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- From: johng@informix.com (John Galloway)
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- Subject: Re: ATI Mach32 and Xfree86 or XS3?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.052056.23103@informix.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:20:56 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.162704.13442@usasoc.soc.mil> <1993Jan26.220906.26671@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.220906.26671@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
- >>
- >The ATI Mach32 is based upon ATI's mach32 chipset.
- >for speed I suggest acquiring a 928 based card which is faster than the
- >ATI MACH32 by as much as 34% overall graphics performace, even on the ISA :-)
-
- Any info on cards that are using the 928 that are available?
- >
- >Going to a local bus card will not buy you significant performance improvement,
- >at least with the S3 chipsets.
-
- Why? It was my understanding that the local bus was specifically intended
- for things like video cards that are twiddling bytes back and forth with the
- cpu, as opposed to massive memory transfers.
- -jrg
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