##9GXE64Pro feedback
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Thanks for the info on your #9 board. I am happy to hear that you are pleased
with it. I have heard good things about #9 in the past. Have you been pleased
with the level of support you have gotten from #9? Are their drivers in good
shape for both dos and windows? Have you had any problems with the board…
installation, configuring, 3ds, windows???!
Not to bother you with to many questions, but the video card market seems even
more screwed up now than usual – I just want to make the right decision.
What kind of pc are you running it in?
thanks
dan
ps – anyone else care to comment on this card?
Dan,
I've only had to call #9 tech support once, and they suggested I try the newer
drivers for my Windows problem, and that solved it. (The problem was that
Windows wouldn't hold the 70hz refresh I had set; it kept reverting to 60hz.
New drivers fixed it.) The only other thing is that you need the UNIVBE.ZIP
VESA driver, (here in the forum), to run Flight Simulator 5 at high resolution.
The card comes with VESA 1.02 in the bios, but FS 5 needs VESA 1.2, which
UNIVBE gives you.
I've installed 3 of these cards in our machines, and they've consistently
worked great, and they just popped right in with no problems at all. There
aren't even any jumpers on the card. 4megs gives you true color at 1024×768,
and they even have a utility in Windows that lets you adjust your color balance
to match whatever you want. All three cards are running in Pentium 90's using
Intel's Neptune chipset. Two we built from the ground up, the third is a Dell
our office manager uses. (That's when I had to track down the driver for Flight
Simulator 5.) <g>
I personally recommend it without any reservations whatsoever. No problems at
all switching modes, and once I found out how to set the refresh rates in DOS,
(it was buried in a readme file on the AutoCAD drivers disk), and got the new
Windows drivers, have not had a single problem.
John
Sounds great… your recommendations have been very encouraging.
I have noticed a number of folks showing a preference towards the Intel
Neptune chipset… what's the story there?
thanks again,
dan
Dan,
>> Intel Neptune chipset
This is a set of P90 supporting chips that Intel makes; they are
available to motherboard manufacturers, and Intel also uses them on
their Premiere/Plato motherboard. In its review of P90's in the Sept.
27, 1994 issue of PC Magazine, they said the Neptune chipset
generally out-performed the OPTI chipset, (by OPTI), which is the
other set generally in use.