diamond products boycot diamond video cards stealth viper speedstar etc may have excellent specifications and the windows drivers that come with them might make windows blindingly fast but if you re considering buying a system with a view to using it to run unix linux bsd etc or some other special software there is a good chance that it will not work with the diamond cards this is due to diamond s propriety attitude to it s hardware it s impossible to get free information from them about their chips specifically their dot clocks without paying and signing non disclosure agreements this made it impossible for the free software foundation to provide x windows compatibility with these cards as diamond didn t want to divulge programming neccessities as far as i know only diamond has this propriety on it s info mark
