basic video card.

prob work great for dos and windows stuff but not gonna be playing halo
guessing 4 or 8mb of ram
probably work with basic 3d games like doom and whatnot

It's Diamond Stealth64 VRAM with S3 968 4MB (2 + 2MB) memory. Nice 1994/95 video card for 486/Pentium.

Does it work? I have a few and all have problems - either don't work at all or show artifacts 🙁

kixs wrote on 2021-02-26, 11:01:

It's Diamond Stealth64 VRAM with S3 968 4MB (2 + 2MB) memory. Nice 1994/95 video card for 486/Pentium.

Does it work? I have a few and all have problems - either don't work at all or show artifacts 🙁

Not sure if it works. I went to pick up four beige towers and he asked if i wanted some other stuff. Walked away with 14 mobos, three video cards tseng et4000, mach 64, and this. Some new in box super socket 7, socket7 boards, socket 3 maybe. Some boards had cpu's pentium overdrive, a 486 dx, i think a amd 100 mhz cpu, k6-400, and a pentium with a gold heat spreader. Haven't got around to testing because of work. I have killer windows 98 machines but stuff this old is out of my realm. I would ultimately like to put a killer dos machine together.

Relative performance benchmarks in DOS:
http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/benchmarks
PCI Video cards benchmark: Electric Boogaloo Edition

868 and 968 has no cga/ega emulation. Both 864 and 964 are. I bought the x64 version to try.

Cheers,

Itsaproblem wrote on 2021-02-26, 11:23:

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Not sure if it works. I went to pick up four beige towers and he asked if i wanted some other stuff. Walked away with 14 mobos, three video cards tseng et4000, mach 64, and this. Some new in box super socket 7, socket7 boards, socket 3 maybe. Some boards had cpu's pentium overdrive, a 486 dx, i think a amd 100 mhz cpu, k6-400, and a pentium with a gold heat spreader. Haven't got around to testing because of work. I have killer windows 98 machines but stuff this old is out of my realm. I would ultimately like to put a killer dos machine together.

Not bad for DOS, although counter-intuitively the DRAM-based 8xx-chips beat their VRAM-based 9xx brethren in DOS; the 9xx are much better in Windows. With 4MB this is a perfectly acceptible Win3.x, 95 and 98 card, suitable for resolutions up to 1024x768 at 24b (16M) colours. Virge theoretically does 3D, but basically don't bother, if you want 3D, get a Voodoo or a better 2D+3D card. I use this card in one of my Cx5x86-100 DOS + Win3.11 systems.

More relevant than performance for DOS:
- S3's VESA SVGA support is up there with the best, on par with nVidia and 3Dfx
- a lot of cheap S3 cards have washed-out VGA output with black looking more like grey. This card is one of the better ones. Expect good picture quality.

although counter-intuitively the DRAM-based 8xx-chips beat their VRAM-based 9xx brethren in DOS

They aren't, at least not on general basis. S3 Trio64? Sure.