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- From: kotsines@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (KOTSINES THOMAS ANT)
- Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth vs. Speedstar 24X
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.063332.11838@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 06:33:32 GMT
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- >|> I am preparing for a 486DX-33 purchase soon and had been planning to
- >|> purchase a Diamond Stealth card. One of the few vendors I'm
- >|> considering said that their standard card is now the Diamond Speedstar
- >|> 24X which, according to the sales person, is better than the Stealth
- >|> and is supposedly phasing out the Stealth. However, I thought I had
- >|> read/heard somewhere that the 24X was in fact a lower-end card with
- >|> less performance than the Stealth. If you can help me set the record
- >|> straight on this, please e-mail me or post a follow-up.
-
- >But the reason its not so good (and being phased out as you say) is because it has no end
- >of problems with applications other than windows.
- >
- >640x480 in 16.7 million colors
- >800x600 in 32k colors and
- >1024x768 in 256 colors.
- >
- >Its not billed as being as fast in windows as the stealth but I'd have a hard time beleiving
- >that its unreasonably slow. Its performance in DOS and in other apps is (from what I've heard)
- >as good or better than the stealth.
- >
- >Not that the 24x is glitch free, but my understanding is that the card out-performs the stealth
- >in almost every area. Plus its cheaper.
- >
-
- I have a Stealth and haven't experienced any problems either in windows or in
- any other application, and I do run many a variety of applications including
- autocad, auto3d. In addition, I can use 1280x1024 resolution for many of
- my apps, which is always nice. Considering that most people will be using
- their card at the highest resolution possible most of the time (or at least
- the second highest), I would say a Stealth would be a much better choice if
- for only the speed. I would die with 640x480 resolution even if it did
- have 16.7 million colors!
-
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