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Title: The XGI Volari GFX Card - Coming Soon
Post by: Calen on November 14, 2003, 03:56:21 AM

It seems ATI and Nvidia may finally be getting some competition when the new XGI Volari hits the streets. They still have a little way to go on the drivers but all seems quite interesting...

Would be made even more interesting if OS4 drivers where being made for it to.

XGI Homepage (http://www.xgitech.com/products/products.htm)
Tom's Hardware - First Contact (http://www20.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031107/index.html)

Title: Re: The XGI Volari GFX Card - Coming Soon
Post by: Rodney on November 14, 2003, 04:40:02 AM

From what TOM was saying it has a few disadvantages, but im sure every design has disadvantages. I guess its success depends on how cheap the card shall be.

If it's fast and cheap, maybe put it on a microA1 :)?

Title: Re: The XGI Volari GFX Card - Coming Soon
Post by: dammy on November 14, 2003, 06:59:42 AM

IIRC, this is a renamed Trident.  Linux drivers sucked for them, IIRC.

Dammy

Title: Re: The XGI Volari GFX Card - Coming Soon
Post by: carls on November 14, 2003, 11:49:43 AM

What, I should sue them! XGI is the name of Rexx CGI scripts in gW3S :-)

Title: Re: The XGI Volari GFX Card - Coming Soon
Post by: KennyR on November 14, 2003, 12:30:10 PM

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dammy wrote:
IIRC, this is a renamed Trident. Linux drivers sucked for them, IIRC.

If that's true, it ain't much. The Trident itself is a poor board. I have one in my (modern) PC. It's faster than a Permedia 2 - just.

Title: Re: The XGI Volari GFX Card - Coming Soon
Post by: Herewegoagain on November 14, 2003, 01:19:59 PM

Maybe this is why you think it's called Trident...
But that in no way means that it is as bad as the old Trident brand 3D chips (which have been used alot even on recent PC's onboard) that you seem to be discribing.  The XGI chips seems to be an entirely new chip.

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XGI is a leading visual computing and GPU design company. Its core management team is made up from a wide range of industry leading expertise who came from such as SiS (TSE:2363), and Trident (Nasdaq:TRID).

Title: Re: The XGI Volari GFX Card - Coming Soon
Post by: Glaucus on November 14, 2003, 01:29:02 PM

Well if you guys read the review on Tom's Hardware you'd know it's a new company with strong ties with SIS & Trtident. The lower ranking cards are Trident ripoffs, but the higher ranking cards seem to sport a new chipset design, including a dual chipset design (something I'm not aware of Trident doing).

Anyway, unless their drivers can be tweaked to produce more throughput, I don't think these cars are anything to get excited about - unless they're half the price of the ATi/nVidia cards perhaps.

  - Mike

Title: Re: The XGI Volari GFX Card - Coming Soon
Post by: mikeymike on November 15, 2003, 11:42:55 AM

For a first attempt against ATi and NVidia, it's quite good, according to the benchmarks.

The main thing that counts is reasonable drivers.  It doesn't matter how good the card is if there are graphics corruptions or low responsiveness.