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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Re: Is Tseng Lab ET4000 an Windows accelerator chip ?
- Message-ID: <rdippold.714278809@cancun>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 02:46:49 GMT
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- csyew@ecst.csuchico.edu (YewSim Cheah) writes:
- >I have bought a FastData PowerWin VGA card from FastMicro Direct
- >Express. The card features an ET4000 chip and a RAMDAC HIColor
- >chip. FastMicro (Phoenix, AZ) claims ET4000 is an accelerator
- >chip and will run Windows 6 times faster.
-
- If that's what they told you, they lied. The ET4000 is probably the
- most common standard SuperVGA chip around today, but it is in no way
- an accelerator card. The card itself may be faster than a generic VGA
- card because of its design, but that's it. Unless there's some other
- chips on there doing some more acceleration, it's not an accelerator
- board.
-
- You can always try to dig up some ET4000 drivers and see if they're
- any faster.
- --
- Every day of my life forces me to add to the number of people who can kiss
- my butt.
-