Diamond SpeedStar A50

The SpeedStar A50 arrived in 1998 as a budget card - it was mostly bundled into PC compatibles by OEMs.

	Released	1998
	Bus	AGP 1x / AGP 2x
	Chipset	SiS 6326
	RAMDAC	(Embedded, 200 MHz)
	Standards	Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA
	Memory	4 or 8 MB SDRAM
	Ports	15-pin DSUB (video out) 26-pin VGA Feature connector
	Part #
	FCC ID
	Price	July 1999: $49
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The SpeedStar A50 supported the following screen resolutions and refresh rates:

Resolution	Depth	56Hz	60Hz	65Hz	70Hz	72Hz	75Hz	85Hz	100Hz	120Hz	160Hz	200Hz
640 x 480	256	-	Y	-	-	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
	64K	-	Y	-	-	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
	16.7m	-	Y	-	-	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
800 x 600	256	Y	Y	-	-	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	-
	64K	Y	Y	-	-	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	-
	16.7m	Y	Y	-	-	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	-
1024 X 768	256	-	Y	-	Y	-	Y	Y	Y	Y	-	-
	64K	-	Y	-	Y	-	Y	Y	Y	Y	-	-
	16.7m	-	Y	-	Y	-	Y	Y	Y	Y	-	-
1280 X 1024	256	-	Y	-	-	-	Y	-	-	-	-	-
	64K	-	Y	-	-	-	Y	-	-	-	-	-
	16.7m	-	Y	-	-	-	Y*	-	-	-	-	-
1600 X 1200	256	-	Y	Y	Y	-	Y	-	-	-	-	-
	64K	-	Y	Y*	Y*	-	Y*	-	-	-	-	-

* Requires 8 MB

The A50 was fully DirectX 6.0 and OpenGL-compatible under Windows 95/98.

This card supported MPEG-1 (Video-CD) hardware acceleration, and DirectX 5. The core clock ran at 100 MHz and had a memory bandwidth of 800 MB/second.

 

Board Revisions

I have no board revision information for the SpeedStar A50.

 

Competition

 

In the Media

 

Setting it Up

Please refer to the user manual on how to setup the SpeedStar A50.

Downloads

User Manual SpeedStar A50 user manual

Original Driver CD Version 1.01 Includes drivers for Windows 9x and NT 4.0, and also DirectX 6.0. Thanks to RitchCraft for providing this ISO image!

VGA BIOS ROM (missing) Get in touch if you can provide this missing item!

 

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