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SIS Xabre 400 review

Pathetic.

With those specs I would have expected it to give half decent performance, not "good three years ago" performance.
 
Yikes, the Xabre gets completely barn raped. :Q

The GeF4 MX440 was able to nicely beat out the Xabre, and the MX440 costs like $75-80? Xabre would have to be half the price for me even to be remotely interested. In addition, the Xabre crashed in a game or two, supposedly due to driver issues.

Not a good showing so far, but we'll see what Xabre can do when it's a little more mature...
 
Indeed, quite disappointing so far. However, I'm not going to completely ignore it due to its current performance. Everyone was disappointed with the ATI Radeon when it was first released, and now it is a very fast card. So I say, give it some time, and a few months down the road, it just might surprise us.

Russell "Mr.Bios" Sampson
 
eh, low end video. for another $20 over the 440 you can get a radeon 8500 or LE or whichever at newegg. screw MX4.
 
Too bad really, hopefully things will improve.

That card looks real cool though, not enough for me to buy it, but cool nontheless.
 
I'd buy this in one form only - imbedded into the SiS chipset to get it for "free" with a motherboard purchase. 😉
THAT I wouldn't complain about....
 
Originally posted by: bluemax
I'd buy this in one form only - imbedded into the SiS chipset to get it for "free" with a motherboard purchase. 😉
THAT I wouldn't complain about....
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Ageed 😀

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
Another problem with the Xabre is it's AGP support. The card supports AGP 8X and while no motherboards currently support AGP 8X, there seems to be a compatibility problem with VIA and nForce chipsets. On these two particular chipsets, the Xabre can only run in 2X modes and SiS blames it on the bugs on these chipsets rather than its card.
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That's more than a little rich, IMO especially considering:
As we mentioned earlier, this is an Engineering sample of the card and it did come with it's fair-share of problems. First of all, we could not get the card to work on the Iwill P4R533 motherboard which is an Intel 850E chipset board. However, the board did work on the SiS 645DX chipset reference board which is what we use to benchmark all the graphics cards. Even on this board we suffered quite a few crashes and we'll detail them through the benchmarks we conducted.
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I won't deny that VIA certainly has a buggy chipset 😀 😀 😀, but I have yet to hear of any 1.5V agp card the nforce is incapable of running.

Then there is the performance issue. Buggy drivers or not, the Xabre 400 is clocked at 250/500 while the M4 440 is clocked at 270/200. with the memory bus @500mhz, this card should be way outperforming the MX440, especially where fillrate matters.

Greg
 
I hope they can get those drivers "up to speed". [drum fill]

In all seriousness, this card really has some VERY nice features! If they can gte it to work 100% properly and optimize its speed, we could be seeling numbers 50% higher or more. That, and keep the price very low, they could have a real winner.

I'd like to consider this card better than an MX-200, but while it's still faster it tends to crash more.
But hey, the original GeForce and original Radeon all had driver issues when they were brand new.... it's just growing pains.
But I can't wait to see this kind of performance imbedded! That's well over double the video performance of the nForce, if I'm correct.

Of course, nVidia is working on faster nForces too.... let's hope they can get costs as cheap as SiS can put out! 🙂
 
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