Diamond Stealth III Video Card

by Diamond

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00000JBBF
• Item model number: 90030861
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #427,494 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

A New Era in Gaming Graphics! Diamond's Stealth III S540 ushers in a new era in PC gaming! Integrating state of -the-art 3D quality features including 128-bit processing, AGP 4X support, a 32-bit 3D rendering pipeline and massive texture processing, Stealth III delivers extreme realism to the hottest 3D games, even in high resolutions. The new Stealth III is a complete solution, powering colorful 2D business applications with lightning-fast speed and accelerating TV-quality DVD software. By far, Stealth III is the ultimate graphics value.

From the Manufacturer

Stealth III S540 S3 Savage4 Pro, 128-bit, 2D/3D video adapter with 32-MB high-speed memory.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Buy this Card! (Sorry Amazon, just my opinion!), February 26, 2000

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Dustin Spaulding (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diamond Stealth III Video Card (Personal Computers)

Anyone out there who is looking for a card that performs even decently well, don't buy THIS one, please! It BITES! You can't get diddly for frame rates in any games that don't support Direct3D, and it's OpenGL support is apparently non-existent. I can't help but feel bad saying this because these fine people here at Amazon are trying to sell it, but I feel like I have to warn you. I bought this card for $69 OEM, and it's scarcely worth half that. Most 8MB video cards perform better than this one. If you are looking for a dirt-cheap video card, you can do a lot better than the Stealth. Possibly a Voodoo2 1000.(The V2 1000 with 12MB of graphics memory performs better than the Stealth with 32MB! ) But if you can afford it, buy a Voodoo3 3000. BUT PLEASE, don't buy a Stealth. You'll never forgive yourself if you do.

(Edit - 17 Oct 2008)
It's been almost 9 years since I bought this doggone card. I'm 26 years old now (I wrote the original review when I was 18... can you tell?) and I still kick myself in the arse whenever I read this review. I still can't believe I bought this dern thing. There were people left and right telling me not to. Ah, but I was a kid and didn't have much money. I eventually replaced it with a Voodoo3 that I had to save for months to buy.
This card still stinks... 9 years later. If you find one for 5 bucks on eBay... DON'T BUY IT! Go get a latte at Starbucks!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What they didn't tell you, January 2, 2000

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D. Stoddard - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diamond Stealth III Video Card (Personal Computers)

I purchased this card, mainly for price and lack of research. I plugged it in. It does do well for video, for high resolution display, but it cannot deal with 2D games. It butcherizes them...I mean bad. In fact, one game would't play untill I went back to the old 4mb Vcard. The games it did poorly with were Axis and Allies,and Army Men 2. My son won't let me put it back. Anyone want this card cheap? When you upgrade card it shouldn't fail on older software.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Keep looking, December 23, 1999

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Dan (Redmond, Washington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Diamond Stealth III Video Card (Personal Computers)

If you care about video performance, keep on looking. This card is not gonna be the best for today's advanced games. Go with a Voodoo3 or a TNT2, those will keep you "up-to-date" for a while.