[Q] Tseng vs Trident - which is better?
Gary Speechley
8900C is was using (changed due to motherboard chipset incompatibilities with
SCSI and the VGA cards).
Which is the better of the two VGA cards, and why?
Gary Speechley
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Iskandar Taib
Gary Speechley <g...@tstsp0.dsto.gov.au> wrote:
>I've just been given a Tseng Labs ET4000 VGA card in place of the old Trident
>8900C is was using (changed due to motherboard chipset incompatibilities with
>SCSI and the VGA cards).
You missed the postings about this particular debate by about 2 years ^_^
The Tseng ET-4000 chipset was the darling of the video card crowd
about 2 1/2 years ago, before things like the S3 chips appeared. It
was fast, worked well with Windows, and you could get "Turbo" drivers
for it. The Trident, by comparison, sucks.
Way back when I had a clone built and I specified a Diamond Speedstar
card (ET4000) A friend ordered a clone from the same vendor a week or
so before I did and not being a News reader got the default card (a
Trident 8900 based card of some sort). My CPU was a 386-40 (just out
at the time) and his was a 386-33. Under DOS they were pretty much
neck-and-neck (though my faster CPU and hard drive - Maxtor 7120 vs.
Seagate - did make a difference). Under Windows, though, I was happily
running at 800x600x256 at about twice to three times the speed he was
getting out of 640x480. He tried the 800x600 drivers and his speed
dropped off to maybe a quarter of mine. That and it caused GPFs
whenever he tried anything. So he called the vendor and had them
switch cards - after that he was fine.
I'm still using the machine by the way.. its as fast (faster,
actually) than the day I bought it and I'm just now thinking of
getting another motherboard (one of those 486DLC/40's maybe).
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: I've just been given a Tseng Labs ET4000 VGA card in place of the old Trident
: 8900C is was using (changed due to motherboard chipset incompatibilities with
: SCSI and the VGA cards).
: Which is the better of the two VGA cards, and why?
: Gary Speechley
: ---
: #include <Std_Caveats.h>
I gave my Trident card away and bought an ET4000. Landmark V2.0 video
performance tests show that my performance improved from 3200+ chr/s to
5250 chr/s.
Joe Sabolefski
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: I gave my Trident card away and bought an ET4000. Landmark V2.0 video
: performance tests show that my performance improved from 3200+ chr/s to
: 5250 chr/s.
That's interesting, I just upgraded to a ET4000 from a Hercules card and
went from 800 chr/s to 3200+ chr/s. I'm running a 486SX@33Mhz. What
processor & speed are you running at? I'm happy with a 4X speed improvement
but 5200 chr/s would be even nicer.
-Joe
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