Xabre 400 revisited
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on June 11, 2002 at 3:12:13 PM
Hard revisits the SiS Xabre 400.
As for these new drivers, they have helped in performance in certain areas. OpenGL shows some nice improvements depending on the game. Direct3D has shown a slight improvement as well. Still I feel they could be ironed out a bit more, especially if we had some tweaking options with D3D and OGL control panels. I honestly do think the Xabre can be a GeForce4 MX killer. It definitely has the potential on paper. But with current hardware and software problems it is difficult to recommend it to anyone right now. Future support with this card will definitely be better then the GF4 MX simply because of the pixel shader support. If SiS can fix these major problems with newer drivers then the Xabre 400 just may be that GF4 MX killer.
As for these new drivers, they have helped in performance in certain areas. OpenGL shows some nice improvements depending on the game. Direct3D has shown a slight improvement as well. Still I feel they could be ironed out a bit more, especially if we had some tweaking options with D3D and OGL control panels. I honestly do think the Xabre can be a GeForce4 MX killer. It definitely has the potential on paper. But with current hardware and software problems it is difficult to recommend it to anyone right now. Future support with this card will definitely be better then the GF4 MX simply because of the pixel shader support. If SiS can fix these major problems with newer drivers then the Xabre 400 just may be that GF4 MX killer.