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by **bgee** » Fri, 28 Oct 1994 23:50:45

My home machine is an ISA-only 486DX-33 & I'm painfulling using a
Trident display card. The Trident is ok until it starts scrolling an
xterm window, as with a lengthy directory or file cat. The scroll is
painfully slow.

My work machine has a motherboard S3 implementation & is very fast --
the scrolls flash into place; however, the motherboard & 32-bit slot
implementations benchmark much faster than all the ISA stuff.

I saw a benchmark that indicate the Actix GE32 is some 12 times faster
than the Trident. I like to get a feel for what real performance
improvement I should expect.

Cheers, Bob
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by **Shawn Car** » Sat, 29 Oct 1994 02:29:19

>My home machine is an ISA-only 486DX-33 & I'm painfulling using a
>Trident display card. The Trident is ok until it starts scrolling an
>xterm window, as with a lengthy directory or file cat. The scroll is
>painfully slow.

>My work machine has a motherboard S3 implementation & is very fast --
>the scrolls flash into place; however, the motherboard & 32-bit slot
>implementations benchmark much faster than all the ISA stuff.

Generally speaking, going from an ET4000 based card to an S3 based
card will make *much* more difference than ISA->VLB. I used an
Actix GE32+ VLB for a while and was pretty happy with it. Right
now I'm using an Orchid F1280+ ISA, and if anything, the Orchid
feels slightly faster to me than the Actix.

Quote:>I saw a benchmark that indicate the Actix GE32 is some 12 times faster
>than the Trident. I like to get a feel for what real performance
>improvement I should expect.

Going to just about any S3 based card will make your system feel
like a screamer if you're used to an ET4000.

-Shawn Carey

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Anyone using an Actix GE32 ISA card?

Anyone using an Actix GE32 ISA card?

Anyone using an Actix GE32 ISA card?