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- From: fontenot@ravl.rice.edu (Dwayne Jacques Fontenot)
- Subject: Re: ATI Ultra Pro, G200 DX266V resolution/NI?
- Message-ID: <BxIp42.DpL@rice.edu>
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- Organization: Rice University
- References: <17367@borg.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:33:38 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In article <17367@borg.cs.unc.edu> frederic@cs.unc.edu (Robin Fredericksen) writes:
- >I recently received a Gatway 2000 DX2-66MHz system with their version of
- >the ATI Ultra Pro video cards. It was my understanding that the ATI UP
- >would run 1280x1024 @ 60Hz NI, but after trying to get it to go interlaced
- >(running the setup program, running the test programs) I finally called ATI.
- >They said that the version of the card that I have does not go that hi, and
- >that I would have to upgrade to a new (or additional? that was not clear)
- >RAMDAC to get that performance. I called Gateway tech support and they
- >said that they did not have the upgrade available, and that I would have
- >to pay for it.
- >
- >Has anyone else with the ATI UP, from Gateway or otherwise, run it at
- >1280x1024 at 60Hz NI? Is Gateway selling a stripped down card? Was
- >I expecting too much to be getting the product with specs that have been
- >advertised elsewhere? Has anyone bought the Nanao 550i upgrade and run
- >it at 1280x1024 @ 60Hz? Does any one have any info on this at all? :-)
- >
- >After buying a Mag MX17F so that I can do the above mentioned resolution,
- >I am bit dissapointed right now. (I still have a fiew calls to make to
- >my sales rep, but I am not optimistic.)
-
- AAAAARRRRGGG!!!!! I KNEW IT!!!! When people started saying (a couple of months
- ago) that Gateway was selling an ATI Ultra *PRO* in their machines, I knew
- this could not be right. Gateway is LYING. They are CHEATING. They are being
- very dishonest. How can they can call this an Ultra Pro if it does not meet
- Pro specs? What makes this board a Pro and not, say, an Ultra + ???
-
- To reiterate: an ultra pro (according to ads) can do 1280x1024x256@74Hz NI !
-
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Eric Fredericksen : Insert amazingly funny or enlightening quote
- >frederic@cs.unc.edu : in this space here.
- >I don't need a disclaimer, I'm a graduate student so no one cares what I say..
-
- Dwayne Fontenot
- (fontenot@comet.rice.edu)
-