Re: Diamond Launches Diamond Edge 3D Card

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From: ry... Robert Yung
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 00:00

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I'm a bit confused about the chipset of the Edge 3D card. It is said that 
SEGA has made a deal to release games for the NVIDIA chipset. I thought 
that's great, but according to the diamond press release, the 2000 series 
cards don't use  the NVIDIA chip, but rather the STG2000 by SGS Thomson. 
Only the 3000 series cards use NVIDIA technology and are at least $150 
more than the 2000 series (around $400-$450).

So which card is the ONE to get? $400 is quite a lot. Which card would 
game companies be writing for? If the cheaper card can do 640x480x65K at 
30fsp, I'm for that (better still if just on a 486). Who needs to run 
stuff at 1024x758 (eyestrain and can't afford the 17" monitor). Also, the 
system ram based wavetable part is very interesting. Anyone have more 
info on this? No more rom restriction or dedicated ram!

btw, which chipset is the 3dblaster using? thanks!

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Date: 1995/09/21
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