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From: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: ATI VGA card fast?
Message-ID: <1074@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 2 May 91 15:50:20 GMT
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Reply-To: ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries)
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->How are the new ATI VGA cards?  I've got an old Orchid Prodesigner Plus
->right now, and a friend wants to sell his new ATI VGA Wonder Plus card
->to me.  
->
->Are these new ATI VGA cards faster than my Prodesigner?  What would ti
->cost to upgrade the ATI card from 512k to 1meg?

  I don't know the relative performance compared to Prodesigner, but I
  can say that compared to the old ATI Wonder 512K and the "older"
  ATI Wonder+ 512K, the "new" Wonder+ 1024K is 3 times as SLOW when
  initializing 256 color screens.  For example, the old card took
  ~10 seconds to load and get to the "Do you have a joystick?" prompt
  in the LucusFilm "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaft" demo (on a 486-33).
  The Wonder+ 1024 took ~33 seconds to do the same thing.  Needless
  to say, I sent my "upgrade" back.  Windows 3.0 initialization was
  also slower, although once in windows, the refreshes were decent.

  Marc Ries