Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!phil From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: about Diamond Speedstart VGA (Gateway 2000) Message-ID: <1991Feb1.222632.22777@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 1 Feb 91 22:26:32 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 26 Gateway 2000 recently switched to selling the Diamond Speedstar VGA board in their systems (from ATI). I had never heard about it and got some magazine references, but these turned out to be some mentions of the board that were in favor without saying why. Gateway 2000 said the board was selected due to its high speed performance and 1 megabyte capacity. I can use the 1 megabyte capacity. However I don't need the highest speed. What I really need is the best degree of compatibility. I need a VGA board that will work with software designed to run on VGA and SVGA systems in all the modes the program was designed to handle. If it can do 1024x768x256 color I want it to work in that mode on mine. Also I want to be able to test software I develop (that's what I will be using the machine for mostly) that uses lots of these extended modes and be sure that my software will work in the available modes on the various other boards on the market that are good at compatibility. If some board doesn't take compatibility seriously, then I can't take that board seriously. So is this Diamond Speedstar a decent board to work with or should I go back to just getting ATI (which in published tests had a "very good" level of compatibility with a "good" speed). I just don't have any data on the Diamond Speedstar to compare. -- --Phil Howard, KA9WGN-- | Individual CHOICE is fundamental to a free society | no matter what the particular issue is all about.