stolk@fwi.uva.nl (Emperor) (05/06/91)
Hi all, Like many of you on this newsgroup I admire the characteristics of Super VGA, and I would like to get myself one. The card I am considering is called 8514 AX2 The card is manufactured by Trident and has Tseng ET4000AX chips. My question: What does the AX in ET4000AX stand for? Is it a special 8514 compatible version of ET4000? Or is it the same chipset as in other Super VGA cards like Orchid Prodesigner II? The card has a FIFO and a cache. That sounds real advanced, but is it? Or do all other SUper VGA cards based on Tseng have those too? The reason why I ask is that 8514 is 5 times faster than an ordinary Super VGA when doing Bitblit. The name of the Trident card suggests that it is a 8514 compatible card. But is it? And if so, does it provide the same speed? If you know an answer to these questions, please let me know, Thanks in advance, Bram Stolk /--------------------------------------------------------------\ | As a finishing touch, God created the Dutch. | |______________________________________________________________| | | | East, West, Intel Best - S.Sinnige | \______________________________________________________________/ stolk@fwi.uva.nl
roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell) (05/13/91)
>The card is manufactured by Trident and has Tseng ET4000AX chips. >My question: >What does the AX in ET4000AX stand for? >Is it a special 8514 compatible version of ET4000? Ok, everybody who wonders about Trident and Et4000 this is true. There is a Taiwanes company called Trident. This should be messed up with Trident Microsystems, the one who manufactors the TGVA8900 chipset. The board you are talking about is a normal Et4000 based board. No special thing. The notes about FIFO and cache apply to every Et4000 since what meant here is that the Et4000 can use delayed writes and some other stuff. >card suggests that it is a 8514 compatible card. But is it? And No. All the name is about is that with this board you'll get a 8514AI compatible driver that lets your Et4000 board act like a 8514/A form the view of the application which uses this driver. - Thomas -- _______________________________________________________________________________ E-Mail (domain): roell@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.de UUCP (if above fails): roell@tumult.{uucp | informatik.tu-muenchen.de} famous last words: "diskspace - the final frontier..."