Good card w/ sparse features
Written: Aug 21 '01
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Pros: Price. Bundled software suite. Performance in direct X 8.0 games
Cons: Sparse extra features
Not many direct X 8.0 games
Elsa Driver support
The Bottom Line: Buy it if u dont need VIVO performance. No bells and whistles just a solid design that provides jaw dropping performance.
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| wylin's Full Review: Elsa GLADIAC 920, (64 MB) AGP Video Card |
The Elsa Gladiac 920 is basically a reference geforce 3 design that deviates little from the Nvidia reference board...making it sparse on features such as Video In Video Out (it does have a Video out capability), lack of a DVI connector, and a general lack of uniqueness. But it is a Geforce 3 based card that stays with in Nvidia reference designs meaning it does work well w/ the Nvidia reference drivers and Elsa's own drivers are pretty much the same as the normal Nvidia drivers plus the ability to tweak some of the clock and memory speeds. Software wise it comes w/ a game Giants,software DVD program, and drivers disk.
Performance wise paired w/ my AMD athlon 1.33ghz w/ a VIA KT133A based board and CAS2 PC-133 mememory its been nothing but phenomenal the frame rates on games such as Black and white, Dune, and Max Paine have been excellent it really shines when paired up with games that are designed to use the Transform Lighting Engine. There have been minor problems with certain games like the bundled game Giant and Dune: Emperor which both would crash w/o a patch. It runs relatively cold and didnt increase my overall system temperature when it replaced an ASUS6800 geforce 256 card. DVD play bak is excellent w/ the included player with minimal shuttering nearly rivalling ATI's propreitary DVD software and hardware decoding.
Good card overall i think its only flaw being sparse on features and maybe size its huge might not fit in small cases like mini towers. Like i dont regret using this geforce 3 card and you know it will be backed up by elsa quality...but maybe not driver support their site is using older drivers and it shipps w/ detonator 2 drivers which need to be updated.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 320.00
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