rec.autos.simulators

> > This thing runs *unbelievably* hot. It's about 28C in my house at the
> moment
> > and this thing couldn't make it through a 3DMark 2001 benchmark run
> without
> > having graphic corruption in the last few tests. I underclocked the RAM
> down
> > to 620MHz and it made it through the tests OK. Not impressed. I still
> > haven't put the case cover back on my PC - my CPU usually runs a few
> degrees
> > warmer with it on. To put it in perspective, the heatsink on my XP 2000+
> > felt cold after touching the (massive) Leadtek heatsink. The CPU is
about
> > 50C btw. FWIW the 3D Mark I got was 10480.  F12001 seems to be the only
> > current game (sim or otherwise) that really benefits from such a
powerful
> > GPU.....sigh.

> You know there is a distinct possibility that you got a bad card.

> > Nope, they're all too hot and just don't work.  It was part of the
design
> of
> > the card.  The goal was to prevent sales and undermine success. I'm
going
> > with an old S3 from now on, those things run real cold.  ;0)

> > --
> > Joe Marques
>   At LAST!   a man who thinks like I do....:)
> hahehahahehehehahaha  :)
> dave henrie

> A Virge!  The original video DE-celerator.  :-)

> --

> Fester

> "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
> citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a
> double-edged sword. It both emboldens the ***, just as it narrows the
> mind.  And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the
> *** boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no
> need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry,
> infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their
> rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I
> have done. And I am Caesar."   -- Julius Caesar

>>Aptly named "virge" because it was on the verge of 3D.  I think the code
>>name was 2D+1/2D.

> Specially optimized for GP3...

> Stephen