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HW suggestions/Stealth?

    01-Nov-94 17:02:19
Sb: HW suggestions/Stealth?
Fm: Chris Barnes 71201,1112
To: All
I know this gets asked every week or so, but I couldn't find anything here recently about…hardware. I about to sink some money into a Pentium to do MM development using Director. I also plan to continue doing graphic design and occasional 3DS/AniPro work. I want to find a video card that can perform well in Windows using SW such as Corel, Photoshop, Quark etc. as well as perform well in Dos with 3DS. I have heard good things off and on about the Diamond Stealth card and thought I might try the 2 Mb VRAM PCI version. Any problems concerns with the implementation of PCI? Might I regret having only 2 MB instead of 4MB…to date I have done one ambitious animation and a bunch of small bits, but nothing that (I think) justifies the 4 Mb. The rest the system I'm looking to put together would be 90MHz cpu, 540 and 340 Mb HDrives, 17" NI monitor, 2x CDROM, 44 Syquest (I already have this, otherwise I'd get a bigger one!), 16 Mb RAM (for the moment), and a tape backup. Any major ommissions here for 3DS work? It's been a while since I've used it or have been on this forum, so I thought I'd check with people here to get the latest thoughts on the matter.