Recent content by slaterat

Seems to me that the Volare V 3 , is a refresh of the xabre 600. The V 5 and the V 8 are based on the Xabre II. SiS said way back in Feb?, on their xabre roadmap that the xabre II would come in two flavours, one with 4 pipes and one with 8 pipes. What is surprising is the dual chip config...

Does open GL use the harware T&L on crrent generation videocards? Or does the cpu handle thses calculations?

SIS Personally I think a lot of troubles with MBs result from low quality board manufacturers. I would never recommend or buy a low quality mb, it is the foundation of your system.Typically my MBs last me through two rounds of upgrades. Initial cpu and videocard and then replacements. My...

As far as chipsets go SIS has been very successful imo. They have delivered low cost chipsets with top line features and excellent performance and stability. I believe someone on this forum stated the SIS has delivered what VIA promised, I am in total agreement with this. As far as the Xabre...

Has anyone tried an xabre based video card out? I'm interested in it as an alternative to a Geforce mx card. The game I spend most of my time playing, WW IIO , is upgrading to direct x 8.1 and implementing support for hardware T&L. Its time to move up from my old but solid voodoo 4. ATI...

3DFX I have to agree with Rip. I'm still using my voodoo 4. It runs all the games I play just fine. The main game I play is WW IIO and get equivelent frames , sometimes slightly more or less , than then similar systems running any geforce mx or geforce 2. I've never been a bleeding edger, I...