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    Elsa Gladiac GeForce 2 GTS Review
    June 2000
    Features

    In all of the newer Elsa cards, lies support for Elsa's Revelator glasses. Although these glasses do not enhance the quality of gaming much, they are a nice feature to have on any card... especially for bragging rights. Aside from that, The Gladiac also has the GeForce2 GPU, which is undoubtedly the fastest 3D processor available right now for us gamers until the Voodoo5 6000 comes along. The price point the GF2 is at right now is too high for all but the hardcore gamers but I think that when Nvidia announces their new chipset, prices will fall dramatically. The Gladiac has 32MB of DDR SGRAM on board and 64MB models will be available soon. Elsa has no plans to release SDRAM models since the Gladiac is such a high performance board and lower bandwidth memory would only drag down speed at high resolutions. High resolution gameplay was what the GF2 was designed to excel at with it's insanely high 1.6gigatexel fillrate. There looks to be support for additional video features on the card such as Video-In and TV Tuners but none are installed on the board I received. The S-Video out port on the GeForce is not really improved over its predecessors and is the same one found on most of today's cards. This is not a good thing because it is low quality TV-out that doesn't really matter since no one I know uses a TV for playing games. What you do want a TV-out for is DVD playback and with the built-in motion compensation of the Gladiac, DVD's will be smooth as every, especially in scenes with a lot of panning.

    Specs

    Specs
    Graphics Controller NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS GPU
    RAMDAC/Pixel Cycle 350 MHz
    Memory 32MB or 64MB DDR RAM
    Bus Systems AGP 2x/4x (including fast writes and execute mode) or PCI
    Standards DPMS, DDC2B, Plug & Play
    Optional Video Module 1x Video-In & 1x Video-Out
    BIOS VESA BIOS 3.0 support
    API Support DirectX 6, DirectX 7, OpenGL
    Internal/Memory Interface Clock 200MHz/166MHz
    Horizontal SYNC Signals 31.5Hz - 108.5Hz
    Vertical Refresh Rate 60Hz - 200Hz
    What is included - ELSA GLADIAC gaming accelerator board
    - Installation CD ROM with on-line users manual
    - Hard-copy installation manual
    - Software drivers for Windows 95 & 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0
    - Windows utilities including ELSA Winman Suite and ELSA Advanced Settings
    - 6 year service warranty
    - Optional GLADIAC video-in and video-out module available on www.shopelsa.com
    - ELSA provides Plug and Play ease-of-installation
    Warranty and Support The ELSA GLADIAC is backed by a 6 year warranty
    Online registration at www.elsa.com/america/welcome.htm
    Technical support - toll free 5 days a week at 800.272.ELSA or Sup-us@elsa.com

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    1. Intro/Fillrate Is King/Memory Is Queen
    2. Power Is What's For Breakfast/Elsa Gladiac Intro
    3. Features/Specs
    4. Installation/Usage
    5. Driver Set & Included Games
    6. Benchmarks/Q3 Demo001 Fastest/Normal
    7. Benchmarks/Q3 Demo001 High Quality/3DMark 2000
    8. Performance Conclusion/Overclocking
    9. Pros & Cons/Conclusion
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    Author: Chris Oh
    Company: Elsa
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