wp@iddth.id.dk (Wiesiek Pawlowski (900415#GUEST)) (03/27/91)
Hi, does anybody have any experience with the following pieces of hardware: - TRIDENT Super VGA with 1MB video RAM - CTX Super VGA monitor 14" 1024x768 Res, 0.29mm Dot pitch - Quantum IDE hard drive 100M 17ms with 64K Cache buffer. Are they reliable? I am from Poland and I'm trying to buy a 386/25?33 sytem. I've faxed a company called Standard Computer Inc. and they look quite good but I'd like to get some "independent" input on the quality of the hardware they sell. Any comments? With the best wishes, Wiesiek Pawlowski ======================================================================= temporarily at DTH, Copenhagen, Denamark wp@id.dth.dk ======================================================================= -- | Nick Sandru (alias Long Haired Nick) | Backpacker's First Law: | Hoje Topholm 37 | e-mail: | "The thing you need lies either | DK-3390 Hundested | ns@iddth.id.dk | in the bottom of your backpack, | Denmark | news@iddth.id.dk | or in a closet at your home..."
woan@nowhere (Ronald S Woan) (03/28/91)
In article <wp.670073618@iddth2> wp@iddth.id.dk (Wiesiek Pawlowski (900415#GUEST)) writes: >does anybody have any experience with the following pieces of hardware: > - TRIDENT Super VGA with 1MB video RAM While reliable, these are very slow especially in the the Super VGA modes under Windows 3.0. I think you'd be much better off with a Tseng Labs ET4000 based card at roughly the same prices. -- +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@cactus.org or woan@austin.vnet.ibm.com + + other email addresses Prodigy: XTCR74A Compuserve: 73530,2537 +
nyet@nntp-server.caltech.edu (n liu) (03/28/91)
woan@nowhere (Ronald S Woan) writes: >In article <wp.670073618@iddth2> wp@iddth.id.dk (Wiesiek Pawlowski (900415#GUEST)) writes: >>does anybody have any experience with the following pieces of hardware: >> - TRIDENT Super VGA with 1MB video RAM >While reliable, these are very slow especially in the the Super VGA >modes under Windows 3.0. I think you'd be much better off with a Tseng >Labs ET4000 based card at roughly the same prices. I have both a Trident 8900 1Meg and a CTX monitor - the monitor is fairly good, considering its not a "real" multisync; its a trisync. It IS far superior to many other trisync monitors are concerned, as far as dot pitch and sync speed is concerned. I do have to bitch a little about the Trident 8900 card though - yes, the old windows 3.0 drivers were REAL slow for 256 color modes, although there is a beta version out on trident's bbs in sunnyvale (can get # if you want it, but don't have it handy). The beta version is supposedly "up to 5x faster," which makes it pretty tolerable. I use the 800x600x256 mode because the 1024x768 interlaced mode is TERRIBLE. This is due to the card (i think) because i did some mixing and matching with my friend's Swan (Tseng ET4000) card and his NEC 3d. Essentially, the Swan looked GREAT on the CTX and the Trident sucked hard on the NEC 3D. Of course, i think the Swan has about 5 separate timing crystals as opposed to the Trident's one 40Mhz crystal (with probably a dozen different dividing circuits). This no doubt is a vital difference in the interlaced modes where precise timing is critical. The only advantage my trident card had was a non-interlaced 1024 mode, although i'm told the new Swans have it too now. I didn't have a monitor that had the 1024 non-int. mode, so i sadly didn't get to try the mode out on the Trident. Overall though, its a pretty decent card as far as speed and reliability go. One word of warning - since the CTX is not a true multisync make SURE that all modes on whatever video card you buy have scan rates that the CTX can sync to. Good luck! nye