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Article #724Re: 12-meg Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D2 boards -- are owners satisfied?
From: Yves M.
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 00:00
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I have their Banshee Card (Phoenix) - It's a fine piece of hardware. I also owned a Voodoo1 card from Guillemot and had no regrets. Got the Banshee Card at Best Buy (Open Box) for $89-$20 Mail-in Rebate! Can't beat that!!!! It's also great if you're limited in the number of available slots. Mine is a AGP version! No problems in Win98. Yves Thorns wrote in message <366ae958.12013132@news.earthlink.net>... >These are now being offered on the internet for $89 (after rebate). >Right now I own an S220 Stealth 2 and it just doesn't seem to run >modern first person shooters -- the game genre I prefer -- as >adequately as it did when Quake 2 first came out. 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? Praise? You sure can't >beat the price -- in most cases $50 less than the nearest competitor. >I'll be using this with a K6-2 266 MHz processor (overclocked to 300 >MHz) on a Shuttle HOT-569 MB w/ 64 megs ram. Or should I go for the >Banshee? Any feedback or advice is welcome > >Best, >Thorns > >remove nixspam to reply via email >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,c91a4180b31734ed X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,c91a4180b31734ed X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public From: "Yves M." <swiss@geocities.NOSPAM.com> Subject: Re: 12-meg Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D2 boards -- are owners satisfied? Date: 1998/12/04 Message-ID: <7480jh$adj$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net> X-Deja-AN: 418556119 References: <366ae958.12013132@news.earthlink.net> X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 X-ELN-Date: 4 Dec 1998 06:48:17 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Fri Dec 4 01:05:25 1998 Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,3dfx.products.voodoo2