RE: DAC glitch test (was: Graphics card for PCl)

["gary" <gsellani@accesscom.com>]

The glitches are easily visible with the Nokia Ntest on my Elsa GeForce 2.
Making the gradient in photoshop is a bit better test.

You still can't make me a Matrox customer unless they pay me. Never again.
;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scan@leben.com [mailto:owner-scan@leben.com]On Behalf Of
> Paul D. DeRocco
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:57 AM
> To: scan@leben.com
> Subject: DAC glitch test (was: Graphics card for PCl)
>
>
> I'd like to hear reports from everyone on whether their video card DAC has
> glitches. My Matrox doesn't; my old Number Nine did. This is easy to test
> for: use Photoshop or other image editing program to create a
> gradient fill
> that goes from full black on the left to white on the right. If
> the DAC has
> glitches, you'll see faint vertical lines here and there in the
> gradient, at
> the points where the DAC goes through it's major transitions (e.g., from
> 01111111 to 10000000). This is the sort of thing that isn't
> usually reported
> in published tests, but it's pretty important.
>
> --
>
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com
>

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