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- Wizard 9000VL
- Graphics Board
-
- by Tony Curro
-
-
- Recently, I acquired a VESA Local Bus motherboard. Over the next
- several months I will be doing reviews on several VL-Bus video
- cards.
-
- The first card I had the opportunity to look at is the, Wizard
- 9000VL from SixGraph Computing. The card does live up to the press
- it has received, not to mention various magazine awards.
-
- Wizard 9000VL is a 32-bit card that is made for the Local Bus slot.
- It comes with drivers for: Windows 3.1, AutoDesk, Lotus 1-2-3, MS
- Word, WordPerfect and GEM/Ventura Publisher. Since I only wanted to
- install the Windows drivers, I chose Quick Installation and was done
- in no time.
-
- Based on the Weitek Power 9000 accelerator, and coupled with the
- Weitek W5186, Wizard can run software in all video modes. It runs
- everything with great speed.
-
- Features include:
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- * Register & BIOS level compatible with IBM VGA adapter.
-
-
- * Extended graphics resolution modes from 640x480 up to 1280x1024.
-
- * 2 MB of VRAM 70ns on board.
-
- * Hi- and True-color RAMDAC 135Mhz.
-
- * BIOS fully supports VESA standard.
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- * Ergonomic non-interlaced vertical refresh rates up to 74Hz.
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- * Extended text mode up to 132x60.
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- Resolutions Colors
- 640x480 up to 16.7 Million
- 800x600 up to 16.7 Million
- 1024x768 up to 65,536
- 1280x1024 up to 256
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- All possible in non-interlaced mode.
-
- Using ZD Labs WinBench v3.11 I achieved Graphic WinMarks of over 35
- million. I am testing other cards, but this is one of the fastest.
- The card is designed and manufactured in Canada, and comes with a
- 5-year warranty.
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- Product Information
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- Wizard 9000VL
- Graphics Board
-
- List Price -- $565 (US)
-
- SixGraph Computing, Ltd.
- 2035 Cote-de-Liesse, #200
- Montreal Quebec Canada H4N 2M5
- 514-332-1331
- 514-956-1032 (FAX)
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