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Article #18857Re: Local Bus?
From: Iskandar Taib
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 02:12
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 02:12
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In article <28906@oasys.dt.navy.mil> whitesto@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Jr., Robert Whitestone) writes: >In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, fbruno@ysw526 (F. Bruno) writes: >>Hi! >>I have just side-graded to a 486-50 FOREX motherboard w/ local bus. Side >>grading meaning that I used to have a buggy Opti 486-50 MB. Now I am stuck. >>I already have a Diamond Stealth VRAM and I don't know whether I should shell >>out the extra $150. for the local bus video or not. Please help. Will the >>local bus give me better performance than the Stealth? I am happy w/ the >>stealth, but if the LB card would be significantly faster, then it may be >>worth it. Depends on what someone would pay you for the Stealth, I guess.. say $100 or so, since a Speedstar 24X is around $155. So your cost is down to $50. Still, don't know if its faster. > I'm just curious, why else would you have side-graded to a > local bus, if not for a local bus video card? He sticks his video card on ISA of course... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala Internet: NTAIB@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS !
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!ntaib From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) Subject: Re: Local Bus? Message-ID: <C0CzGn.E4L@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: silver.ucs.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University References: <1992Dec22.174131.11247@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com> <28906@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:12:23 GMT Lines: 31