bollard@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Lee M. Bollard) (04/30/91)
How are the new ATI VGA cards? I've got an old Orchid Prodesigner Plus right now, and a friend wants to sell his new ATI VGA Wonder Plus card to me. Are these new ATI VGA cards faster than my Prodesigner? What would ti cost to upgrade the ATI card from 512k to 1meg? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Lee Bollard unix: bollard@hpspkla.spk.hp.com Hewlett-Packard HPDesk: Lee BOLLARD / HP1000/53 Spokane Division Compuserve: 72105,423 (509)921-4608 * Opinions are my own, not my employer's * -----------------------------------------------------------------------
ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) (05/02/91)
->How are the new ATI VGA cards? I've got an old Orchid Prodesigner Plus ->right now, and a friend wants to sell his new ATI VGA Wonder Plus card ->to me. -> ->Are these new ATI VGA cards faster than my Prodesigner? What would ti ->cost to upgrade the ATI card from 512k to 1meg? I don't know the relative performance compared to Prodesigner, but I can say that compared to the old ATI Wonder 512K and the "older" ATI Wonder+ 512K, the "new" Wonder+ 1024K is 3 times as SLOW when initializing 256 color screens. For example, the old card took ~10 seconds to load and get to the "Do you have a joystick?" prompt in the LucusFilm "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaft" demo (on a 486-33). The Wonder+ 1024 took ~33 seconds to do the same thing. Needless to say, I sent my "upgrade" back. Windows 3.0 initialization was also slower, although once in windows, the refreshes were decent. Marc Ries