I have a Diamond Viper II S220 that currently resides in my wife's machine.
I ran this card for a while with no troubles.  It has 4MB of RAM, and seemed
a bit ahead of the curve with 3D affects for it's time.  I thought it had
the Nvidia TNT chipset in it, but I couldn't swear to it.

My main machine now has a Diamond Viper V550 with 16MB RAM.  This definitely
has the TNT chipset, and it is an awsome card.  I have a friend who bought
one of the Diamond cards with the S3 chipset and 32MB RAM.  She never could
get the thing to work in her system (she has a homebuilt system, and I don't
remember the actual components).  She ended up returning it and getting one
with the TNT chipset.

I would definitely stick with the TNT chipset.  The S3 isn't necessarily a
bad chipset, but in my opinion the TNT chipset is a much superior product.

Kyle Elmblade
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From: "Alan Priol" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 8:05 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Diamond VIPER11 card


> I have an option of two Diamond VIPER11 video cards, one uses S3 2000
> drivers and the other Nvidia TNT2 drivers. Which would be the better buy?
>
> Alan Priol.

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