Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Video Cards Summary: Video-7, Sony Message-ID: Date: 21 Aug 90 13:45:47 GMT References: <1742@abvax.UUCP> Reply-To: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 37 In article <1742@abvax.UUCP> jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) writes: >I would like to find a video card that works with windows in the >1024x768 and 800x600 modes. Does any card out there have drivers >yet to do this ? I have a Headland Technology Video-7 VRAM VGA. It has 800x600 and does 1024x768 noninterlaced. It can go up to 256 colors, even at 1024x768, although currently I believe the Win3 1024x768 driver can only do 16. According to an InfoWorld product comparison (July 16, 1990), this board equalled or exceeded the performance even of the high performance 8514/A and 34010 boards (costing three to four times as much) in most Windows tests, stomping them in the multitasking test. The VGA boards were much slower at Autocad redraws, as would be expected. IW ranked the Video-7 board the highest of all the VGA boards, claiming it had the highest performance and excellent driver support. V7's advertising does as well. They've cut the price recently, too -- I paid a bit over $300 at a local clone dealer, with the full complement of video RAM installed. (It comes with a seven year warranty, by the way.) V7's information number is 1-800-238-0101, in California, 1-800-962-5700, in Canada, 1-800-658-0642. If you plan to run at 1024x768 noninterlaced, by the way, a NEC Multisync 3D will not suffice -- it does not have enough bandwidth to support 1024x768 unless you run interlaced, and I think the interlace flicker, particularly with Windows with its many single-pixel-high lines, is unacceptable. I settled on a Sony Multiscan 14" monitor. The price is about the same (I paid around $625), and in a side-by-side comparison the Multiscan was, IMHO, much sharper at all resolutions. The 19" Sony Multiscan, which is what you really want if you are going to run at 1024x768, cost around $2200, which, unfortunately, puts it out of most peoples' price range (including mine). Obligatory Disclaimer: I have no relationship with Headland Technology or Sony other than as a customer. -- -- uunet!ficc!karl "jackpot: you may have an unnecessary change record" uunet!sugar!karl -- v7 diff