DOS Days

Diamond Stealth III S540 and S542

The Stealth III S540 and Stealth III S542 were released in 1999, and were based on the S3 Savage4 chipset.

Released July 1999
Bus AGP
Chipset S3 Savage4
Standards Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA
Memory 32 MB SDRAM
Ports 15-pin DSUB (video out)
RAMDAC 300 MHz
Part # -
FCC ID -
Price $130
See Also Diamond Speedstar A90

 

Board Revisions

 

Competition

 

In the Media

"The Stealth III arrives with 32MB of 143 MHz SDRAM and an itch to prove the Savage4 Pro chipset's might. On the 2D side, no proof is necessary. We notched up our display to 1920x1200 at 60Hz, thanks to the Stealth III's 300 MHz RAMDAC. And the Stealth III played crisp video using Diamond's bundled Zoran SoftDVD player.

Unfortunately, the Stealth III is an underpowered 3D board. Diamond, however, complements the chipset with strong drivers and the InControl Tools 99 utility, which enables V-sync and fog table features, and customizes gamma, brightness and contrast for each game. Tweaked settings apply only to the game running.

While the Stealth III didn't have the same visual problems in Direct3D games as the Terminator Beast99, it did display the same nasty texture shimmering in OpenGL mode (particularly in Half-Life). Given the visual glitches and generally poor performance from Savage4 boards in OpenGL, it looks like S3's OpenGL ICD still needs a lot of work.

Maximum PC, July 1999

 

Setting it Up


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Operation Manual
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Original Utility Disk
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