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In article <449ee2$7...@zorn.abo.fi> mryt...@news.abo.fi (Markus Rytk|l{ INF) writes:

> From: mryt...@news.abo.fi (Markus Rytk|l{ INF)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
> Date: 26 Sep 1995 19:48:50 +0200
> Organization: Abo Akademi University
> 
> ran...@merlion.singnet.com.sg (Michael Tan Yew Keong) writes:
> L>VLB-only is a dumb thing. Anybody with a VLB motherboard is just going
> >to get either a 486-pci motherboard, or change to a Pentium. No way
> >anybody is going to invest even US$150 on a new board for an antique
> >computer. No way! The 3D Blaster is sure to die!
> 
>  Wow Michael :) You rock... you probably know that LOTS of video boards
> are faster on VLB than PCI :) Sure, PCI is better, newer technology but
> lots of people surely rock your PCI video board with a 'old' VLB board,
> unless, you have a video board based on the ARK2000 chipset ? do you ?,
> and then again, in theory the VLB is faster, so show me some 'tech' talk
> and defend yourself :)
> 
> //MaKa


I thought 3DBlaster was $350, not $150. If I had a 486DX2 VL and $350 I'd
surely not spend the $350 on a VL bus board since I'd have to dump it when
I upgraded to a Pentuim (the fast Pentium boards are all PCI - look at the
benchmarks in http://www.dfw.net/~sdw/bench.html). Also, it's getting harder
to find Pentuim MB with VLB, most have a combo VL/PCI which SUCK, I bought
one such board and threw it away - I was getting 48fps with P5 100MHz on
3Dbench with 512K cache and a Stealth 64 Video. I bought a PCI M.B. and my
3Dbench went to 100 fps (256K cache, same processor and graphics board,
Triton chipset).
Another point: you say in theory VLB is faster, but the benchmark results
don't seem to agree.

-Hamid

P.S. Fry's was advertising a P75+MB for $309, I'd get one of those before
I get a VLB accelerator card (unless it has an Opti chipset, look for Triton
or SiS)