ELSA Winner 1000 Trio
ELSA's first consumer graphics card for the PC was the Winner 1000 Trio, launched in 1994.
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Released | 1994 |
| Bus | PCI | |
| Chipset | S3 Trio64 (86C764) | |
| Standards | VGA | |
| Memory | 1 MB or 2 MB DRAM (32-bit) | |
| RAMDAC | (Embedded, 135 MHz) | |
| Ports | 15-pin DSUB (analogue RGB video out) | |
| Part # | EMA004TS02A1 | |
| FCC IDs | JDF-764PCI-001 | |
| Price | At launch: $ |
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The ELSA Trio64 copied the S3 reference design of the Trio64 almost exactly, as did most other graphics cards manufacturers that employed S3's new 64-bit graphics accelerator chip in 1994.
The Trio64 was S3's first shot at combining a RAMDAC, clock generator and the 2D graphics engine from the earlier Vision864 chip into a single ASIC. Despite the Trio64 itself supporting PCI and VLB buses, as well as up to 4 MB of DRAM, ELSA chose to limit their use to just the PCI bus and a maximum of 2 MB of RAM.
1 MB variants have the top two RAM locations empty. None of the RAM is socketed, so upgrading 1 MB card to 2 MB would require soldering.
Board Revisions
One board revision is known for the ELSA Trio64: A1.
Competition
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Setting it Up
I have no information on setting up the Trio64 card.
Downloads
S3 Trio64 reference drivers will likely work just fine with this card.
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