Diamond Stealth III S540

by William Henning
Editor, CPUReview
Copyright September 9, 1999
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Another S540 Review?

The Diamond Stealth III S540 is Diamonds budged Savage 4 Pro+ based AGP 3D video card.

This is not a very expensive video card (<$110US); but it does come equipped with a full 32Mb of SDRAM.

As usual, I tried to get a good feel for the performance of the Stealth III S540. I ran a number of popular benchmarks, whose results are reported later in this review. Please note, these are the same benchmarks I've been running for my other video card reviews, so you can compare the results shown in the different reviews on my site.

Unlike many other video cards, I am happy to report that I had NO problems with AGP support or "hanging" with the S540. It worked correctly right out of the box. It also overclocked surprisingly well...

System Description - Super 7

• Soyo 5EHM motherboard (MVP3, AGP, 1M cache, Super7)
• AMD K6-2 400 @ 400Mhz
• 64Mb 10ns SDRAM (Hyundai, 2x32Mb sticks)
• 6.4Gb Quantum ST hard drive
• Pioneer 6x DVD-Rom
• Diamond Stealth III S540 Savage 4 Pro+ (AGP, 32Mb SDRAM)
• Windows 98 SE
• Diamond driver v2.004
• S3 reference driver v2.11
• DirectX 6.1

Benchmark Programs

• Turok demo
• Forsaken demo
• Incoming demo
• Final Reality benchmark

NEXT: Stealth III Features

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