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- From: wity@iastate.edu (Wity Ganda)
- Subject: Re: Diamond SpeedStar Stealth 24
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.090612.12531@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Aug16.194058.19516@news.iastate.edu> <1992Aug17.003115.13842@infonode.ingr.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 09:06:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.003115.13842@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
- >wity@iastate.edu (Wity Ganda) writes:
- >
- >>I've been reading lots of posting about the SpeedStar 24.
- >>I think it would be better to wait for the Stealth 24, which is supposed to
- >>be out this fall. The list price is $445.
- >
- >>-Wity-
- >
- >I think the board we've been talking about is the Diamond Speedtar 24X,
- >which is out now and costs $180. Diamond is claiming higher WinMarks
- >for it than for the Stealth. Also, it has an 800x600x32K mode which
- >the Stealth 24 will lack, and fast DOS vga performance, which the
- >S3 boards lack. The 24X uses the Western Digital 9031 GUI accelerator
- >chip unlike the plain 24 which uses the Tseng ET4000.
- >
- >------------
- >Bailey Brown "Above all else, confusion reigns."
- >Intergraph Corporation
- >bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com Procol Harum
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- According to "High Color" magazine (July/August 92), the Stealth 24 is based on
- S3's fast 86C911 chip. That's the reason why I thought Stealth 24 is different
- from the SpeedStar 24X. Is the 86C911 chip the same as 9031?
-
- -Wity-
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