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To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
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Subject: Re: bt848-user video card survey 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Mar 1997 10:36:41 EST."
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 12:02:44 -0800
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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I have a Diamond S3 968 with 4 MB of VRAM it is pretty fast for PCI
to PCI transfer. Sorry I forgot the Diamond Model.

I typically run at 1024x768 32bits.

I would investigate the new S3 VirgeX thats the one with VRAM which
is supposed to be faster than the S3 968 and you can take advantage
of its 3d capabilities in Win95 . 


	Regards,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of "Louis A. Mamakos" :
> 
> I'm using a #9 Motion 771 video board, with 4MB of VRAM.  It's based on
> the S3-968, and mine has an IBM 220MHz RAMDAC on-board.  I'm told that
> there are differing RAMDACs on the these boards, depending on OEM version
> or not, but I've not observed it.
> 
> I'm running the board at 1152x900, at a 110MHz dot clock.  According to
> xvidtune, I'm running 73.92 kHz horizontal refresh, 79.57 Hz vertical
> refresh rate.
> 
> The XFree86 3.2 version of the X server support 32 bits per pixel (8/8/8),
> which I think precludes 1280x1024.  I think that future versions will 
> support the 24 bits per pixed packed mode, but we'll need to fix up the
> brooktree driver to accomodate that..
> 
> Obviously, the PCI to PCI bus transfer from my Wincast/TV works pretty
> well.  The Win95 drivers are also pretty nifty.
> 
> louie
> 
> i'm running with a 79.57 Hz vertical refresh, 7
>