Hi Vetz,
Thanks for the advice.
In your experience do you really find the performance comparable?
There is a trio 64 new up on ebay just now, the memory for these cards are a little bit slower though ranging around the 70ns mark. The Tseng's from what I gather seem to frequent 45ns memory, not all of them... but some.
Me and Artex have benched on two different CPUs using the same type of board. Both the S3 Vision 864 and the ET4000/W32p gave the same performance (some minor differences as to expect). See this thread on Vogons for benchmark:
http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=39134&start=200#p363339
I dunno about the Trio64 VLB cards, I haven't tested them. My ET4000/W32p card has 45ns memory and my S3 Vision use 50ns. The 864 is the same as the 964 just with 170mhz RAMDAC compared to 220MHZ RAMDAC. 868/968 is the same the 864/964 series just with added hardware accleration for video in Windows. Basically for DOS gaming usage they are the same. The Number Nine cards were high-end cards targeted for AUTOCAD and desktop publishing back in 94/95, so they are great choices. The ET4000/W32p mainly got its reputation as delivering highend performance in gaming without the higher pricetag (the 968 cards sold for 700-800 dollars in 1995). Ofc they could not compete in Windows applications.