Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpsgwp!plim From: plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: ATI 8514/Ultra...first impressions Message-ID: <3370027@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> Date: 24 May 91 09:01:22 GMT References: <1991May22.185158.23405@hollie.rdg.dec.com> Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr Lines: 31 / roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell) / 9:43 pm May 23, 1991 / writes: $ >Has anybody had any experience with the new ATI 8514/Ultra card? The $ >magazine ad I read about it claimed it was up to 5 times faster than $ >even a TI 34010 equipped card. $ $ I didn't try out the ATI 8514/Ultra, but many different other 8514 clones. $ And the result was that a normal board outperformed all these highend $ boards with a 32MHz 34020. Note that this test didn't include CAD or other $ This is a little confusing. Are you saying the "32MHz 34020 boards" are the "highend boards" ? or that ATI 8514/Ultra is one of the "highend boards" ? In my knowledge, the ATI Ultra/8514 cost around US$500 a pop (or is it cheaper by street price ?). .... I am just waiting for the dust to settle before I try one. Regards, ___o``\________________________________________________ ___ __ _ _ Peter Lim. V````\ @ @ . .. ... .- -> 76 MIPS at under US$20K !! --- -- - - /.------------------------------------------------ === == = = >--_// . .. ... .- -> 57 MIPS at under US$12K !! `' . If you guessed SUN, IBM or DEC, you are wrong ! E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, Singapore 0410. #include