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Article #736Re: Boycott Canopus Spectra 2500: Bad 2D Text
From: Larry Leung
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 00:00
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I've just exchanged mine and now nice and sharp 2D quality without ghosting. The original board was bad as you described, just email or call Canopus, they'll send you a new one and I think it's bug fixed. Inquisitor wrote: > > I've tried Diamond TNT and found that it's display quality is > good, albeit not as good as G200 but the difference is > negligible. So I surmised that all TNT boards have good > display quality. > > I decided to go for the Canopus one as it has the > reverse pass thru for V2 which I feel like should give > me even better display quality. But I'm dead wrong. > > The display quality of Canopus TNT is bad, so bad that > my eyes will go tire after few moments of staring > at the screen. The perimeter of the text is jagged, > the black is fading not solid and the background white > is grey. I thought I have a bad card and exchage a new > one but the same problem persisted. > > Then I check dejanews and found a plethorn of people > complaining about the same thing. How I wish I have > checked dejanews before I bought the card. > > I think the problem is Canopus is not using a reference > board design but it's own proprietary design and they > screwed up badly in the display department. > > I bought it because I want to be freed of the V2 pass thru > interference but I'm getting exactly the opposite result. > Regret is not a good enought word to describ my feeling at this > moment.
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