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I picked one up for 37$, it comes with composite video,S-video, 3D glasses jack, 64mb 4ns SDRAM, memory/core clock 183mhz. It came in yesterday and I put it in my 2nd rig, a K7S5A, to replace a G2 MX200 and ran it with a 700Duron while waiting for the 1ghz Duron I ordered. Anyways, it did great at DVD playback and QuakeIII but was horrid while playing MOH, UT, RTCW, even Halflife!!! I couldn't even see down the street to snipe or anything in MOH :frown: So I tweaked and tweaked and downloaded the newest AGP driver for my board and the latest 315 drivers for the card and it still cheesed :disgust: By now I'm thinking what a tool I am for buying a glorified DVD decoder with the addition of good QIII performance. Then, today the 1ghz Duron comes in, so I drop it in and fire the FSB up to 110 so it's running 1.1ghz@ default voltage and(you may have guessed what comes next already) BAM! all the games are great now!!! 
It's like night and day! So now it looks as though it's another graphics card that needs a faster CPU to take off Now I have an ECS solution as the backbone of my second rig and I'm stoked with the price/performance ratio that it's providing If you had asked me 6months ago what the odds were I'd build a system without the big players hardware in the system, I'd have said"less than zero!", man have times changed quickly. I appologize for rambling on about my cheap ECS stuff but I'm just impressed so much that I wanted to say something so that people will know there's a good,dirt cheap card from SiS finally :Q BTW, here's a review that helped me decide to try it Link
It's like night and day! So now it looks as though it's another graphics card that needs a faster CPU to take off Now I have an ECS solution as the backbone of my second rig and I'm stoked with the price/performance ratio that it's providing If you had asked me 6months ago what the odds were I'd build a system without the big players hardware in the system, I'd have said"less than zero!", man have times changed quickly. I appologize for rambling on about my cheap ECS stuff but I'm just impressed so much that I wanted to say something so that people will know there's a good,dirt cheap card from SiS finally :Q BTW, here's a review that helped me decide to try it Link
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