Chrome 430 GT...uuhhhh yeah!!

Chrome 430 is going to take over the world. Ok, maybe not but nice job S3



https://s3gstore.s3graphics.com/

ape LOVES chrome.

^ Priceless.

Haha, did you get 60+ FPS in chess too? JK. If I was building an everyday rig, I would totally throw a chrome in there just to support the underdog players.

I am not making fun of it at all. I am glad to see S3 come out with something new that can grab some attention.

listed as $59.95... seems decent.

There she is.


http://diy.yesky.com/syscore/351/559851d_5.shtml

No dual GPU mode for these puppies

Its out of stock on their site, that ought to tell you something. People are obviously buying them.

They're still looking for AIB partners for a spring launch. Right now it's still their reference engineering samples/design.

The 400 series will be the mid range, they will have higher ranges and low ranges (can't get too much lower but they will have them supposedly) coming out later.

Based on past numbers I suspect the higher range cards are going to be 600 series, and the low end either 300 (most likely) or 200.

Remember main thing for the chrome series is very light gaming and heavy HD video work. These will be mainly for OEMs wanting more than integrated has to offer. I suspect we'll see a few HPs, ACER, eMachines, and such with these. I don't suspect we'll see Dell at first as they usually wait on stuff like this unfortunately.

As unimpressive as the scores may be this is still the meatiest segment of the market the low-entry level multimedia/'gamer' cards (ie those who look to meet min system requirements for games) and if they get even 2-5% of sales they'd be making a ton more money than they, SIS, Matrox and Ageia's PhysX made last year combined.

I don't expect them to cause huge waves in the enthusiast community, but I sure am happy to see another player, I just wish it were Matrox though.

What makes you say that?

Their release specifically mention multi-chrome.

So how well dose the 430 rank up against the AMD 780G integrated?

Thats not bad considering the price. It beats the 8400 and 3400 so I'd say we might see some competition if they go main and high end.

MultiChrome

I highly doubt that.

They're back?!

Rodney/Spinach - This is gonna make my old Battlechess machine rock!

um...has anybody seen my old battlechess computer? whitebox 386/DX20, 256MB,40GBIDE, 2xcdrom....should be around here somewhere.....

Edit

Found it, it was under the dustbunny pile in the corner - putting it back before they wake up and kill us all

That would be interesting to see since it is running on the 64-Bit interface. They are targeting HD playback more so than gaming though.

Yeah, but in all seriousness, it is nice to see another competitor come into the market. Competition breeds innovation. Sure, it isn't much to say you can beat a 8400, but at the price point they list it is pretty good. Plus, who know where these could lead to. If Nvidia and ATI actually have to worry about these, they may be forced to make their "budget" cards a little better.

Yeah this was their D2 product, considered their midrange and the D3 being the performance end. The D3 was to come out a quarter after the D2, so likely that's also been pushed back a bit. The problem IMO is by the time it comes out it may be giving us below HD3850-3650/GF9600-GF8600 performance and at that time be going against even newer competitors.

Here's the old roadmap from last year;
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2 [...] nf2kp5.jpg

The only problem with the roadmap is that the D series products were supposed to be DX10.0 only, and the XE products DX10.1, so I wonder if they didn't decide to blend the generations due to delays.

Anywhoo, there was talk of a higher end product later, but I doubt it will be the Enthusiast segment versus something more mid-range. I see no benefit to VIA/S3 to compete with the R700 & G100/T200, and find it unlikely they'll even match an RV770 or even RV670/G92 once they finally arrive. Which is why I hope their DX10/10.1 implementation brings some novel efficiencies to the table just to make things more interesting.

Not everyone needs an 8800 GPU in their system. For $60, it looks like a great HTPC card. As TheGreatGrapeApe mentioned, I can see OEM's using this in the HTPC's such as HP's Media Center line.

They're heeeeeeeeeeeere.......ssshhhh

https://s3gstore.s3graphics.com/

wonder how much of these will move just cos of the nostagia factor? (and I'd count me in on that)

in multi chrome, excellent!

Hey maybe if Nintendo uses Chrome for whatever they dish out after Wii? (Wii+i?)!

maybe not

multi-chrome ftw!

I wouldn't buy one for $60. It beat a 34xx, and a 8400GS. The 3650/2600XT is currently at $60, and I have yet to see this card beat them. Unless it can out perform the other cards at its price point, I wouldn't bother with it.