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- From: lmebold@csghsg5a.bitnet
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Graphics Accelerator Cards
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.124554.248@csghsg5a.bitnet>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 12:45:53 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.213906.504@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
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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?
- >
- > Any information or suggestions would be appreciated.
- > Thanks in advance.
- >
- > Regards,
- > Young Huh
- > yhuh@ihlpe.att.com
-
-
- Hi Young Huh
-
- I've got an ATI graphics ultra installed - this graphics accelerator
- is really fast, especially when scrolling!
- It dropped in the price now, too - because they released two new
- accelerator cards (ultra+ and pro).
-
- Hope it helps
- Luke
-