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From: eegeh@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Glen Elliot Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: BOCA/STB speed (speed of any card)
Message-ID: <1991May30.221356.24387@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 30 May 91 22:13:56 GMT
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In <1991May30.004228.1@cc.helsinki.fi> osmoviita@cc.helsinki.fi writes:

>In article <1991May28.232824.10754@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, eegeh@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Glen Elliot Harris) writes:
>> 
>>   Last week someone posted an artical stating that a BOCA SVGA card was
>> faster than an STB clone, this clone being identical to the PowerGraph/
>> EM16+.  The numbers were ~2300 for the STB and ~4500 for the BOCA.
>> These were tested(I think) in a '386.
>>   I have a Powergraph in my 16MHz '286 and it rates at 5400.  
>> 
>>   Something tells me that this 'clone' has maybe a few genetic
>> defects....
>> 
>> Glen Harris 
>> eegeh@wanda.jcu.edu.au
>> 
>> no .sig

>Do you have normal 8 MHz bus speed? Rising processor or bus speed or both
>in the same machine seems to give higher seed rates to these SVGAs.

>It would be nice to tell in addition to configuration the bus speed when
>speeds are measured.

>Kari Osmoviita		osmoviita@cc.helsinki.fi

  Hey, this board is _OLD_, it's actually an xtal swapped 12MHz board.
The bus speed is rocketing along as a whopping 8MHz.

Glen Harris