chuj@horton.colorado.edu (CHU JEFFREY) (06/15/91)
I just tried my new Trident SVGA 1MB card against my 1 year old STB POWERGRAPH 1 MB card, the machine used is a 486-33, application was POWER METER (ver. ?). The TRIDENT LOST, the most difference in the test was the FILL which was 3 seconds apart. PMUs, Trident was behind by about 20 PMU from the STB. I use the 640x480 16 color mode which was the highest rez for the test. I did this to decide where the card was going to be placed, the Trident is now in my 286-16 and the STB will remain in the 486-33. I had also problems before with the TRIDENT conflicting with the MICROSCIENCE 122meg RLL (customers machine). If you are deciding a STB or TRIDENT pick the STB card, never had any problems with it. Jeff
nyet@nntp-server.caltech.edu (n liu) (06/16/91)
chuj@horton.colorado.edu (CHU JEFFREY) writes: >I just tried my new Trident SVGA 1MB card against my 1 year old STB >POWERGRAPH 1 MB card, the machine used is a 486-33, application was >POWER METER (ver. ?). The TRIDENT LOST, the most difference in the >test was the FILL which was 3 seconds apart. PMUs, Trident was behind >by about 20 PMU from the STB. I use the 640x480 16 color mode which was >the highest rez for the test. I did this to decide where the card was >going to be placed, the Trident is now in my 286-16 and the STB will >remain in the 486-33. I had also problems before with the TRIDENT >conflicting with the MICROSCIENCE 122meg RLL (customers machine). If >you are deciding a STB or TRIDENT pick the STB card, never had any >problems with it. Total agreement here. Tseng4000 is simply a much better chipset than Trid8900. I'd go on and on here how much I need to replace my Trident card with a 4000, but i don't want to scare away potential suc(oops) buyers :-) Here's what vidspeed had to say: Swan Tseng4000: 2426 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.11Hz 40x25 (text) 2420 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.11Hz 80x25 (text) 2417 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.11Hz 80x50 (text) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.11Hz 320x200x4 (CGA) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.11Hz 640x200x2 (CGA) 2419 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.11Hz 640x200x16 (EGA) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 24.52KHz 70.11Hz 640x350x16 (EGA) 2417 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.11Hz 320x200x16 (EGA) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.11Hz 320x200x256 (VGA/MCGA) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 28.77KHz 59.96Hz 640x480x16 (VGA) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 28.77KHz 59.96Hz 640x480x2 (VGA/MCGA) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 35.90KHz 59.86Hz 800x600x2 (S-VGA) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 35.90KHz 59.86Hz 800x600x16 (S-VGA) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 24.52KHz 70.11Hz 640x350x256 (S-VGA) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 28.77KHz 59.96Hz 640x480x256 (S-VGA) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 35.90KHz 59.86Hz 800x600x256 (S-VGA) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 33.38KHz 86.97Hz 1024x768x2 (S-VGA) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 33.38KHz 86.97Hz 1024x768x16 (S-VGA) 2418 Bytes per millisecond 28.79KHz 60.00Hz 360x480x256 (VGA) My Trident 8900: 1828 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.10Hz 40x25 (text) 1774 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.10Hz 80x25 (text) 1773 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.10Hz 80x50 (text) 1760 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.10Hz 320x200x4 (CGA) 850 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.10Hz 640x200x2 (CGA) 849 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.10Hz 640x200x16 (EGA) 849 Bytes per millisecond 24.52KHz 70.10Hz 640x350x16 (EGA) 850 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.10Hz 320x200x16 (EGA) 1751 Bytes per millisecond 28.03KHz 70.10Hz 320x200x256 (VGA/MCGA) 850 Bytes per millisecond 28.77KHz 59.95Hz 640x480x16 (VGA) 850 Bytes per millisecond 28.77KHz 59.95Hz 640x480x2 (VGA/MCGA) 843 Bytes per millisecond 33.74KHz 56.26Hz 800x600x2 (S-VGA) 843 Bytes per millisecond 33.74KHz 56.26Hz 800x600x16 (S-VGA) 1841 Bytes per millisecond 28.02KHz 70.08Hz 640x400x256 (S-VGA) 1841 Bytes per millisecond 28.75KHz 59.93Hz 640x480x256 (S-VGA) 1601 Bytes per millisecond 33.74KHz 56.26Hz 800x600x256 (S-VGA) 856 Bytes per millisecond 32.85KHz 85.60Hz 1024x768x2 (S-VGA) 856 Bytes per millisecond 32.85KHz 85.60Hz 1024x768x16 (S-VGA) 838 Bytes per millisecond 28.78KHz 59.99Hz 360x480x256 (VGA) 'nuff said!
hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama) (06/18/91)
In article <1991Jun15.190813.26882@nntp-server.caltech.edu> nyet@nntp-server.caltech.edu (n liu) writes: >chuj@horton.colorado.edu (CHU JEFFREY) writes: > >>I just tried my new Trident SVGA 1MB card against my 1 year old STB >>POWERGRAPH 1 MB card, the machine used is a 486-33, application was >>POWER METER (ver. ?). The TRIDENT LOST, the most difference in the >>test was the FILL which was 3 seconds apart. PMUs, Trident was behind >>by about 20 PMU from the STB. I use the 640x480 16 color mode which was >>the highest rez for the test. I did this to decide where the card was >>going to be placed, the Trident is now in my 286-16 and the STB will >>remain in the 486-33. I had also problems before with the TRIDENT >>conflicting with the MICROSCIENCE 122meg RLL (customers machine). If >>you are deciding a STB or TRIDENT pick the STB card, never had any >>problems with it. > >Total agreement here. Tseng4000 is simply a much better chipset >than Trid8900. I'd go on and on here how much I need to replace >my Trident card with a 4000, but i don't want to scare away potential >suc(oops) buyers :-) Come on. Please be more specific. What I have heard is that Trident is totally different when it comes from Taiwan or US. Also there are many and many different clones of Trident chip set. Also many versions. Based on this discussion we can't blame the whole Trident chip set can we. -- == Harri Valkama, University of Vaasa, Finland ============================ P.O. Box 700, 65101 VAASA, Finland (tel:+358 61 248426 fax:+358 61 248465) Anon ftp garbo.uwasa.fi (128.214.12.37) & nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) hv@uwasa.fi hv@finfiles.bitnet /s=hv/o=uwasa/prdm=inet/amdm=fumail/c=fi