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- VGASPEED
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- Many vendors claim to have fast VGA cards, but how do you REALLY know
- if they are telling you the TRUTH without buying it, taking it home,
- installing it in your system, and testing it? By running VGASPEED on a
- system installed with the VGA card you are interested in, you can determine
- its frame rate BEFORE buying it; and then compare it with the frame rate
- of other VGA cards. In this way you can make an INTELLIGENT decision on
- which VGA you wish to purchase!
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- When VGASPEED begins it will flash the screen, show multiple, moving
- colors for about half a minute, and then show the results of its tests.
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- NOTE: You must have have a VGA compatible card with at least 128K of memory
- on it, plus about 200K of FREE system RAM in order to run VGASPEED.
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- NOTE: VGASPEED should be run from a DOS Prompt (in contrast to 'launching'
- from Windows) for accurate results. i.e. DON'T RUN VGASPEED FROM
- WINDOWS! =======================
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- SAMPLE RESULTS:
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- CPU TYPE = 80386 Processor
- CPU SPEED = 33 Mhz
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- VGA BUS TYPE = 16-bit
- VGA SPEED = .0794285 seconds/frame
- = 12.58 frames/second
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- CPU TYPE is the micro-processor in your computer.
- Possibilities are 8086, 80286, 80386, 80486+.
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- CPU SPEED is a VERY rough estimate of the EFFECTIVE clock rate for
- your computer system. Higher is faster.
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- VGA BUS TYPE is actually a coding efficiency indicator. For example,
- a result of 16-bit corresponds to maximum VGA speed
- when WORDS are mapped from RAM to VGA RAM, in contrast
- to BYTES (8-bit) or DOUBLE WORDS (32-bit).
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- VGA SPEED is how fast it takes to update the entire screen from RAM
- An average VGA Board runs at about 10 - 12 frames/second.
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- VGASPEED is Shareware. If you find the program useful please send $5.00 to:
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- * Peter Oliphant *
- * 7150 Sunset Blvd. *
- * Hollywood, Ca. 90046 *
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- Origin = Compuserve (Jun 21, 1992)
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