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- From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
- Subject: Re: Diamond SpeedStar Stealth 24
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.151615.20825@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 15:16:15 GMT
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- In a previous article, wity@iastate.edu (Wity Ganda) says:
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- >>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
- >
- >
- >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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- No.
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- The 86C911 is made by S3. The 9031 is made by western digital, the people
- who made the at one time popular paradise vga card. The 9031 is holds its
- own with the 86C911 but is much less expensive. At least that is what I've
- gathered from reading this group.
-