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Diamond SpeedStar A50

The SpeedStar A50 arrived in 1998 as a budget card - it was mostly bundled into PC compatibles by OEMs.

Released 1998
Bus AGP 2x
Chipset SiS 6326
Standards Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA
Memory 8 MB SDRAM
Ports 15-pin DSUB (video out)
26-pin VGA Feature connector
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This card supported MPEG-1 (Video-CD) hardware acceleration, and DirectX 5. The core clock ran at 100 MHz and had a memory bandwidth of 800 MB/second.

 

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Setting it Up


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Operation Manual
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Original Utility Disk
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VGA BIOS ROM
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