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- From: christyo@cae.wisc.edu (Buddy Christyono)
- Subject: 14" monitors
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
- Date: 17 Dec 92 15:09:00 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.150900.1322@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- Hi!
-
- I am preparing to buy a computer, specifically the following:
- 486DX50/256K cache/8mb memory/213mb IDE drive (WD Caviar)
- Paradise Accelerator Card and 14" PIONEX monitor.
- The companies are: Computer Sales Professional (New Jersey)
- and Quantex (New Jersey).
- My questions:
- 1. Does anyone have dealt with either companies? What is your opinion
- on either one of them?
- 2. I do not know much about PIONEX monitor but I saw one at SAM'S
- WHOLESALE CLUB and it seemed a bit blurry. What type of 14" monitor
- do you think is a good one? I am particularly interested in Optiquest
- 1000D but I looked in several publications and nobody (except two,
- which I called and said they no longer carry the monitor brand) had
- it. I do not want to spend more than $400 (such as for Sony 1304S).
- My primary choices:
- Optiquest 1000D
- Viewsonic 5E (barely more than $400)
- Viewsonic 6E
- What else is there and where to get it (also price range). Is Optiquest
- still in business? Where to get their monitors? I am not planning to
- use more than 800x600x256 colors consistently.
- 3. How good is the Paradise Accelerator (WD90C31)? The Computer Shopper
- (12/92) has a report on it and 16 others and consider it less than the
- Speedstar 24X. Should I get the 24X instead? I am a bit reluctant to
- buy or recommend Diamond products given the complaints I read in this
- newsgroup on Diamond company. The Paradise is made by Western Digital
- which produces the 90C31 chip, so I am assuming it is a good one. How-
- ever, the card only manage roughly 1/2 the Winmark of the 24X and I
- do not understand this at all. Bad driver?
-
- What graphics card should I buy if the Paradise is a nono (in your opi-
- nion?) I am interested in running OS/2 sometime in the future, so I need
- something that will allow me to run OS/2 (so: no ATI, I guess). ET4000
- card seems to be too slow for it (just a feeling).
-
- Thank you. Please respond to :
- buddy%optics.decnet@vms.macc.wisc.edu
-
- Buddy Christyono
- ECE Dept. univ. of Wisconsin
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