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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:45:03 -0600
From: Andrey Mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] best supported vga card?
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Steve Kotsopoulos wrote:

> given that only mach64 and S3 Virge based cards currently support
> acceleration and more than 8-bit depth, which is the best card for
> the money today? I want at least 1280x1024x16 with acceleration.
>
> I've seen 8Meg Xpert 98 cards for $55.

ATI Xpert@Work 8meg works fine at 1280x1024x24... Acceleration seems to
be good and the speed is at least 2x the non-accelerated one.