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Re: MetroX vs. AccelX question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony Martin)
Wed Nov 6 16:56:53 1996
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 13:54:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Anthony Martin <amartin@engr.csulb.edu>
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Daniel M. Drucker wrote:
>
> Just a question -- I've got a Matrox MGA 4mb 220Mhz DAC Millenium,
> and a Nokia 447X 17" monitor.
>
> Which will give me "better" performance in 1280x1024...
> Metro-X 3.1.2 or Accel-X 1.2? (I realize that's the old version of Accel-X.)
Probably Accel-X will give you better performance, but even more important
is the fact that Accel-X will let you run TrueColor at 1280x1024 w/4MB and
MetroX will only let you run at 16bpp. (Accel-X supports 24bpp TrueColor,
but MetroX only supports 32bpp TrueColor).
Tony.
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