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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
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- Subject: Re: any experience with Aamazing Tech. video cards?
- Message-ID: <sheldon.721969026@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 02:57:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.162230.6963@advtech.uswest.com>
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- In <1992Nov16.162230.6963@advtech.uswest.com> Greg Wilson <gregw@advtech.uswest.com> writes:
-
- >PC World has rated Aamazing Technologies VGA700 accelerated video
- >card as a "Best Buy." At a street price of $70, it is by far the
- >cheapest accelerated card around. While its Windows performance
- >can't compare with the ATI Graphics Ultra, it certainly out-performs
- >my Trident 8900c. When I called Aamazing, I was told that OS/2
- >drivers would be available after COMDEX, in a couple of weeks.
-
- >Does anyone have an experience with Aamazing cards? BTW, the VGA700
- >comes with 512K, while the VGA1000 (with a street price of $125)
- >comes with 1M.
-
- Yes, I originally had an Aamazing video card. It was one of their
- cheaper ones, around $35 and came with 256K, in May 1992.
-
- Piece of trash. The card immediately started scrambling my displays,
- throwing trash all over the screen. I brought it back to my dealer
- and he said, "Yeah, they do that a lot. We have about 50% of them
- returned to us, so we aren't going to carry Aamazing products anymore."
-
- He traded me even up for a Trident, and I haven't had any problems
- since.
-
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