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- From: aron@samarra.ced.berkeley.edu (aron bonar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Graphics Accelerator Cards
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 02:24:54 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1992Nov17.213906.504@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>, young@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (young.u.huh) writes:
- |> 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?
- |>
- |> yhuh@ihlpe.att.com
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- Right...probably the most improvement for your money would be in getting an accelerated graphics
- card...The ones that offer the most improvent for windows would be a card with the S3 chip.
- The Diamond Stealth Vram or Orchid Farenhiet 1280 are 2 such cards. But from what I hear, the stealth
- isn't such a good card outside of windows...but I guess it depends on the application. The Orchid is a
- pretty reliable card....the newest versions of it will do 640x480x16.7million colors. And it does 256
- colors at 800x600 and 1024x768.
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- I'm sure there are other cards you might want to look for as well.
- But take all this with a grain of salt because windows just isn't gonna run insanely fast with a 386sx.
- I know...cuz I used to have one. But having 8 megs of RAM definitely helps.
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- Aron
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