3 / 911
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 00:00
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$1@news1.Radix.Net>... >In article <366ae958.12013132@news.earthlink.net>, >dreamlogic@nixspamsprintmail.com says... >> >...(snip)... > >>I'd like to hear >>from current owners of Maxi Gamer 3D2 Voodoo II boards (especially >>those with K6-2's) and whether or not they think this is a product of >>good performance & quality. Any regrets? > >I ordered 2 MaxiGamer 3D2's for SLI direct from Guillemot. Delivery was as >promised, even over the Thanksgiving holiday. However, the card in the first >box I opened simply wouldn't work at all. I also noticed that the two cards >were not *exactly* identical, with one being a different color, i.e., brown >instead of green, although both appeared to be electrically identical >(different vendors?). After three calls to Guillemot tech service (who were >always available by phone), it was determined that the card was defective and I >was issued an RMA for a replacement. > >While I'm awaiting the replacement, I'm using the other card and it is working >just fine; big improvement over my old Righteous 3D. The Thief demo at 1024 x >768 is impressive and, while just a bit slower without the z-buffer, it's still >playable, even on my ancient P200MMX. I found some texturing problems with >Unreal using the drivers that shipped with the card, but this was solved by >using the current 3DFx reference drivers. > > >RE Morris >rem@radix.net >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,c91a4180b31734ed X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,c91a4180b31734ed X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public From: "M 3 / 911" <denis54@videotron.ca> Subject: Re: 12-meg Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D2 boards -- are owners satisfied? Date: 1998/12/07 Message-ID: <T5%a2.1067$qF4.2291@weber.videotron.net> X-Deja-AN: 419852533 References: <366ae958.12013132@news.earthlink.net> <74ghjv$t9c$1@news1.Radix.Net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@videotron.net X-Trace: weber.videotron.net 913079795 207.96.146.182 (Mon, 07 Dec 1998 20:16:35 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 20:16:35 EDT Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,3dfx.products.voodoo2