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Close, it's actually The Hercules Dynamite 128 with a Orchid3d
The Hercules is much faster, and has higher refresh rates then the
Millenium.

meis...@ix.netcom.com (Meister) wrote:

>Matrox Millenium and Orchid Righteous 3d are the best combination.  I
>have this combo and it works awesome!

>Meister




>On Fri, 07 Mar 1997 19:55:32 -0800, Toon Sykora
><Sykora%...@vinip.cc.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:

>>> >> > >Then why is the Mystique beating the other two in the PC Mag reviews ?
>>> >> > >
>>> >> > I think the best combo for a gamer would be the following:
>>> >> >
>>> >> > 1 Matrox Millennium
>>> >> > 1 3dfx card (such as the Diamond Monster or the Matrox Millennium)
>>> >I gess you should keep in mind that all 3d cards are optimized for DirectX 2.0 (within two years Dos will no longer be 
>>supported, so buy with windows in mind...), with 3.0 'just' being released it's wise to hold down your horses for a while.
>>Also keep in mind that a graphics card doesn't accelerate anything noticeable for games at the moment: do not expect a game 
>>like Quake to run faster on a Mystique... Even more, there is no use of buying VRAM based cards for this matter. 
>>
>>Then again patches are released to run for example Quake in 640x480 32K colors on a Blaster card, the Mystique has 
>>Mechwarior... OK, you do have extra's on the 3dcards like fogging,alpha-blending,... which are hardware accelerated, but few 
>>gamespatches or games with native Direct support already exist.
>>
>>So I think:
>>if you want more videomem which your old board doesn't support, or you have a cheap card like a Trident, you could chose to 
>>upgrade, but then wait until the summer.