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Just FYI, the S3 based cards should NOT suffer the same bottle-neck that TIGA and 8514 cards suffer. With those type of cards you tend to operate either in the accelerated mode, or in a standard VGA mode via a Pass through type operation. From the way I understand things one of the big advantages of the S3 chip is that it merges the best features of a VGA with direct memory addressing and all that, and a card with on-board smarts like a TMS34020 or 8514 clone. It would appear to give you the best of both worlds, co-processing capability without the slowdown normally seen for non-co-processed functions like writing directly to memory.