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- From: cro@socrates.ed.asu.edu (C. R. Oldham)
- Subject: Tseng 4000 speed comparison on generic and Diamond boards.
- Message-ID: <cro.721324313@ennews!socrates.ed.asu.edu>
- Keywords: tseng 4000 performance
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- Organization: North Central Association, Commission on Schools
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:51:53 GMT
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- Greetings,
-
- Having read all of the complaints about bad 32bit GRE performance and
- problems with Tseng 4000 drivers, I was not looking forward to
- installing the service pack. I was pleasantly surprised, however,
- when I put it on my home machine (486-33/AMI bios/16Mb ram/128k cache/120 Mb
- HD/Generic Tseng 4000 board "Ultra VGA" with sierra ramdac). I've got *better*
- performance now than I did using the old Orchid drivers. Even in 256
- colors at 800x600 resolution!
-
- I was severely disappointed when I installed the SP on my work machine
- which is almost identical to my home one except I've got only 64k of
- cache, 200Mb HD, and a Diamond Speedstar Plus. Sadly, display
- performance is as everyone says--BAD. I had to go back to 640x480x16
- to stand it. And I'm not just talking about text scrolling speeds.
- For example, Deskpic's flashlight screen saver/animation on my home
- machine bounces around the display like a basketball during an NBA
- game. At work, the same animation acts more like a hot air balloon
- than a basketball.
-
- Can someone explain to me why this is? Are Diamond's cards so flaky
- that some generic board manufacturer can blow them away? Or does my
- extra 64k of cache in the home machine really make that much
- difference?
-
-
- Charles R. (C. R.) Oldham | North Central Association, Commission on Schools
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