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Best Video Card

Simon Davie

Best Video Card

by Simon Davie » Mon, 23 Sep 1996 04:00:00

Hi All
Could someone please tell me which is the best video card
to get for GP2 I currently use ATI Mach64 and from other
posts gather this isn't very good.
Also is there anybody out there who's overclocked a P90
to P120, if so have you found any problems with doing this.

Craig March

Best Video Card

by Craig March » Tue, 24 Sep 1996 04:00:00

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I have used in my P133 a Trident 9440 pci (yuch!), next and ATI Mach64,
then a generic S3 Trio64+, (Big improvement) and now, finally a Matrox
Mellinium. All had 2mb Ram, and basically were in improvement in the order
listed. My vid scores on p133 with the Trident: 69, ATI: 70, S3 Trio64+:
~330, and the Matrox scored over 400. Now with a p166, the Matrox gets
around 440 or so. For dollar value, the Trio64+ was the best. I only paid
$55 for the card with 1mb, then added the second meg for around $40. I paid
almost the same price for the Trident. The Trident sucked in windows and
dos, the ATI only sucked in dos, the S3 worked as well as the ATI in
windows, but surpassed it in dos, and the Matrox just kills all of them in
either os. Hope this helps your decision.

Craig Marcho

Andrew T. Dishon

Best Video Card

by Andrew T. Dishon » Tue, 24 Sep 1996 04:00:00


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> Craig Marcho
> Visit My Page At:
> http://members.gnn.com/cmarcho/



> > Hi All
> > Could someone please tell me which is the best video card
> > to get for GP2 I currently use ATI Mach64 and from other
> > posts gather this isn't very good.
> > Also is there anybody out there who's overclocked a P90
> > to P120, if so have you found any problems with doing this.

> I have used in my P133 a Trident 9440 pci (yuch!), next and ATI Mach64,
> then a generic S3 Trio64+, (Big improvement) and now, finally a Matrox
> Mellinium. All had 2mb Ram, and basically were in improvement in the order
> listed. My vid scores on p133 with the Trident: 69, ATI: 70, S3 Trio64+:
> ~330, and the Matrox scored over 400. Now with a p166, the Matrox gets
> around 440 or so. For dollar value, the Trio64+ was the best. I only paid
> $55 for the card with 1mb, then added the second meg for around $40. I paid
> almost the same price for the Trident. The Trident sucked in windows and
> dos, the ATI only sucked in dos, the S3 worked as well as the ATI in
> windows, but surpassed it in dos, and the Matrox just kills all of them in
> either os. Hope this helps your decision.

> Craig Marcho

I just bought a Matorx Mellinium card with 4mb of WRAM for $252.00 from

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marco weijte

Best Video Card

by marco weijte » Wed, 25 Sep 1996 04:00:00



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>> Craig Marcho
>> Visit My Page At:
>> http://members.gnn.com/cmarcho/



>> > Hi All
>> > Could someone please tell me which is the best video card
>> > to get for GP2 I currently use ATI Mach64 and from other
>> > posts gather this isn't very good.
>> > Also is there anybody out there who's overclocked a P90
>> > to P120, if so have you found any problems with doing this.

>> I have used in my P133 a Trident 9440 pci (yuch!), next and ATI Mach64,
>> then a generic S3 Trio64+, (Big improvement) and now, finally a Matrox
>> Mellinium. All had 2mb Ram, and basically were in improvement in the order
>> listed. My vid scores on p133 with the Trident: 69, ATI: 70, S3 Trio64+:
>> ~330, and the Matrox scored over 400. Now with a p166, the Matrox gets
>> around 440 or so. For dollar value, the Trio64+ was the best. I only paid
>> $55 for the card with 1mb, then added the second meg for around $40. I paid
>> almost the same price for the Trident. The Trident sucked in windows and
>> dos, the ATI only sucked in dos, the S3 worked as well as the ATI in
>> windows, but surpassed it in dos, and the Matrox just kills all of them in
>> either os. Hope this helps your decision.

>> Craig Marcho
>I just bought a Matorx Mellinium card with 4mb of WRAM for $252.00 from

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>Systems Support Engineer WR-282 Voice Mail 5-8292
>Silicon Graphics Inc.
>6501 Americas Pkwy. #565
>Albuquerque NM. 87110   Phone: 505-875-3473
>----------------------------------------------------------
>Albuquerque Service Home Page: http://ibanez.albuquerque.sgi.com/
>Personal Home Page: http://reality.sgi.com/dishong_albuquerque/

>             Life is better on a Harley!
>    " If you need to ask, you would never understand."


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