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Article #739Boycott Canopus Spectra 2500: Bad 2D Text
From: Inquisitor
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:00
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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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