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- From: tomk@fc.hp.com (Tom Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: CV64 problems
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 00:51:13 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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- Darren Eveland (darren@mgl.ca) wrote:
- : Philip Chung (ee95pyc@brunel.ac.uk) wrote:
- : : Benjamin Kenobi wrote:
-
- : : > Oh, and if I'm not mistaken, its DRAM on the Cybervision. (Does this make
- : : > it perform slower than if it had VRAM?)
-
- : : I was told the CV64 had VRAM. I think for a board to be faster, it has to be
- : : designed to use VRAM. Not sure about this though, but genarally VRAM is faster.
-
- Actually, VRAM is just DRAM that has a second (serial) access port.
- So, it's not really faster then DRAM... it just allows two devices to
- read/write to the memory at the same time (which means the total
- bandwidth is increased).
-
- : CyberVision 64 has DRAM. 70ns speed i believe. I WISH it was VRAM, but
- : it isn't.
-
- The CV manual says it uses "Video DRAMs". VRAMs *are* Video DRAMs...
-
-
- While we're on the subject of CV64 problems... does anyone else have that
- terrible ghosting when using a 1950 with a CV64? If this is normal,
- then this is one shitty graphics card I just bought. I'm going to try
- hooking it up to a 20" monitor soon... it better be better or Phase 5
- will be hearing from me!
-
-
- Tom Kennedy
-