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Thomas Hong <th...@columbia.edu> wrote:

>> 3) I will of course need the fastest PCI video card possible, for
>> games that is. You see, although i do some graphical designing, it's
>> not impotant if the board is fast in Windows 3.1 or 95'. 
>> I heard alot of good things about a board called the #9GXE64 and how
>> it speeds up dos based games. 
>> Is this a good choice, or are there faster boards available?. 
>> Also, it seems 2mb-4mb of dram on the video card is pretty solid,
>> however is the 2mb to 4mb difference that big a deal?

>	The #9 64-bit cards are all built around the S3 Corporation's
>64-bit chipsets such as the 864/868, Trio, and 964/968.  They are indeed
>decent for DOS, though if you can find a cheaper card built around the
>same S3 chipsets by other manufacturers such as STB or Hercules or
>Diamond, go for those.  If Windows performance is important to you, get at
>least 2MB of video memory so you can at least do 800x600 at 16.7 million
>colors. 

Naah, you just need a cheapo 1 meg Dram card for now as you'll be
wanting to get a 3D accelerator later on in the year ('Normal' cards
are probably going to be phased out). I've just got a BTC1628 which
has the ARK2000PV chipset - the fastest for DOS games, and dead cheap
too.
 
 


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