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- From: young@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (young.u.huh)
- Subject: Graphics Accelerator Cards
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:39:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.213906.504@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
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- I am looking for an inexpensive way to improve the speed of Windows
- applications running on my PC. An example of the type of improvement
- in speed I'm looking for: I compared the speeds of Quicken for DOS
- and Quicken for Windows. In DOS, I can scroll through the transactions
- very fast by holding down the up-arrow or down-arrow, and as soon as I
- release the key, the scrolling stops. In Windows, however, the
- response is much slower. When I hold down the key, it scrolls very
- slowly, and after I release the key, it keeps on scrolling for a while.
-
- The PC has an Intel 386SX/16MHz processor, 8 MB of RAM, and a Trident
- SVGA card with 1MB RAM running at 640x480 with 256 colors. In the
- above example, is the speed bottleneck in the graphics card or in the
- processor?
-
- Would I get a significant improvement in the speed by replacing the
- graphics card with a graphics "accelerator" card? If so, then which
- graphics accelerator cards would be good choices for my PC?
-
- Any information or suggestions would be appreciated.
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Regards,
- Young Huh
- yhuh@ihlpe.att.com
-