Fastest VLB Video Card for Windows 3.11

From: Teo Zenios <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Wed Apr 28 20:58:03 2004

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From: <jpero_at_sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Fastest VLB Video Card for Windows 3.11


>
> > A while ago I put together a 486/66 system to play around with all my
windows 3.1 apps I have used in the past. I was wondering what the fastest
VLB video card ever made for windows 3.1x was. I remem>
> > Google has allot of information about what the best DOS gaming card was,
but not that much on windows 3.1 (which is what I am interested in).
> >
> > Also what's the best video intensive benchmarking app to test out cards
with?
> >
> > I have the following cards (and others but they are slower):
> >
> > Diamond Viper VLB 1mb VRAM
> > Diamond Viper VLB 2mb VRAM
> > (while both have the P9000 chip for windows acceleration they have 2
> > different chips for vga)
>
> Correct: The dual chipsets was oak chipset and P9000. The dos mode
> is slooooooow. Unaccelerated slow but when in accelerated it's very
> quick.
>
> > Diamond Video 3000 (Stealth 64 Video Vram VLB) 4mb (S3 968 Chipset)
>
> S3 was decent for the gaming and GUI acceleration.
>
> > Diamond Speedstar pro VLB 1mb DRAM
>
> This WAS what I had, there was four versions:
> 1MB (expandable to two), 2MB, some was Tnesg 4000/W32i or W32p
> I had 2MB W32p VLB. Very nice for old gaming like doom, windows and
> dos mode. It is more like all-around chipset and fast. But there is
> so many generic and good other brands based on the Tnesg 4000/W32p
> VLB cards not just Hercules.
>
> S3 968 is also good and fast in GUI acceleration mode and supported
> by many games. Uncertain in text mode.
>
> > Hercules graphite 1mb VRAM (IIT chipset)
>
> Very little support because IIT chipset wasn't so common back then.
>
> The MOST common ones were sucky cirrus logic or slooow Trident. Some
> S3'ers, least common was Tnesg or P9000.
>
> > Matrox Plus 2mb VLB (early matrox chip and a very long card that has
space
> > for another 2mb vram)
>
> That, I haven't seen one YET! Got a photo of this?
>
> I may be wrong but didn't Matrox produced Millennium I VLB not PCI?
>
> > These cards are from the early 90's so it should be on-topic for the
list.
>
> Parallel to this classic video cards from that era, my friend had his
> P9000 based PCI had 8 VRAM and RAMDAC ICs all liberally burnt up!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wizard
>

I can toss the card onto my scanner and get a jpg of it (matrox card). I
never seen one until it came up for sale on ebay, trying to find some vram
to max it out at 4mb.
Received on Wed Apr 28 2004 - 20:58:03 BST