Not specifically branded so I'll just put this card under the 'Tseng Labs' category.
The ET4000AX is a great performer and has good compatibility. > Read more
A late Tseng Labs ET4000AX. The other cards I have are dated 1992 or 1993. By the time this card came out the Vesa Local Bus cards were already widely available and the first PCI-cards started to pop up as well. > Read more
A decent looking and feeling Tseng Labs ET4000AX-based graphics card. The card feels somewhat sturdier and is more compact compared to a lot of ET4000AX clones. Diamond did a good job designing this card!
FCC ID is FTUSPEEDD.
The Tseng Labs ET4000AX has a respectable status regarding ISA-based VGA cards. It's performance is unmatched by other ISA-cards. To see how far the Tseng Labs ET4000AX can go I installed the card into a S478 motherboard (which has one ISA slot!) together with a Pentium 4 2GHz 'Northwood'. A blazing fast CPU compared to the ISA-card from the early 90'ies .
System | Doom | Quake | SVGABench | Syschk | Vidspeed L |
Pentium 4 2GHz with 8MB 845G IGP | 156.25 FPS | 227.4 FPS | No Support | 85454 | 24165 |
Pentium 4 2GHz with Diamond SpeedSTAR24 | 36.43 FPS | 78.9 FPS | 15.1 | 52416 | 3825 |
Pentium 100 with Diamond SpeedSTAR24 | 32.06 FPS | 22.50 FPS | 10.6 | 42345 | 3788 |
I'm not sure what brand this card is, thus I've put it under the Tseng Labs flag. It doesn't give much information apart from a GCC ID 'ILLTS4HV'.
Basically this is a good performing ET4000AX-based card from 1993. > Read more
Another general ET4000AX card. Not much information except that this card has a 'Super VGA' sticker on the chip.
Note that this card uses 80NS RAM chips. I have other ET4000AX-based cards that are equipped with 70NS RAM chips. One of them is the Diamond SpeedSTAR24 which is faster. > Read more
This 16-bit ISA card was one of the fastest around in it's days. Due to a fast host-interface it could transfer data between the ISA bus and the video chip pretty fast.
I pulled this particular card from an AMD Am386DX/33 system and today it's sitting in my 20MHz 286. In combination with the 386DX it was able to run Doom at a fairly good frame-rate. I've seen many 486SX/25MHz configurations that ran twice as slow! Often a good balance between CPU and video chip is important when playing games, even today. > Read more