Stealth III S540 Xtreme and SpeedStar A90 Ship

Stealth III S540 Xtreme and SpeedStar A90 Ship puts another piece of PC gear into the September hardware pile, and 1999 is not exactly short on that right now.

shipment of the company’s newest value-priced graphics accelerators: the Stealth III S540 Xtreme and SpeedStar A90. Powered by S3 Incorporated’s Savage4 accelerators, the Stealth III S540 Xtreme features stunning 3D gaming and DVD performance with 32MB of memory for $99.00 (estimated retail price based on a $30.00 rebate), while the SpeedStar A90 graphics accelerator offers a lower-cost, feature-rich graphics solution for system integrators and OEM’s. Delivering high-performance for graphics intensive business and computer gaming applications, Diamond’s Stealth III S540 Xtreme is equipped with 128-bit processing, 166Mhz memory and 160Mhz.

The hardware race is getting mean, and the upside is simple: gamers keep getting faster, stranger toys to bolt into their rigs.