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Article #806Re: anand - savage4 pro is a low-end card
From: tlai Tony Lai
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 00:00
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well there you have it. Thanks to anand it seems the 32Mb Savage 4 Pro (Diamond SIII 540) is a low-end type card for those who stick to 640 or 800 at 30 or so FPS. And it tops out at ~ pII350 speeds. Basically zero scalability due to the low clock speeds (125Mhz stnd. - 143Mhz pro). Unfortunately superceded processors provide more juice than even the S-4 Pro can handle (I use a 464Mhz c300a) It does not satisfy cpu's available yesterday!!! (tnt2/v3 are in the 175-200Mhz range for comparison) No performance over 800x600. Nuff said there. Us big monitor owners like some 1,024 action. On the good side it experiences 10% performance drop in 32-bit colour over 16-bit. But again, 10% drop over crap frame rates is still crap; just more of it. Again I have no compelling reason to upgrade V2SLI. Roll on Savage 5... T.
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