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    What's good ISA video card?

    That's quickest and has decent size of video ram on card?

    I'm not sure of cirrus logic :P, Trident ditto. This leaves WDC but I'm not sure on speed but this limits to 256K or 512K, Tseng ET4000AX can go to 1MB but this are fetching high price even for ISA cards. I'm stumped. Why?

    Cheers, Wizard
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    Re: What's good ISA video card?

    Originally posted by Wizard View Post
    Tseng ET4000AX can go to 1MB but this are fetching high price even for ISA cards. I'm stumped. Why?
    cause they're pretty much compatible with everything (of that time), have a very good DOS performance and were rather common..

    the biggest memory size i know of would be the ATi Mach64 (with up to 4MB). pretty damn rare though.

    Cirrus Logic CL542x and CL543x based cards are relatively cheap. and still pretty damn quick

    other ones (for dos games.. windows stuff.. not so much):
    Trident TVGA8900CL-C (1MB ; stay away from other models like the 8900CL-B and the TVGA9000's .. those only reach roughly 1/3rd of the 8900CL-C performance)
    ATi Mach32 2MB
    Diamond Speedstar 64 (CL5434 2MB)
    Last edited by Scenic; 04-05-2011, 06:58 PM.

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      Re: What's good ISA video card?

      Can it be VLB, or does it have to be strictly ISA?
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        #4
        Re: What's good ISA video card?

        ISA! Wow...that's like atleast 20years old now!

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          Re: What's good ISA video card?

          ^ i grew up with that stuff..
          started out with a Commodore PC30 III (286 12MHz ; 8Bit ISA only) .. was my mum's PC with DOS 3.3, norton commander, windows 3.0 and my favorite game: Grand Prix Circuit by Accolade
          my first own computer was a 386DX33.. entirely made out of trashpicked parts..
          i loved playing games like Jill of the Jungle and old stuff like that
          Last edited by Scenic; 04-06-2011, 10:27 AM.

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            #6
            Re: What's good ISA video card?

            Originally posted by TheLaw View Post
            ISA! Wow...that's like atleast 20years old now!
            Not really.
            If you have a very fat wallet you can get a socket 478 board with ISA.

            ISA is still common in industrial systems too.
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              Re: What's good ISA video card?

              Oh the joys of the long black socket! How about the old ATI Matrox cards?
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                Re: What's good ISA video card?

                i ratholed a few tseng 6000 isa with 4 mb just for my industrial guys.they are around and cheap but never when someone has a critical machine down.8 bit are a bit tougher to come by.whats the app?

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                  Re: What's good ISA video card?

                  so whatever this system is it dosen't have a free available pci slot? I have an fx 5500 pci. not sure I would be willing to part with it
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