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Re: Video Card Recommendation requested

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From: Dan Hemphill
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 00:00
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In article <53cbj6$2uq@news.smart.net>, mobius@smart.net says...
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>Matthew or Stephanie Floyd <mfloyd@eden.com> wrote:
>
>>Looking for recommendations on the best video card that meets the
>>following requirements. If you have negative recommendations against
>>certain cards, I would appreciate that also.
>
>>Bus: VLB
>
>I ran VL bus video for several years.  My recommdation NOW is to buy a
>new motherboard and use a modern Video Card with PCI bus.
>
>>Windows 95 Drivers
>>2 MB VRAM (expandable a plus)
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>VRAM is not necessarily a good choice.  The Faster Video cards don't
>use it.
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>>Price: less than $200.00
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>The STB Lightspeed and Hercules Dynamite 128 are both under $200 and
>both PCI.  You'll have trouble just finding a good VL bus card these
>days.
>
I agree, they are pretty much outdated now anyway..just about everyone i 
know is moving to Pentium..and i recently bought a Hercules Dynamite 
128, and i love it..much faster then my old Cirrus Logic..plus the 
synchronous MDRAM flies.
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From: Joe.filigno@compudata.com (Dan Hemphill)
Subject: Re: Video Card Recommendation requested
Date: 1996/10/14
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