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to...@netgate.net (Todd Munk) wrote:


>The $349 is probably the MSRP and will be lower on the street. I think
>the major lure of this card is that it will work in conjunction with
>your current video card (I spent $220 on a Diamond Stealth) and does
>NOT come with sound built in (I have a Sound Blaster AWE32). So, I'm
>not going to trash these two cards to buy one with 2D video
>acceleration and digital sound built-in. I think ALOT of people are in
>the same situation as me. Also, the Creative card accelerates polygons
>and the Diamond card does something different so there might be a
>speed difference in 3D acceleration. Don't know for sure. One thing I
>do know is that by the time I'm ready to buy one, there will be lots
>to choose from.

You don't have to toss your sound card to work with the Diamond, just
keep using it and don't use the EDGE's sound system.  Frankly, I don't
see it as a "major lure" that one card requires another SVGA card, as
no sound and no video enhancement, and costs $50-$100 more.  The
creative card is a rip-off by comparison.

Frankly, a lot of gamers still don't have wavetable, or a card that
can accelerate video.  The Diamond can even use video as texture maps.
The Diamond also has SEGA's support for Saturn cross-overs, and a
digital joystick port to use Sega Saturn joysticks, etc.  Its feature
list absoluely grinds the Creative board into the ground, for less.
But we'll have to see the games first to truly compare, but I just
find it amusing that a board with 1/4 of the features for a higher
price is a "major lure".  Major ripoff is more like it.

And since the Creative 3D blaster needs a SVGA card, how many 486
VL-BUS owners can use it?  Due to VL-BUS's strains on the CPU, many
486 motherboards don't have 3 VL bus slots- once you get past two, you
start bogging the CPU down.  I already have a VL-BUS ide controller
and VL-BUS SVGA card- no empty slots for me.  Only Creative.