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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Trident 8800/8900/9000 (What is what?)
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- References: <1992Nov10.002217.128538@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:05:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.002217.128538@zeus.calpoly.edu> rrauenza@zeus.calpoly.edu (Who, Me??) writes:
-
- >I have a 512k Trident (Quadtel) 9000 svga card that supports up to
- >600x800x256 (and 1024x768x16). I would like to upgrade to a 1 meg
- >card. The one I have has a 512k limit...
-
- >I have done a little shopping and it appears that the 8900 is the
- >newest model that supports 1 meg (1024x768x256). The one place
- >I have actually called was actually selling the *8800* and said they
- >wouldn't have 8900's until next week (which I thought was odd...
- >hasn't the 8900 been out for a while?).
-
- >Anyway, does anyone know of a 1meg Trident 9000 card? Perhaps
- >the 9000 is a special 512k model? I have looked at the chip
- >on the card and it does have the 9000 written upon it.
-
- >Or....
-
- >Should I just skip trident and go with ATI or some other well
- >supported card? I have noticed that Trident's windows 3.1
- >driver is a little buggy (and it's supposed to be the 'final'
- >release - I got it from wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/windows3).
-
- Trident = Garbage. Unfortunately a lot of clone manufacturers
- use them because they are cheap, and unfortunately if you want
- to run OS/2 you'll need one unless you want to buy an ATI Ultra
- and run it with 8514/a drivers.
-
- If you run Windows check out Tseng-based cards. Diamond's are
- pretty good and cheap...and there are lots of good generic ones
- out there too. They are about 4x the speed of a Trident and don't
- cost much more.
-
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