Canopus SPECTRA 2500 Riva TNT

Quake 2 - Open GL Performance
-	Timedemo - 640 x 480
-	demo1.dm2	crusher.dm2
Canopus Spectra 2500 (Riva TNT)	33.8	16.3
-	Timedemo - 800 x 600
-	demo1.dm2	crusher.dm2
Canopus Spectra 2500 (Riva TNT)	32.3	14.6
-	Timedemo - 1024 x 768
-	demo1.dm2	crusher.dm2
Canopus Spectra 2500 (Riva TNT)	30.3	14.6

Is the Canopus Spectra 2500 the ideal solution for Super7 systems?  Absolutely not, if you're a K6-2 owner you had better stop reading now and purchase a Voodoo2.  The Voodoo2 seems to be the only reasonable solution for K6-2 owners, as for the rest of the Socket-7/Super7 world, you can either upgrade to a Celeron A, or pick up a cheap Voodoo1.  The drivers shipped to AnandTech with the Spectra 2500 weren't final candidate drivers and did produce some problems with the VIA MVP3 chipset, and the card wouldn't function at all on Aladdin V based motherboards.  Future releases of the drivers should correct this, but for now you shouldn't be considering the TNT as the ideal Super7 solution.

There is little the latest graphics accelerators will be able to offer you if you don't have at least a K6-2 300, it is the unfortunate truth, it is time to upgrade for many gamers who were once on top of the market with their Pentium MMX & Monster 3D systems.  The wave of the future seems to be the Celeron A and the Riva TNT, so what better way to enter the future than with Canopus' tweaked-out Spectra 2500 card?