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on the Card
The
Xabre400 comes in a relatively small package as
a card. It has 4 memory chips on the front and
4 at the back giving it a total of 64MB of memory,
rated at 4ns. The GPU is cooled by a heatsink/fan.
Noticeable on the card is the presence of jumpers.
These jumpers are meant to set the AGP mode of
the video card. While there is an auto-detect
function, it still might be needed for motherboards
that could only run on AGP2X; then again, those
are already phased out motherboards. For testing
purposes, the card was only ran at AGP8X mode
since this is what the card was designed to run
at.
Visual
Quality and Game Compatibility
2D
image quality on the Xabre400 was on the same
level as that of the GeForce4 MX cards. At a desktop
resolution of 1280X1024, the text still remained
clear. In 3D applications, the Xabre400 produced
noticeably lower quality images compared to the
GeForce4 MX. Serious Sam 2 previously had problems
with the Xabre400 but the driver updates fixed
it but still, the visual quality leaves something
to be desired. In other games and benchmarks,
the Xabre400 did very well and the output was
very good.
As
for game compatibility, the Xabre400 did not experience
any problems or issues with all the benchmarks
or games tested such as Quake III, Jedi Knight,
Serious Sam 2, Commanche4, and 3DMark2001SE.
Overclocking
SiS
includes their own overclocking tool in the drivers
of the Xabre400. Unfortunately, the video card
would not overclock for more than a few MHz, thus
performance gains were close to zero. Once the
clock speeds were bumped up to about 10MHz~15MHz
more, visual artifacts would start appearing thus
signifying an unstable overclock.
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