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Re: Local Bus?

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From: Iskandar Taib
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...



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