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The
Elsa Erazor X2 GeForce DDR
Double Data
Rate Fun
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| Our
Test System |
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P3 with an attitude... |
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Full
Tower ATX Case w/ 300W PS, Pentium3-500E (Provided
By OutsideLoop
Computers)
overclocked to 750MHz., Tyan Trinity 400 VIA
Apollo Pro 133A Motherboard, 128MB of EMS PC133
HSDRAM, WD 18G 7200RPM DMA66 Hard Drive, Elsa
Erazor X2 GeForce256 DDR ,
Sound
Blaster Live value, Kenwood
72X CDROM, Win 98SE, DirectX7, NVidia Refernce
Drivers Build 3.68
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| Benchmarks |
| Unreal
Tournament and MadOnion's Video
2000 |
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we saw in our Hot
Hardware Video 2000 based shoot out, entitled
"Dueling DVDs", the GeForce is a
formidable opponent in the area of digital video
playback. Here are the scores for the Erazor
X2 that were garnered in this test.
Click
for full view
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| Good
quality, decent support of DVD playback features
and what you don't see here, is the excellent low
CPU utilization. Check
the round-up for a comparison vrs. the rest of
the pack. The Erazor X2 stands
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We
figured we would change up some of the D3D
benchmarks for this review. The following
are a few numbers for the Erazor X2 running
in 32 bit color with Unreal Tournament's Flyby
Timedemo.
It
still amazes me how inefficient the Unreal engine
is. This game is the essence of the
stereotypical CPU Hog! There must be a few
more polygons that the CPU has to push in Unreal
Tournament because the numbers you see here are
obviously at a different level vrs. the Quake 3
numbers. In any event, a GeForce DDR card
like the Erazor X2 will give you the
best 32 bit color scores money can buy, at this
point in time. ( Feb. '00)
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All
things considered, the Elsa Erazor X2 is
a well rounded 3D card with excellent DVD and 2D
features. The desktop image quality is the
best we've seen with a GeForce card. The 3D
performance is excellent as well. On the
other hand, this may not be the card of choice for
hard core over clocking types. There is
little headroom in clock frequencies, from our
experiences, with this card.
Regardless,
Elsa brings you a solid product with the Erazor X2
and throws in a nice game demo bundle to
boot. We give the Elsa Erazor X2 a Hot
Hardware Heat Meter Rating of....
-Davo
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To
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