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Summary: Crashes left and right-Stay Away!
Review: Card proved itself to be extrememly unstable. Crashes in 3D mode on EVERY 3D game I tried, plus it froze numerous times just moving icons on the desktop. Microsoft itself says the Stealth cards are incompatible with many of their programs (including I.E. 5.0) I bought this card over the Voodoo 3 because of the additional memory, but the Stealth was very disappointing. The Voodoo 3 works a hundred times better.
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Summary: A great card for the cost
Review: I bought my S540 AGP last year for $130, and I have been very satisfied with its performance. I have it running on a Pentium III 500Mhz, 192MB RAM, 2x AGP slot with a 17" monitor. I have not had any problems with it on the windows desktop, and it performs very well for my graphic design applications. For the best performance in my 3D games I usually run them at 800x600 though 1024x768 is not bad at all. In games such as Thief and Need for Speed High Stakes, the performance is almost flawless. The games only skip frames during heavy hard drive access, which is probably caused by my computer (it needs a little fine tuning) Overall, I am very impressed with the card - especially since I am using it with a 2x AGP slot and it can handle 4x. I have not personally owned any comparable cards such as the Voodoo 3000 AGP, so I cannot compare their performance on my system, but I would definitely recommend the S540 AGP for 3D gaming or graphic design purposes.
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Summary: A great card for the cost
Review: I bought my S540 AGP last year for $130, and I have been very satisfied with its performance. I have it running on a Pentium III 500Mhz, 192MB RAM, 2x AGP slot with a 17" monitor. I have not had any problems with it on the windows desktop, and it performs very well for my graphic design applications. For the best performance in my 3D games I usually run them at 800x600 though 1024x768 is not bad at all. In games such as Thief and Need for Speed High Stakes, the performance is almost flawless. The games only skip frames during heavy hard drive access, which is probably caused by my computer (it needs a little fine tuning) Overall, I am very impressed with the card - especially since I am using it with a 2x AGP slot and it can handle 4x. I have not personally owned any comparable cards such as the Voodoo 3000 AGP, so I cannot compare their performance on my system, but I would definitely recommend the S540 AGP for 3D gaming or graphic design purposes.
Rating:
Summary: A great card for the cost
Review: I bought my S540 AGP last year for $130, and I have been very satisfied with its performance. I have it running on a Pentium III 500Mhz, 192MB RAM, 2x AGP slot with a 17" monitor. I have not had any problems with it on the windows desktop, and it performs very well for my graphic design applications. For the best performance in my 3D games I usually run them at 800x600 though 1024x768 is not bad at all. In games such as Thief and Need for Speed High Stakes, the performance is almost flawless. The games only skip frames during heavy hard drive access, which is probably caused by my computer (it needs a little fine tuning) Overall, I am very impressed with the card - especially since I am using it with a 2x AGP slot and it can handle 4x. I have not personally owned any comparable cards such as the Voodoo 3000 AGP, so I cannot compare their performance on my system, but I would definitely recommend the S540 AGP for 3D gaming or graphic design purposes.
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Summary: VERY BAD CARD!
Review: I bought this card hoping it would be better than my Voodoo2. It was for a while but then it started to crash and my computer froze almost every time I turned it on. I fixed some of them but gave up and returned it. My new card works much better.
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Summary: Diamond Stealth 3 540 Extreme
Review: I bought this card, and it runs fine on my P3-450. I expected more performance out it, but it does happen to out do Voodoo3 2000 in Quake 3. It could be better for the money. I don't see what problems other people have had with it, I haven't had a single problem with this video card. It has run completely fine. I would suggest a GeForce 256 over this card though.
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Summary: Too pricey for its performance
Review: I bought this video card for my Linux m/c (yes, linux drivers are available for this card). It could not support more than 65,000 colors and I had to settle for that. At times when the screen refreshes, there is a large band of bad display at top of screen before the proper screen appears. For a video card that boasts 32Mb memory I expected better performance. For the same money you can get far better cards from Voodoo, ATI
Rating:
Summary: Some bugs but a nice card
Review: Not a bad card at all. I have a celeron 266, and I am running all kinds of high demand games without too many problems. OpenGL freezes if you are overclocking or if you have the AGP aperature size too high. In Windows 2000, OpenGL is slow and choppy. Using Direct3D, games run smoothly. If you have Windows 98, OpenGL gives great textures and colors to everything. I have never had a lockup outside of a game. If they solved the OpenGL issues, this card would be a great buy.
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Summary: Too many problems and crashes
Review: There were too many crashes and system freezes when I installed this card (ATI & Voodoo have worked great on my system). Since I know my way around in computers, I was able to resolve some conflics, but problems keep cropping up and I decided to return the card.Also, 3D quality is good, but 2D quality is not up to the mark as compared to the voodoo.
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Summary: Stealth III S540
Review: This card is great! It truly outshines the VooDoo III, even the AGP version. It has some pretty powerful features such as texture compression, z-buffer, 32bit 3D rendering, the list goes on. I used to have an /\/vidia RIVA 128ZX AGP, but that thing had its hey-day and is now just another piece of silicon. The Stealth III is the best you can get without spending a small fortune.
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