re which high performance vlb video card in article hcbfp e zola esd sgi com blean rwb esd sgi com bob blean writes someone in this group posted a little while back that they were getting an orchid v card has that card arrived what do the benchmarks look like the one i got only does about kb s in text and x vga mcga mode which is almost identical to the other w based cards ati does about kb s this is weird since the orchid supposedly should be much faster and i was told by someone that it can do almost kb s since the vga chip is covered by the orchid label i can t really tell for sure if it uses a chip but the spec sheet that comes with the board no docs did say it has meg dram and uses a chip winmarks is about mil slower than a viper vs using standard palette btw if anyone is insterested i m trying to sell a diamond viper megs vram for a friend for email if interested i m too broke to take it myself also is the ami p based card real what does it use for vga speed i think it s available in limited quantites no idea of what vga chip it uses though be very careful with oem p boards though the orchid i got for example only has a readme file on disk that serve as documentation and conflicts the hell with my vlb controller card or maybe it s my motherboard an a i r vlb stephen lau elec engineering univ of hawaii using a friend s account while waiting for my new grad account death to fm synthesis go gus
