Elsa Gladiac Ultra: A Perfect Graphics Card?

A Barely Affordable Gamer's Dream Solution

However, everybody should check his real requirements before making the decision to buy a frame rate monster. A reasonably equipped PC consists of a decent CPU (600+ MHz), 128 MB main memory, a fast hard drive and usually a 32 MB graphics card. That's basically enough to handle the majority of common applications and games. 'Serious' gamers are not interested in such ordinary systems though. Latest action games and 3D shooters need pure power - the more, the better. Particularly high screen resolutions and highly detailed scenes will make the standard system look like an old and ugly bird. Elsa's Gladiac Ultra is confidently titled as "World's Fastest Gamer's Board". Of course we wanted to know what's behind this claim; so we checked if this product is actually worth its money.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.