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From: woan@nowhere (Ronald S Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Mentor & Trident VGA cards - which one is the best ?
Summary: Tseng Labs ET4000 based cards are much faster
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Date: 3 Apr 91 15:17:25 GMT
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In article <1991Apr3.071713.6290@fel.tno.nl> jsgn3@fel.tno.nl (Jos Groot) writes:
>- Mentor card based on Tseng's ET4000 Turbo MegaVGA Chip and BIOS
>
>- Trident card
>
>Both have 1 Mb RAM and support a 1024*768 pixels non-interlaced display.
>Can anyone recommend one of these cards on ground of capabilities, speed,
>compatibility, etc. ?

Software support is about even but the Trident cards are dogs when it
comes to Windows 3.0 use at the higher resolutions. Go with the ET4000
based card...


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