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In article <C7xy...@news.iastate.edu> wi...@iastate.edu (Wity Ganda) writes:
>In article <1993Jun1.0...@newshost.lanl.gov> mas...@beta.lanl.gov (David A. Masten) writes:
>
>>I bought the Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB which is Cirrus 5426 based.
>>Costs only ~$130 discount (check a computer Shopper).  It benched
>>exactly the same as the far more expensive (and well reviewed) ATI
> ^^^^^^^

>According to the 3D-Bench list, ATi scores 47.6, so it's a little higher
>than the SS-Pro.  :)

Wity, I appreciate your compiling the 3Dbench list.  I would also 
appreciate your fully reading my post before you attempt to "correct"
me.  As I said, when I replaced the SS-Pro with the ATI UP VLB in
the SAME MACHINE it scored EXACTLY the same.  The fact that the ATI
scores higher in OTHER machines is irrelevant to my point. Further, when
I placed the SS-Pro in a Gateway 486/33, it scored a 26.3 in 3Dbench, just 
as the ATI had in that same machine.

>Diamond does make fast vga cards, but they do not want to give the
>information how to program their cards.
>So if you are thinking of running Xfree (free xwindows), don't buy a Diamond
>card.

The above is true and you might want to read comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware to
catch the occasional flames thrown Diamond's way.  You can *probably*
find similar performance in other non-Diamond Cirrus 5426-based VLB
cards.  Also, there is the ET4000w32 if you want DOS performance, plus 
some Windows acceleration.  But I haven't seen many benchmarks on them
yet.

>(Most people don't use their computer just to play games.  :) )

Wanna bet? :-)

Dave