Reviews
The Elsa Gladiac Ultra It sure is fast...but you'll pay for it! By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta - November 14, 2000 Anyone who remotely follows the PC hardware scene has no doubt become familiar with nVidia and their very aggressive product cycles. Ever since the Riva 128 was released, nVidia has consistently and...
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Elsa Gladiac 920 Video Card More GeForce 3 Action! By, Jeff Bouton October 11, 2001 When it comes to graphics cards, there is no arguing that ELSA is among the industry leaders. For over 20 years they have been producing top quality graphics cards, as well as other computer peripherals geared toward both the commercial...
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Elsa's Erazor III & Revelator 3D Eye Glasses ! A Dynamic Duo! (Benchmarks) Well, needless to say, we did put the Erazor III through its paces. Overall we expected to see a bit of a hit in various framerates due to the Erazor III's lower clock frequencies. What we...
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Elsa's Erazor III & Revelator 3D Eye Glasses ! A Dynamic Duo! Click for larger image What's better than a hot new TNT2 based AGP card? How about a TNT2 based AGP video card bundled with 3D Stereo Eye Glasses? We recently received Elsa's new Erazor III TNT2, 32MB AGP card and it came with a nice surprise, The...
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Elsa's Erazor X - GeForce & Revelator 3D Shutter Glasses Breaking out from the "me too" crowd. Now that NVidia GeForce based cards are beginning to flow more freely, the race is beginning to blur a little with many vendors producing "me too" products based solely on the NVidia reference design. This is a look...
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The Elsa Erazor X2 GeForce DDR Double Data Rate Fun Over the past few months NVidia clearly has taken the lead in the 3D graphics race. First we saw the release of GeForce based card from various vendors like Creative, Asus, Guillemot, Leadtek and of course Elsa. The second round of GeForce based cards were designed the way the...
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Matrox has been in the Graphics Card business since the invention of electricity. OK, so maybe that's a little overstated but when it comes to PC Graphics, Matrox is the "Grand Daddy". They have always been known for high end accelerators built with the Computer Professional in mind. CAD and other Desktop Graphics Applications...
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The Matrox Millennium G450 - 32MB Dual Head New Levels Of Integration for the Multimedia Fanatic and Corporate User By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 9/5/00 As technology moves on, new markets are exploding for Personal Computing. The Business and Corporate Sector was the dawn of the information and computing age and it is still a very...
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Gigabyte's GA-GF2560 SDR GeForce Get overclocked and ready to rock! So, you are thinking, "great another GeForce SDR Graphics Card review". On the surface, your aversion to mundane and "been there, done that" type of products and their respective reviews, could be well founded. HOWEVER, not this time...
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A Tale of Two TNT2s The Gigabyte GA660 Turbo Vrs. The MSI 3DAGPhantom We brought in the wreckin' crew for this event. Like a Demolition Team with a bad attitude, we decided to mix up a couple of explosive substances and see what kind of reaction we would get. This is a "Bake...
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The GA-GF2000 GF256 GTS 32MB DDR Super stable and Super Fast, Gigabyte Does it right... By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta 8/21/00 As more and more companies diversify their product lines to offer motherboards and video cards, many similar products will begin to hit store shelves. Companies like Asus, Abit and Gigabyte have...
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The Gigabyte GV-GF3000 64MB GeForce 3 Prepare Yourself... By, Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta May 15, 2001 With the impending release of any new product, there is an inevitable barrage of spin and marketing hype surrounding it. When nVidia officially unveiled the GeForce 3, the "spin-miesters" really went to work, as almost every...
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The Gainward GeForce3 Power Pack !!! Golden Sample Tastefully Selected GeForce3 Goodness By Dave Altavilla 9/10/01 GeForce3 cards are in total abundance these days. As an OEM, to compete in this space and get more than your fair share of the market, one must differentiate. With the...
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The VisionTek XTasy Titanium Series Line-up Taking Graphics to the Next Level By - Jeff Bouton November 1, 2001 Just in time to compete with the long awaited new Radeon's from ATI, nVidia has release their latest version of the popular GeForce GPU's named "Titanium." By now, it is fairly obvious that when it comes to competition,...
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Dueling DVD New Video2000 Results From The Majors In Graphics The Online Hardware Review Media community has a solid focus on 3D Graphics performance and technology as a whole. This goes without saying. Too often the Digital Video Subsystem of a particular graphics card goes...
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The Cadillac of Voodoo3! The 3dfx Voodoo3-3500TV In every market, whether you are selling Cars, Tupper-Ware, or 3D Video Cards, there is always a place for the high end. These types of products have all the bells and whistles and are tweaked, buffed and tuned for ultimate performance. This review is about the "Cadillac" of Voodoo3...
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The 3dfx Voodoo 5 Run Down A discussion with Alf Covey of 3dfx A transcript of the HotHardware Forum Section By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 4/19/00 We are now officially in count down mode with the imminent release and launch of the 3dfx Voodoo 5, in a matter of weeks. Over the past three weeks, the HotHardware forum...
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The 3dfx Voodootv 200 PCI Not just 3D Anymore... By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta 10/24/00 Since their inception, 3dfx has been known as a leading manufacturer of high end 3D chipsets. From the beginning the Voodoo name was synonymous with gaming and has been a dominant brand at retail. They are arguably responsible for the entire PC...
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The Visiontek GeForce3 Powered by NVIDIA and made in the USA By Dave Altavilla 5/24/2001 "Board Stuffing", that's what the industry affectionately calls what the folks at Visiontek do as their core business unit. Otherwise known as "Contract Manufacturing", in a nut shell, Visiontek will take a customer's "Bill...
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The SGI 1600SW Flat Panel LCD Finally, a Multi-Media and Gaming ready LCD By Dave Altavilla 8/3/01 Flat Panel technology is still far from perfect, at least in this Tech Journalist's eyes. Then again, so is CRT technology. I guess we're a bit spoiled here at HotHardware. ...
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The Siluro GF256 GTS 64MB DDR More highly "over-clockable" hardware from Abit By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 8/9/00 The GeForce 2 market is what one would call "saturated". There are more flavors and brands of nVidia product available than you can shake a stick at. A new entry into this over indulged...
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The VisionTek XTasy Everything 5564 Personal Cinema A Cheap Date With Multi-Media By - Dave Altavilla November 19, 2001 Convergence, that's what the multi-media scene is all about. In addition to conjuring up printed documents, spreadsheets, charts and graphs, the modern personal...
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