Need your input on a video card...

[Nitemare]

No one is home in the video forum, so I'm asking here..

What does everyone think of the video cards with the SIS 315..specifically the 128 MB ones..

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FEATURES:
Powered By AGP 4x SIS 315 256-bit Graphics Architecture
Suppport 32MB Display Frame Buffer Up To 1280 * 1024 Resolution
Integrated Transform And Lighting 3D Engine
Built-in 24-bit true-color RAMDAC up to 366MHz pixel clock
DVI Compliant support Digital LCD optional
NTSC/PAL TV output support optional
Motion compensation for full speed DVD playback
Support Win9x, WinNT, Windows 2000 with Direct3D and OpenGL ICD

3D FEATURES
Built-in a high performance 256-bit 3D Graphic engine
Supports 10M polygon/sec @ 1 pixel/polygon with Gouraud shaded
point-sampled, linear and bilinear texture mapping
Supports Peak fill rate of 333M pixels/sec, 333M texture/sec @ 10K pixel/polygon
with Gouraud shaded and two bilinear textured, Z buffered and alpha blended
Built-in 32-bit floating point format VLIW
Geometry transform & Lighting engine
- Object space to screen space transform
- Supports back face culling
- Supports up to 10 active light soures, including point, spot, specular and fog
- Supports hardware view volume clipping
- Two side Lighting
- Primary and Secondary color merging

INDUSTRY LEADING DVD PLAYBACK
Supports motion compensation, sub-picture overlay blending and both horizontal and vertical interpolation for video scaling
Process full-frame rate, full-screen DVD or MPEG-2 video - even on basic PCs
Built-in DVD playback saves the expense of buying a separate MPEG-2 / DVD decoder card

RESOLUTION
640x480 - 8/16/32 bit - 60,72,75,85,100,120,160,200
800x600 - 8/16/32 bit - 56,60,72,75,85,100,120,160
1024x768 - 8/16/32 bit - 43,60,70,75,85,100,120
1280x1024 - 8/16/32 bit - 43,60,75,85
1600x1200 - 8/16/32 bit - 60,65,70,75,85
1920x1440 - 8/16/32 bit - 60

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Pentium 4 / Celeron / III / II, AMD K6/Athlon or compatible with AGP 2X or AGP 2X/4X universal slot
Installation software requires CD-ROM Drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive on PCs with an Intel Pentium II processor (or equivalent) and 32MB of system memory >>

 

[Deeko]

Never heard of it...the 256 bit part is intriguing but its slow, only 366 mpixels/second and one texture unit. Like a TNT2 or Voodoo3 or thereabouts

 

[GasX]

Go buy a used Radeon DDR or Geforce2 GTS in the ForSale Forum. More bang for the buck by far.

 

[oLLie]

How much does it run for? Funny you should ask... I have a GF2Ultra FS :Q (quick little self-plug)

 

[Adul]

not all that at all. You money is better spent on a radeon 7200 or 7500. There was a review somewhere.

 

[Nitemare]

They go for between 50 and 60 bucks. I think they are trying to compete against the mx400's and around there.

I'm not deciding on anything just yet..i know everyone has an nvidia or an ati chipset board, but this was a first for me coming across anything except the kyrol. The kyrol did not have a t&l, so that ruled them out. Plus I know the sis 735 chipset(motherboard) is one of the fastest out there. I thought maybe they could duplicate it in the video cards. I saw one review on Tom's for this in the 32 MB.

 

[RSI]

<< not all that at all. You money is better spent on a radeon 7200 or 7500. There was a review somewhere. >>

LMAO. Beautiful. Nice one, Adul.

-RSI