Onboard video quality of a PCChip M847-LU?

[Nitemare]

I was thinking about getting this board until I saw that it had no AGP slot. However, all of the reviews I have seen have been fairly positive:

Xabre 200 GPU
-Built-in 256-bit 3D/2D engine
-AGP8X transfer mode
-Build-in 375MHz RAMDAC
-DirectX8.1 compliant, with hardware pixel shader
64MB Display memory
-Eight 4Mx16 bit chips
-200MHz memory clock

anyone actually own one of these or seen them?

 

[Peter]

It has no AGP slot because the onboard Xabre unit occupies the AGP already.

Image quality has been reported to be up to par with similarly specced AGP cards.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Xabre 200 ~= gF2 MX400

- M4H

 

[Peter]

Here http://www.x86-secret.com/popups/articleswindow.php?id=85 is a comparison test about how the onboard Xabre 200 stands against various chipset integrated and on-card solutions.

Essentially it is in the same ballpark as a GF4MX440, Mercenary has been aiming a bit low

 

[nRollo]

Holy crap, you really like to tempt fate.
PCChips- Should be known as "PCSh*T" The crappiest motherboards ever to make it by customs, in a sweatshop in Asia somewhere, some very evil men are laughing. I had a PCChips with the ALi "BXcel" chipset for a bit, I couldn't figure out why my video card benchmarked 25% slower than comparable Intel chipset boards. So I bought an Intel chipset board, put the same cpu/cards/memory/drives on it, voila, there's my 25%. I had some motherboard driver issues too.

Xabre- "Piece of SIS" The worst drivers known to video kingdom, by far. My last experience with them: The Savage 2000 in my Diamond Viper. Half the time when I would boot up, there would be holes of no display in my desktop. Game textures would be corrupted, or missing altogether.

So I'm thinking you've got a winner there with the SIS/PCChips combo. We'll be seeing LOTS of posts from you "UT2003 has flashing textures!", "When I boot up, it tells me I'm missing my OS!" etc..

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: Peter
Here http://www.x86-secret.com/popups/articleswindow.php?id=85 is a comparison test about how the onboard Xabre 200 stands against various chipset integrated and on-card solutions.

Essentially it is in the same ballpark as a GF4MX440, Mercenary has been aiming a bit low

I've owned a regular Xabre 400 (much faster than a Xabre 200) and it's performance was good but it's image quality was rubbish compared to my GF4 MX440. I then increased the IQ settings for the Xabre so it delivered the same IQ as my GF4 MX440 and the Xabre's performance was rubbish.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Peter
Here http://www.x86-secret.com/popups/articleswindow.php?id=85 is a comparison test about how the onboard Xabre 200 stands against various chipset integrated and on-card solutions.

Essentially it is in the same ballpark as a GF4MX440, Mercenary has been aiming a bit low

Since I'd never used an integrated one, I ballparked the standalone at gF4 MX level and then took into account the shared-memory choking performance. Either way, an nForce2 is a much better choice.

- M4H

 

[Peter]

... blatantly missing the fact that the ONBOARD Xabre 200 has its own RAM, unlike chipset INTEGRATED solutions that don't.

 

[Peter]

Originally posted by: Rollo
Holy crap, you really like to tempt fate.
PCChips- Should be known as "PCSh*T" The crappiest motherboards ever to make it by customs, in a sweatshop in Asia somewhere, some very evil men are laughing. I had a PCChips with the ALi "BXcel" chipset for a bit, I couldn't figure out why my video card benchmarked 25% slower than comparable Intel chipset boards. So I bought an Intel chipset board, put the same cpu/cards/memory/drives on it, voila, there's my 25%. I had some motherboard driver issues too.

Xabre- "Piece of SIS" The worst drivers known to video kingdom, by far. My last experience with them: The Savage 2000 in my Diamond Viper. Half the time when I would boot up, there would be holes of no display in my desktop. Game textures would be corrupted, or missing altogether.

So I'm thinking you've got a winner there with the SIS/PCChips combo. We'll be seeing LOTS of posts from you "UT2003 has flashing textures!", "When I boot up, it tells me I'm missing my OS!" etc..

Never saw so much bull in one place.

Yes the ALi chipset was slow - even on ASUS boards. Known fact. Nothing to do with PC-Chips at all. Your point?
Savage 2000 is an S3 chip not an SiS. Your point?
PC-Chips is the OEM outlet of Elitegroup, second largest mainboard maker in the world, the only one among the top five who are growing currently. Certainly not because their large volume customers are all unhappy with product quality.

Before you come back, at least have a look at the facts before you're trying to twist them to match your religion.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Peter
... blatantly missing the fact that the ONBOARD Xabre 200 has its own RAM, unlike chipset INTEGRATED solutions that don't.

:Q

/me = 0wn3d

- M4H