matrox wram

can anyone tell me if a matrox with wram is a good card or should i be looking for something with vram... this is for dos related stuff as well as windows .??!! you can e-mail me the answer if you want

> can anyone tell me if a matrox with wram is a good card or should i be > looking for something with vram... this is for dos related stuff as > well as windows .??!! Dave, The term "WRAM" doesn't mean that it's only usable under Windows. It's just a different type of video memory. In terms of speed, the order (from slowest to fastest) of video RAM is : DRAM, VRAM, and then WRAM. There are some newer ones out now as well. The Matrox has stellar Windows 2-D speed and is in the top 2 for raw DOS speed. But, it really can't compete with the new 3-D cards coming out nowadays since it doesn't have any "hardware-assisted" 3-D capabilities. I bought the Matrox Millenium about 2 years ago and still have it and still am very happy with it. Matrox, as a company, is very VERY good about updating their drivers. Matrox also has a flash BIOS that has been updated from version 1.8 to 2.2 since I've had it. Good luck, Ray

Ray, I also have a Matrox that I got earlier this year. How do yo know BIOS is running on the card? J. Villanueva

You simply watch the screen at boot up and look for the bios revision number. Clark

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>Ray, >I also have a Matrox that I got earlier this year. How do yo know BIOS is >running on the card? > >J. Villanueva > >> >> Dave, >> The term "WRAM" doesn't mean that it's only usable under Windows. > It's >> just a different type of video memory. In terms of speed, the order >> (from slowest to fastest) of video RAM is : DRAM, VRAM, and then WRAM. >> There are some newer ones out now as well. >> The Matrox has stellar Windows 2-D speed and is in the top 2 for raw >> DOS speed. But, it really can't compete with the new 3-D cards coming >> out nowadays since it doesn't have any "hardware-assisted" 3-D >> capabilities. >> I bought the Matrox Millenium about 2 years ago and still have it and >> still am very happy with it. Matrox, as a company, is very VERY good >> about updating their drivers. Matrox also has a flash BIOS that has >> been updated from version 1.8 to 2.2 since I've had it. >> >> Good luck, >> Ray >>

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>> can anyone tell me if a matrox with wram is a good card or should i be >> looking for something with vram... this is for dos related stuff as > well as windows .??!! >Dave, > The term "WRAM" doesn't mean that it's only usable under Windows. It's >just a different type of video memory. In terms of speed, the order >(from slowest to fastest) of video RAM is : DRAM, VRAM, and then WRAM. >There are some newer ones out now as well.

The newest stuff is SGRAM which is faster than VRAM, almost as fast as WRAM. You can find it e.g. on the Matrox Mystique which is, as far as 2D GFX are concerned, slightly slower than the Millennium. I forgot what "SG" stands for, though. Shep