Rio Diamond Stealth III S540, (32 MB) AGP Video Card

Pros: Cheap, 32MB video RAM, decent video performance
Cons: Awful drivers, lockups

I bought my StealthIII from www.pcprogress.com for less than $75. I felt this was a good deal and made since for me since all I have ever had before was an 8MB Matrox Millennium II PCI card which has no real 3D ability.

I picked this card...

Pros: Inexpensive, Easy To Use And Install
Cons: Slight Prob With Explorer Crash

Even after all the bad things you hear about this Diamond Stealth III S540 32MB AGP Video Card, there are a few people out there that actually have good luck with it. I recently bought this card brand new from a local retailer and it only cost a shade...

Pros: Quality for the price
Cons: A little slow on high framed games

The Diamond Stealth III Graphix Card is the best graphics card out there for $100 or less. It proviedes the most power and clarity out of all the generic and namebrand products. Dual compatibly with ATP-G games and those that need a 405 mbps / cycle...

Pros: supposed to be a good mid range graphics accelerator
Cons: locks up frequently on some systems

Now in the days of heavy graphical games and other software I found myself needing to upgrade my video card to accommodate these vast changes.

After reading some online reviews and determining what my computer would handle, I decided upon the...

Pros: They work OK with character based programs
Cons: Any other aspect of the card

I have owned and hated many generations of these cards. I keep hoping they will get better, but they continue to disappoint me. Out of several dozens of colleagues, I only know of one that likes these things -- and he spends several hours mucking about...

Pros: Reasonable price, and good performance
Cons: Not a high end video card.

I needed a video card which would support at least Direct 3D, with at least 800x600 resolution, and won't cost too much money. I looked around, checked out different cards, starting from krappy Cougar ending with ATI Rage and 3D Prophet. So, why did I...

Pros: average card
Cons: incompatible with BeOS and Corel Linux, drivers are not Microsoft certified.

I am not really much of a gamer, nor do I intend to become one. So when I built a system to replace my old one, I didn't really feel I needed to spend the money on a 300 dollar video card with an nVidia GeForce chipset. What I found was a 50 dollar...

Pros: Easy to follow instructions, Easy to install drivers
Cons: Will not work as advertised. Performs at the same level as much lower-end graphics accelerators

Diamond makes great modems, sound cards, and networking cards. I use all three between office and home PCs and would recommend them to anyone. I was always very happy with their products until I needed to upgrade my video card. Because of my past...

Pros: great price to performance ratio
Cons: none if you're an average computer user

When you purchase budget items, you can almost always count on having to spend more money later. What kind of savings does that really get you? None!
I wanted a new graphics card, with some of the newer features, without spending a fortune. The...

Pros: goo
Cons: s3

S3's past has been there downfall as the chipsets has been far from convincing because of errors and failures that have popped up in many of there products and that there is many criticism of there reliablity however this card is pretty good for games...

Pros: cheap, good brand, best S4 clockspeed
Cons: getting a bit old now

The Savage 4 chipset has been pushed hard by Diamond particularly since S3 and Diamond merged, with S3 making the Savage 4 chipset it is obvious that they would stick with this. Diamond have released 2 cards with the Savage 4 chipset, the Diamond Stealth...

Pros: Affordable, easy to install, good 3D support.
Cons: Some games haven't been supporting it.

Before receiving the Stealth III card, I was running an old 4MB video card. Now I see what I was missing! The Diamond Stealth has given me greater detail, and allows me hardware acceleration options. The 32MB of ram certainly help out the situation also....

Pros: 32 megs of ram compared to 16, cheap price
Cons: slow, overheats, can't handle what it claims

Well all I can say from my past experience from this card is that to stay away. Don't let the 32 megs of ram fool you, this card is far from being the best. They say that the card can handle much more than it is capable of. The processor runs a lot...

Pros: The Price Is Appealing
Cons: The Product Is Disappointing

I purchased the Stealth III s540 with hopeful expectations. Naturally,I did not expect it to out perform the TNT2 and Voodoo3 cards.Being my budget would not allow for a "graphics animal", I decided the s540's price was right where I needed it...

Pros: Price, fully optimized direct 3d support, Can support OpenGL.
Cons: Buggy in-box drivers, No OpenGL support yet. Not for gamers.

Hi everyone,
I had purchased this card in November, thinking that it's the only PCI card with 32mb. Well, when I installed the card all of my games would crash and nothing seemed to work. However, Don't return this card if you have this problem....