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In article <315d6827.1600578@news.demon.co.uk>, Womble
<Womble@selkirk.demon.co.uk> writes
>What is people's opinion on these two cards, in 2MB form. I'm using
>Windows 95 and also playing DOS6.22 games
>TIA

Hello Womble, or is it McWomble? : )

I have both of these cards. The first one I had was the Diamond,
although it's a Viper as opposed to the Stealth and I purchased it
before I upgraded to a Pentium. When I did the upgrade I couldn't use
the Diamond anymore as it is VLB and the Pentium motherboards are PCI. I
have stuck it in a spare machine. It is very fast, particularly with
things like Coreldraw screen refreshes but does not match the
performance of the Matrox. The Matrox however is running in a Pentium
133 so this probably has some bearing on it's seemingly better
performance

One advantage that the Diamond has is that screen resolution can be
changed 'on the fly' i.e. no rebooting whereas the Matrox needs to
restart Windows if you change the screen res.

One possible disadvantage with the Diamond may be that the drivers for
the card may be a bit sus for Windows 95. There has been a lot of
discussion on the relevant newsgroups about this so it may be worthwhile
you looking there. One such group is 'comp.os.ms-
windows.apps.utilities.win95'

Hope this helps
all the best
bazza
-- 
Barrie McLeod