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th...@aloha.cc.columbia.edu (Tom  Hong) writes:
>In article <D07Lz...@scu.edu.au>, Nightfox <pfle...@scu.edu.au> wrote:
>>: 	Is this a 128-bit graphic card or something else?

>>I got the impreesion that it was a graphic card. I really can't remember
>>where I read it though. Maybe they'll get getting bigger busses with every
>>new motherboard, until the get one that stretches from here to the moon :)

>	When they say a graphics card is 24-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, or 128-bit,
>it has nothing to do with bus width.  All the above cards use a 32-bit-
>datapath bus (PCI, VLB, or EISA), or 16-bit if one still uses an antiquated
>ISA machine.

	Me! :-)


>24-bit simply means the ability to display 16.7 million colors
>at 640x480, 32-bit means 800x600x16.7m, 64-bit means 1024x786x16.7m, and
>128-bit means 1248x1024x16.7m.

	Well, that makes everything clear... thanks for the info.  Just a final
point, the Mb of RAM on a card has nothing to do with the X-bits of a graphic
card?


>The only 128-bit graphics card out there
>right now is the Imagine128 by Number Nine, which is bundled with Dell
>Pentium-90s.  It uses the 32-bit PCI bus.
>TRH Sends

	So a Tseng LAbs ET4000-w32p is what "bits" graphic card, please?

						- Falcon