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- From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: ati ultra vs s3
- Message-ID: <5870132@pollux.svale.hp.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 23:52:25 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.1488.25667@dosgate>
- Organization: HP LOVECRAFT DIVISION
- Lines: 28
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- >(Victor Kan)
- >Paul> I used to have a S3 card. My problem is I didn't notice the
- >Paul> speed in "accelerated" mode, but I did notice the slow VGA mode.
- >Paul> I think it's a marketing scam. I'm quite happy with my ET4000
- >Paul> card (SpeedSTAR 24).
- >
- >Before I bought my 486 with Stealth VRAM in June, I had played with
- >machines in local stores and they had either Trident 8900 cards or
- >ET4000 cards (the latter being the CompuAdd HiREZ card in their "Hot
- >Slot" 12.5MHz ISA slot).
- >
- >They were awful! I played with the Windows Write program from 3.1 and
- >typed a few lines of text. The Trident and ET4000 cards seemed to
- >flicker and flash the current line every time I hit a character. I
- >entered text in multiple fonts, multiple sizes and multiple styles.
- >It took forever to scroll around or even redraw windows when
- >uncovered.
-
- I have tested a variety of VGA and UVGA cards. The speed difference
- note here can be explained by different drivers. A badly written
- driver can make windows run very slow while a very well written
- driver can make the difference between a VGA and an accelerated VGA
- look very small.
-
- Danny Low
- "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
- Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
- HP CPCD dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com
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