Subject: Re: matrox or diamond?
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Jasper Y. Wong <wongj@rpi.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/28/1997 09:06:00
> 
> I'm looking for a better graphics card (I have a Diamond Stealth 64 EDO)
> and Diamond Stealth 3400 4MB VRAM looks nice.  Is this a fast card or
> should I look the Matrox cards instead?  I want to run X with 65536 or
> more colors (XFree32) on a "166 MHz" Cyrix 6x86.  I'm quite satisfied
> with my current gfx card, but I can't use 1280x1024 because of running
> out of display RAM.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   -jm
> 
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I've both Diamond Stealth 3240XL (2mb version of 3400) and a Matrox
Millenium (4mb).  I've to say the Matrox is much better than the
diamond.  The matrox may not be the fastest card but its driver
support is much stabler.

Jasper

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