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From: DWS37@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Klaus Wilting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Recommendation on ET4000 Super VGA card needed
Message-ID: <91020.151604DWS37@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
Date: 21 Jan 91 04:35:49 GMT
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Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany

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)