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Anonymous Coward
Joined: 20 Nov 2004
Posts: 589
Location: Shandong, China
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Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:01 am |
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I think Mach64 is a bit overkill in an XT. Mach64 excels at accelerated graphics, but the VGA performance is fairly average. According to a user on vintage-computer.com, the ET4000AX chipset is lightning fast on an XT. I think he was using a Diamond Speedstar of some sort. I'm considering upgrading to one of these cards. Supposedly it makes Wolf3D on the XT go faster.
The Mach64 ISA cards are really nice for 386 and 486 systems. I have the 4mb VRAM model you mentioned, and I love it. |
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k2x4b524p
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
Posts: 217
Location: Nor here nor there.
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Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:07 am |
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makes you feel better i have an old oak tech that works in 8bit mode  the slow chipset makes the xt go really snappy for video, strange huh |
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Unknown_K
Joined: 22 Apr 2007
Posts: 264
Location: Ohio/USA
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Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:48 am |
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ET4000AX is nice on an ISA 16 bit card as well for VGA. |
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wdegroot
Joined: 03 Feb 2006
Posts: 488
Location: pennsylvanai
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Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:41 pm |
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it really does not matter that much
WHY
because to get the max benefit from a video card
you have to use the drivers, and for newer cards there will be no drivers for old xt-style apps
you are not going to run windows 95 or even windows 3.1 |
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OldComputerGeek
Joined: 20 Sep 2009
Posts: 7
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Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:20 pm |
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"Supposedly it makes Wolf3D on the XT go faster"
Is there such a thing as an ISA slot 3d accelerator? |
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OldComputerGeek
Joined: 20 Sep 2009
Posts: 7
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Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:24 pm |
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| ET4000AX is nice on an ISA 16 bit card as well for VGA. |
How about the ATi VGA Wonder? Can you tell I'm biased? |
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