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The
Elsa Gloria II Quadro SDR
Professional
Graphic Solutions for High-End 3D
Applications
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May
26, 2000 -
By John
"Tool" Fiegener
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| Installation
/ Setup With the Elsa
Gloria II Quadro |
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free driver installation |
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I have had Elsa products in the past and
set up is usually one of the
easiest that I have performed. The
Quadro was no exception. I
inserted the card and placed the CD in
and the setup does all the work. The
drivers loaded and the machine rebooted
with out hesitation or the request for
the NT disc. Elsa drivers are clean and
hassle free. At start up Elsa places a
small icon for easy access to the
display setup for customization. Here's
a look at the Elsa display settings. |
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The 350
MHz RAMDAC support display resolution up
to 2048 x 1536 pixels at 85 Hz in 3D
TrueColor. This is one of the nicest
resolutions that I have seen. Although
at 2048 x 1536 pixels it feels like you
need magnifying glass to see the
desktop. I usually use a setting of 1280
x 1024, true color on my 21"
monitors and that seems pretty
comfortable.
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color control tab allows the user to
adjust and save the gamma settings. I
generally stuck with the default
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This is
the Elsa application setting tab. If
you're running Pro/E or Solidworks you
may want to investigate some the
settings that are optimized for the
different applications. I saw little
difference in testing when I set the
application settings to either Pro/E or
Solidworks. I actually felt that the
default setting seemed to perform the
best.
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This is the
Elsa Info tab. I actually find this to
be a nice addition that eliminates the
need for a separate CPU info utility
such as WCPUID. This tab gives all the
states on the CPU, Graphics and Direct
X. Direct X is unsupported in Windows NT
put is supported in Windows 2000
Workstation.
Lets
get down to the Benchmarks
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