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If I were you, I'd come up with a good dos/vesa benchmark and then get somebody to run it on an S3 928 board for you. If you are happy with your ATI GUP, then I think you will be happy with a 928. The 928's vga modes are not that slow and use the VRAM on the board unlike the ATI's SVGA part which uses the separate DRAM on that board and cannot use the VRAM that is there for the Mach32. Just to give you a data point, my NDI S3 805 VLB board gets a 3DBench (320x200x256 benchmark) of 43.4 (I think that number is frames/sec). It is dependant on cpu speed too, but slower SVGA's impact it alot. The fastest score I've seen is about 51. Both my machine and the one that got 51 were DX2/66's. I think the one with the 51 had a VLB ET4000 card.