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Diamond Stealth III S540

Description: Model ID 90030869 / Diamond Stealth III S540 - Graphics adapter - S3 Savage4 Pro+ - PCI - 32 MB SDRAM - retail / Diamond's Stealth III S540 ... more

Diamond Stealth III S540 ... ushers in a new era in PC gaming! Integrating state-of-the-art 3D quality features and S3TC texture compression, Stealth III delivers extreme realism to the hottest 3D games, even in high resolutions. Based on the S3 Savage4 Pro+ chipset, the new Stealth III is a complete solution, powering colorful 2D business applications with lightning-fast speed and accelerating cinema-quality video. By far, Stealth III is the ultimate graphics value.

Newest Review: ... did me for 6 months but then I needed something beefier and picked up a 16Mb AGP Stealth III S540 from a computer fair. For ... more

... starters my initial reaction was "Oh my God!" when I first started playing games with it. This was because of it's sheer quality. I used to jerk around in Half Life badly but when I put this card in it used to fly. I was incredibly impressed, especially when the card I got was cheap at 35-00 not long after it's release. The good thing about buying a card from a top manufacturer like Diamond is that you get top quality support and service and this is what I found. Regular driver updates were available...more

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Diamond Stealth III S540: Best of the Savage 4 bunch (421 words)
by CyrixDes - written on 07/12/00 (Very useful, 1634 readings)
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The Savage 4 chipset has been pushed hard by Diamond particularly since S3 and Diamond merged, with S3 making the Savage 4 chipset it is obvious that they would stick with this. Diamond have released 2 cards with the Savage 4 chipset, the Diamond Stealth III S540 (the card i'm reviewing now) and the Diamond Stealth III S540 Xtreme. The difference being that the standard S540 was using the Savage 4 chipset and the Xtreme uses the Savage 4 Pro+ chipset which is significantly quicker. Anyway onto the review: I upgraded my computer about 2 years ago now and went from my old 486 machine upto a Cyrix MII-300. Obviously I needed a new graphics card and ended up ...

Stealthy, or not very healthy? (325 words)
by Tapper2000 - written on 17/11/00 (Very useful, 620 readings)
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I recently got me mittens on this card, and i was excited about using it.The specs make you think ooooooooooooooo sexy card, 32mb, 4x agp..wow! So i zoomed home from collage and ripped open my computer, took out me trusty 4mb ATI rage pro and eagerly slotted the card in. All looked well at first..butttt first, the initial drivers werent that good and the game i was testing it out on (quake3) didnt work properly, some graphics were missing. I then found a recent magazine cover cd and updated the drivers.This sorted out the problem and i was very pleased with the results. 1024x768 and 32bit colour and all graphics at the highest setting, and the game ran like a dream! ...

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Technical Details for Diamond Stealth III S540

Product Description	Diamond Stealth III S540 - graphics adapter - Savage4 Pro+ - 32 MB
Device Type	Graphics adapter
Enclosure Type	Plug-in card
Interface Type	PCI
Localisation	English
Graphics Processor / Vendor	S3 Savage4 Pro+
2D/3D Graphics Support	S3 Savage4 Pro+
Video Memory Installed ( Max )	32 MB / 32 MB (max) - SDRAM
Video Output	1920 x 1440 24-bit (16.7 million colours)
Max Monitors Supported	1
Compliant Standards	Plug and Play
Package Type	Retail
System Requirements	Microsoft Windows 95/98, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or later