S3 Graphics Dual Chrome S27 3DMark2005 Results

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:45 am

We got a chance to look at a VIA K8T900 Reference motherboard powered by an AMD Athlon X2 4600+, 1GB DDR400 Kingston HyperX memory, and dual graphics card that were S3 Chrome S27 PCI Express graphics cards. The core on the S3 Graphics Chrome S27 is rated at 700MHz.

In a standard run of 3DMark 2005 this system scored 6653 3DMarks the first time we ran it and 6632 the second time. Not bad for the VIA chipset and the S3 S27 graphics cards. It you notice the cards don't need a bridge (nVidia) to run in dual card mode and no dongle is need either (ATI). Not bad and easier to run versus ATI's or nVidia's dual card solutions.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:52 am

That's not bad at all, but what's the price point of this sort of fun..............

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:59 am

think $130 for the cards (each of course)

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:09 am

That's not all that bad really. Hows the image quality????

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:29 am

Apoptosis wrote:think $130 for the cards (each of course)

Thats a super price....you could build a cheap system with that and an easy / cheap upgrade down the line....

There is also great 2D performance with the S3...Doesn't it have hardware HD decoding?