shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) (10/24/90)
In my quest for finding the cheapest VGA board that has the ET4000
Tseng Labs Chipset, I have found the following:
Company: CompuAdd
Price: $239
Name: CompuAdd Hi-res VGA board
Chipset: Tseng Labs ET4000 w / 512K
Add Mem: You can get another 512K for $39
MBG: 30 day money back guarantee with no questions asked
Phone #: 1-800-333-2429
Contact: Jim Robertson (ext. 2777)
I, among many others, am eagerly awaiting the arrival of Tom Roell's new
x11r4 VGA server which will take full advantage of the ET3000 and ET4000.
If anybody has found an even cheaper source for a ET4000 board I would love
to know...please post reply. A page number from the Computer Shopper would
be great!
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Steve Hite
...gatech!uflorida!unf7!shitewoan@iti.org (Ronald S. Woan Jr.) (10/25/90)
shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) writes: >I, among many others, am eagerly awaiting the arrival of Tom Roell's new >x11r4 VGA server which will take full advantage of the ET3000 and ET4000. >If anybody has found an even cheaper source for a ET4000 board I would love >to know...please post reply. A page number from the Computer Shopper would >be great! No page number, but both PC Brand and Swan offers boards based on said chip sets for less... The STB Powerview is also ET4000 based and has been seen for less than the CompuAdd version... -- +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@peyote.cactus.org or woan%austin@iinus1.ibm.com + + other email addresses Prodigy: XTCR74A Compuserve: 73530,2537 +
bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras) (10/27/90)
In article <4021@awdprime.UUCP> woan@iti.org (Ronald S. Woan Jr.) writes: >shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) writes: >>I, among many others, am eagerly awaiting the arrival of Tom Roell's new >>x11r4 VGA server which will take full advantage of the ET3000 and ET4000. >>If anybody has found an even cheaper source for a ET4000 board I would love >>to know...please post reply. A page number from the Computer Shopper would >>be great! > >No page number, but both PC Brand and Swan offers boards based on said >chip sets for less... The STB Powerview is also ET4000 based and has ^^^^^^^^^ Powergraph >been seen for less than the CompuAdd version... > I bought a STB Powergraph VGA w/1MB for $189. It came with all the Windows drivers you could ever want. Vpic GIF viewer and a 1024x768x256 GIF came with so I could see my card working its butt off. The ROM it came with was old (v1.3), which was causing a problem with my harddrive. I called STB, they told me I had old bios, and practically in the same breath asked me my mailing address and said it would be in the mail later on that same day. I received it a few days later. Talk about great service. The ROM upgrade cost me $0.00. I didn't even have to pay for shipping. This is a good card to get. +-----------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Bill Poitras | Polygen Corporation | {princeton mit-eddie | | (bill) | Waltham, MA USA | bu sunne}!polygen!bill | | | | bill@polygen.com | +-----------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+
paul@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Paul Thiessen) (10/28/90)
In article <312@unf7.UUCP> shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) writes: > >If anybody has found an even cheaper source for a ET4000 board I would love >to know...please post reply. A page number from the Computer Shopper would >be great! I just bought Swan's ET4000 board with 1MB VRAM for $230. It works beautifully, all the way up to 1024x768x256. -Paul paul@jarthur.claremont.edu
smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith) (10/28/90)
In article <9360@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> paul@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Paul Thiessen) writes: >In article <312@unf7.UUCP> shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) writes: >> >>If anybody has found an even cheaper source for a ET4000 board I would love >>to know...please post reply. A page number from the Computer Shopper would >>be great! > >I just bought Swan's ET4000 board with 1MB VRAM for $230. It works >beautifully, all the way up to 1024x768x256. The cheapest board that was reviewed in September's Computer Shopper was the Swan Super VGA, as Stephen Hite mentions above. If you only need 256k instead of the 1MB it should only cost around $149. S. "Stevie" Smith \ + / <smsmith@hpuxa. \+++++/ " #*&<-[89s]*(k#$@-_=//a2$]'+=.(2_&*%>,,@ ircc.ohio-state. \ + / {7%*@,..":27g)-=,#*:.#,/6&1*.4-,l@#9:-) " edu> \ + / BTW, WYSInaWYG \ + / --witty.saying.ARC
roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Thomas Roell) (10/31/90)
>I, among many others, am eagerly awaiting the arrival of Tom Roell's new >x11r4 VGA server which will take full advantage of the ET3000 and ET4000. >If anybody has found an even cheaper source for a ET4000 board I would love >to know...please post reply. A page number from the Computer Shopper would >be great! Yeah, I think it's coming up next week (watch comp.unix.sysv386). I will post I list of VGA boards on that the server has allready run on. There seem to be problems for VGA's with ET-4000 chipset (selecting different dot-clocks). So you can wait for the server to arrive, buy than a vga. - Thomas -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Mail: Thomas Roell (c/o Daniel Hernandez) Inst. f. Informatik / Technische Universitaet M"unchen Arcisstr. 21 / 8000 Munich 2 / Fed.Rep. of Germany E-Mail (domain): roell@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de UUCP (when above fails): roell@tumult.{uucp | informatik.tu-muenchen.de} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen) (11/01/90)
In <312@unf7.UUCP>, shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) wrote: > I, among many others, am eagerly awaiting the arrival of Tom Roell's new > x11r4 VGA server which will take full advantage of the ET3000 and ET4000. Keep in mind that ET-4000 boards are not necessarily software compatible. In particular, clock selection is done differently in each one. We have code & configuration files for Roell's server for the Sigma Legend and the STB Powergraph, but other VGAs will take some small modification of the VGA code to get them to work. -- James R. Van Artsdalen james@raid.dell.com "Live Free or Die" Dell Computer Corporation 9505 Arboretum Blvd Austin TX 78759 512-338-8789
bruce@ssc-vax.UUCP (Bruce Stock) (11/01/90)
Ok folks, which chip is to be preferred, the ET3000 or the ET4000? About all I know at this point is that the 3000 has some impressive pan and zoom built in. Your viewpoint appreciated. Bruce Stock uw-beaver!ssc-vax!bruce