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- From: g8@cbnews.cb.att.com (k.d.tentarelli)
- Subject: Re: Diamond 24X and Stealth VRAM
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:13:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.121351.17972@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Sep9.062656.28250@usl.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep9.062656.28250@usl.edu> mxt5182@usl.edu (Tangjarukij Montri) writes:
- >Hi, everyone
- >
- > I'd like to buy a SVGA card for my 486-33 machine. Could anyone
- >tell which one I should buy between Diamond 24X and Stealth VRAM?
- >
- It must be that the differences are mostly important when playing games.
- I've used both boards for image and graphics work and find that the CPU
- time to alter images typically exceeds the video update time. In fact,
- when working with large files the real time killer is disk access time
- (multiple copies of large images don't fit in RAM).
-
- So, my conclusion is that any speed difference between Stealth and 24x is
- negligible in image and graphics manipulation applications. All the
- concern here on the net about video speed must stem from applications
- like games and multimedia which use very little CPU power.
-