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Old 05-30-2008, 08:00 AM
phoronix phoronix is offline
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Default S3 Graphics Releases The Chrome 440 GTX

Phoronix: S3 Graphics Releases The Chrome 440 GTX

VIA has been on a rampage this week with new release announcements from the OpenBook reference design to the Nano processor. Their latest announcement is coming out of S3 Graphics, which is a VIA Technologies company...

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Old 05-30-2008, 08:27 AM
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It's an interesting card and good to have some competition in the low-end market, however it does not work at all with ASUS motherboards that have the SplashTop feature...
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Old 06-05-2008, 01:44 PM
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I think that they would grow pretty well in the lowend laptop market that asus and the OLPC created. The only problem is that you need low cost software to keep the prices down and their hardware isn't really linux compatible...
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