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Xabre Graphics Card Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the first-fun-to-read-graphics-card-review dept.

Daniel Rutter writes: "Graphics cards using the SIS Xabre chipset don't seem to have quite made it to the retail market in most of the world yet, but they're on sale now here in Australia. I've checked out Triplex's shiny XabrePRO card. It's weird. Not just because it's silver, in typical Triplex fashion. It's also got weird drivers. Not bad drivers. Just... weird. And it makes a weird noise. Seriously." Check out those screenshots, and wonder.

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  1. Bad pun alert! Bad pun alert! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So is the noise they make just Xabre rattling?

  2. Slashdotted Already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not posted 10 minutes and its already slashdotted.

  3. My favorite part by SpamJunkie · · Score: 3, Funny

    My favorite part is the "About Xabre"... legend. Is this even marketing? Some of the best parts:

    "For 500 years, demons tyrannized the world of human vision with omnipresent control. The demons competed among themselves, and the winner set the rules for domineering the world of human vision while human beings paid a high price for their enjoyment."

    500 years? Very creative description of the current (and fairly recent) video card market. Then the story borrows heavily from the sword in the stone myth:

    "Xabre entered the forest of visual fantasy bordering the land of the demons, where he discovered the 8X8 twin sword."

    Those screenshot are weird, but this story of a graphics processor that is a 500-year old mysterious night is truly bizarre.

    1. Re:My favorite part by Stonehand · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe SiS marketing was smokin' the same crack that caused them to pair up with a company named "Triplex" -- say the three-syllable pronunciation for that name, instead of the two-syllable one they probably intended.

      Hm. A demon-slaying knight who creates a visual paradise and partners with *cough* Triplex *cough* I wonder what sort of visual feast was intended, really.

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  4. Re:Quick! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You obviously haven't met my girlfriend... she's a very weird driver.

  5. Re:whats so wired about it? by tetro · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know why it's weird, when i tried setting up the resolution, it had "High Quality Porn" as a setting

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  6. that was a scare by neo8750 · · Score: 2, Funny
    at first i thought

    The eight memory chips (there are another four on the back of the card) are all Etron Technology EM658160TS- 3.3s.

    read: The eight memory chips (there are another four on the back of the card) are all Enron Technology EM658160TS- 3.3s.

  7. Curse of AOTC ... by tjwhaynes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perfect, Nvidia's drivers aren't. About as good as you can get, they are.

    Reviewer like Yoda speak, yes? Graphics chip reviews inverted sentences need like head with hole ... hmmm?

    Cheers,

    Toby Haynes

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  8. Eh. I'll wait. by NickRob · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think I'll wait until the ideas in This article about the future of video cards come to munition.

  9. Re:Driver GUI by foonf · · Score: 3, Funny


    I'd like to have a simple interface and an explanation of what does what coupled with a high-performance graphics card.


    Then you should switch to linux. The vi interface is extremely simple, and its all you need to configure XFree86.
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