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Yeah, basically I've heard that the Pure3d II is a slightly faster card than the
monster 2 (something like 5% faster). However in my personal experience, I've had
a monster 2 8 meg card, and I now have SLI Pure3d II. I got 71 fps timedemo's on
demo1 in q2 at 800x600 rez with the monster, and I get 60-65 now with the
Pure3d's. However at about the same time I changed cards I also installed a
monster sound card, and threw on a gravis gamepad. So those might be slowing down
the equation some. Windows may be scanning the game port to see what it's doing,
and that could be slowing it down. Or the monster sound could be slowing down the
game some (this is one of the original monster sounds, not the new MX-200 or
whatever).

However I haven't tried switching peripherals around and benchmarking.. At the
moment 5 fps is not a big enough deal for me to rip my computer apart.

Sploid

cYbErFaRt wrote:

> The reviews i have seen say that the Diamond is faster. But either way
> the speed difference is so minute its not worth worrying about.
> Buy the card that has the best price or software package etc.
>
> Terry D wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to know if Canopus's Pure3D II is better than Diamond's Monster
> > II 12mb card.  From the reviews, Canopus's card is slightly faster than
> > Diamond's.  Can anyone tell me who owns this card if they are happy with it?
> >  Any pluses or minuses to consider?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Terry