hns@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Henning Spruth) (01/14/91)
Hello, I'm currently looking for a Super VGA card. I have an 80386/25 MHz with a NEC 3D monitor. The cards based on the ET 4000 seem to be not too bad. Who as any experience with this product? Particularly, I would like to know - if there exist OS/2 drivers for these cards - how compatible various brands of ET4000-cards are with another - how they compare in speed to other upper-range VGA cards (e.g. Video 7 etc.) Please post your replys or mail them to hsn@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
DWS37@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Klaus Wilting) (01/21/91)
I'm selling those ET4000-SVGA cards. They're currently at about DM 298 w/ 1 MB video RAM. There're two major versions on the market today: -- cards based on the orginal TSENG-LABs ET4000 chip -- cards based on the faster (!) TRIDENT 8900 chip Watch out when buying ET-4000 cards, 1990 versions *do* come with high-resolution drivers for WINDOWS 3.0, but they *don't* work in the 386-enhanced mode ! The updated version should cause no more trouble -- so far... No problems ocurred in WINDOWS 3.0 with the TRIDENT-versions, yet. OS/2 should work with most cards. UNIX-systems (e.g. SCO) cause many many trouble in enhanced VGA-modes... That's all about my experiences. I'm personally using GENOA-6000 cards. The model 6400-A provides flickerfree 70Hz screens even with resolutions up to 1024x768. I think, this is more worth than 256 colours... ...and remember: WINDOWS 3.0 uses the 256 colours *only* on it's title screen...:-))))) ++-++ BYE ++--++ (K. Wilting, DWS37@DMSWWU1A EARN/BITNET)
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (01/23/91)
I got a SWAN board, 1MB and ET4000 chipset. It was $199, and available
in interlace or not at your pleasure. Runs perfectly under DOS, I'm
still checking with UNIX.
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