Tseng ET4000 PCI: A VGA Card With Major Flaws!

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The Tseng ET4000 is typically available for the ISA bus, but this particular example is for the PCI bus. I recently found this card at the scrapyard and wondered how well it would perform in DOS and Windows. I really should have left it there. You'll understand why once you watch the video.

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▬▬▬▬ Timestamps ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 Three VGA cards
04:06 PCBWay
05:00 3Dfx Diamond Monster 3D
09:40 S3 Virge/DX
11:17 Tseng ET4000 Memory Swap
13:36 Tseng ET4000 Flaws Uncovered
16:06 Tseng ET4000 Testing in DOS
18:22 Tseng ET4000 Testing in Windows
19:39 Diamond Monster 3D Testing
20:23 Last Try: TSENG ET4000
21:09 Summary