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New Graphics Company, With Working Cards

Posted by timothy on from the clever-of-them-to-have-actual-cards dept.

gladbach writes "Toms Hardware has in their hands an actual working card, unlike other vaporware cardmakers *cough* bitboys *cough*... To quote Toms: 'A new player dares enters the graphics card market that ATi and Nvidia have dominated for so long. XGI (eXtreme Graphics Innovation), based in Taiwan of course, comes at the market leaders with a line of cards for a whole lot less money. We look at XGI's product range, and offer results of a beta model from XGIs top model Volari Duo V8 Ultra.'"

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  1. Anyone Else notice... by Ceadda · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The logo for their cards looks just like an nvidia logo, tilted sideways a few degrees, with a blue top, and the Cingular wireless guy stamped on the bottom in red? They couldnt even come up with their own logo so they borrowed from everyone else? This says a lot for their business model...

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  2. Trident? by Cyno · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If this is Trident X11 support is going to suck for these cards. I have a Trident CyberBlade in my laptop that sucks ass. Avoid these unless you only use Windows.

  3. Re:Games as entertainment brings teenagers. by RichardX · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    I'd like to think of myself as an intelligent teenager. After all, one more year to go until you can't even call me that anymore.

    When you turn fourteen you're getting a lobotomy?

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  4. Re:Aren't you forgetting someone? by Sj0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    S3 has never had a good card. Ever. If you think they did, it's because you hadn't used another card at the time. They all suck, are cheap, are worthless, and have bad drivers.

    Let's sum up, shall we?

    Pre-3d cards:Sucked, cheap, worthless.
    ViRGE:Sucked, cheap, worthless, bad drivers,ugly rendering.
    ViRGE DX:Sucked, cheap, worthless, bad drivers, ugly rendering.
    ViRGE GX:Sucked, cheap, worthless, bad drivers, ugly rendering.
    ViRGE DX/2,GX/2:Sucked, cheap, worthless, bad drivers, ugly rendering.
    Trio GX2/DX2:Sucked, cheap, worthless, bad drivers, ugly rendering.
    Savage3D:Sucked, cheap, worthless, bad drivers.
    Savage4:Sucked, cheap, worthless, bad drivers.
    Savage2000:Sucked, cheap, worthless, bad drivers, useless T&L.

    Any questions?

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