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Started by Jimbo
Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:00
Please read, do you feel the same way about his as I do?
Author: Jimbo
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:00
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I recently bought a new Diamond Stealth III S540 Xtreme graphics card (but this applies to all other Savage 4) to go in a VIA MVP3 TMC AI5VG+ motherboard (but this applied to all other VIA MVP3). What irritates me is that neither do exactly what is says on the box. The box and specs. say that both the motherboard and card support AGP 2x and sidebanding on. However to get the computer stable AGP 2x must definitely be turned off and sidebanding being on does not help general stability. Both manufactures have also recently released updates for compatibility which force their products to run slower than their rated speed. Diamond released a BIOS update which cannot be undone (no original BIOS is included) which forces sideband off WHATEVER other settings are used. VIAs AGP gart drivers later than version 3 disable AGP 2x automatically so it cannot be forced back on. It has taken me months of work and testing to come to these conclusions. I am not being overly picky to expect products to perform as they are marketed, especially when they have been bought for premium prices from three widely respected companies. Surely there must be something that can be done to stop this widely recognised basic dishonesty from major companies? I would try buying elsewhere, but these companies are supposed to be some of the best and all companies seem to behave in the same way. Please post/mail me your response to this and say what you think. I'm not being unreasonable to expect products to work as stated. B.T.W. - if you disagree with this then please say which MVP3 or Savage4 you use and how you found your info.
Re: Please read, do you feel the same way about his as I do?
Author: Gabriel
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:00
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It's true - I have a CL S4, running on a fairly standard Intel440BX m/board. I have had to spend hours getting it to work - I am now running at 1X AGP like yourself to keep it stable. Recently, I attempted to upgrade the drivers, thinking that nothing could go wrong now that I am running at 1X AGP. Wrong! I had to get the right 'ICD' otherwise HL crashes! I am happy with the card with S3TC, but I often long for a simple voodoo based solution, no worries about drivers, ICD's, motherboard types etc. Gabriel Jimbo <jonbigbottom@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:8b8vlc$9uq$1@plutonium.btinternet.com... > I recently bought a new Diamond Stealth III S540 Xtreme graphics card (but > this applies to all other Savage 4) to go in a VIA MVP3 TMC AI5VG+ > motherboard (but this applied to all other VIA MVP3). > > What irritates me is that neither do exactly what is says on the box. The > box and specs. say that both the motherboard and card support AGP 2x and > sidebanding on. However to get the computer stable AGP 2x must definitely > be turned off and sidebanding being on does not help general stability. > Both manufactures have also recently released updates for compatibility > which force their products to run slower than their rated speed. Diamond > released a BIOS update which cannot be undone (no original BIOS is included) > which forces sideband off WHATEVER other settings are used. VIAs AGP gart > drivers later than version 3 disable AGP 2x automatically so it cannot be > forced back on. It has taken me months of work and testing to come to these > conclusions. > > I am not being overly picky to expect products to perform as they are > marketed, especially when they have been bought for premium prices from > three widely respected companies. Surely there must be something that can > be done to stop this widely recognised basic dishonesty from major > companies? I would try buying elsewhere, but these companies are supposed > to be some of the best and all companies seem to behave in the same way. > > Please post/mail me your response to this and say what you think. I'm not > being unreasonable to expect products to work as stated. > > B.T.W. - if you disagree with this then please say which MVP3 or Savage4 you > use and how you found your info. > >
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