This post is about the SiS Xabre 400 review

Hi Mr. Lars and everybody,

You forgot to talk about the turbo texture mode that helps the Xabre card.
It’s enabled in your review because multitexturing is at 1700 MTexel/s, disabled and it's about 500 MTexels/s.
When you disable the turbo mode, you gain quality and loose speed.
The turbo texture mode isn’t up to par with ATi or nVidia quality.
You need to disable it with a register key: SiS.3D.TexTurboMode then you set it to 0.
Then the quality is up to par but you’ll lose about every benchmark.

There's a good article about it at <A HREF="http://www.hardware.fr" target="_new">http://www.hardware.fr</A> but it's french... here's the link: <A HREF="http://www.hardware.fr/art/lire/433/" target="_new">http://www.hardware.fr/art/lire/433/</A> and here's the page about the turbo mode: <A HREF="http://www.hardware.fr/art/lire/433/5/" target="_new">http://www.hardware.fr/art/lire/433/5/</A>

Thanks everyone,
Simon

Oh, BTW, if you don't understand french, click on the last link and look at the pictures, your eyes will understand.

I agree with you! I have read the article at www.hardware.fr and it is clearly stated that the Xabre is not that good!

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Would you buy a GPS enabled soap bar?

The editors don't read the forums. You'll probably have to email them.

Finally, I get a capitalized title!! WOOT!!

I tried to contact the person who wrote the review as well without getting a reply.

You know, it's a funny trend that's going on. These days, reviewers are like living advertisements. Companies qho send their products to well-known web sites or reviewers are, in effect, advertising their products. Hardware users crave information, and the reviews fulfill that craving. Hardware folks adore that information enough that sometimes they will be satisfied reading BS information that they simply like to hear, even when it's not the truth. It's exactly what commercials on TV do for other people. Remember your siblings or friends who would watch a commercial on TV and immediately say that they wanted to buy the product in question? It's exactly like that. Even following the crap around the GA-7VRXP if you go to Gigabyte's web site you'll see the GA-7VRXP is still winning awards, months after its conception, months after the bug was found. It's ridiculous. Do these guys even review anymore?

I wonder how many people's computers are going to blow up due to forgetting to put in <A HREF="http://www.dansdata.com/burning.htm" target="_new">the right water</A> in their Innovatek Water Cooling kit. Right after Tom's did the article on it, orders flew in immediately and Sharka Corp, Frozen CPU, and many others all went out of stock. What percent of those orders do you think are going to end up with a busted mainboard, messed up water blocks due to corrosion, and melted CPU cores? What else did Tom's Hardware recommend in this review? They said "Don't Use CPU Thermal Paste--the water block is lapped enough that you don't need it." Anybody care to disagree?

Maybe they need a break. In the recent Computex and Siggraph articles it's obvious Omid Rahmat isn't getting enough sleep.

Here's <A HREF="http://www.gamingin3d.com/reviews/8500/" target="_new">another review</A> to ponder. Is this the kind of review you read to make a <i>purchasing</i> decision?

1° of separation between my monopoly and yours. That's business with .NET<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by cakecake on 08/10/02 11:22 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Ooo, they are so lazy that they don't even write regularly at THG.
Does anybody remember when the last "Tom's Monday Blurb" was and what it's topic was, mmm?
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