Via's S4 Nitro card, Voodoo dual Opteron make showing

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By Charlie Demerjian: Wednesday 12 May 2004, 16:20

AT THE PRE-E3 parties, there was a lot to see, and it was of much more interest than the workers setting up the booths. At one of the pre-event events, Via had a booth, and the one thing that was of immediate interest was the S4 Nitro graphics card. This is an early spin of the four pipe card. No specs as of yet, and although they called it an early version with a lot of work left to do, it was running Serious Sam 2 without a hitch. No artefacts, no problems, it just ran. If you are more interested in the game, it looks pretty damn good.

The next major stop was the Voodoo PC booth, and they had 2 things that were of interest, the Eden and the Hexx. The Eden is a dual Opteron computer in one of the massive Zalman fan free cases. This is one impressive looking case, heavy, big and black. The Hexx is a new stab at case design, not a SFF, more of a squat tower.

It will take any standard mobo, and is aimed at the SFF set, but it is a bit large to be SFF in my opinion. For a small tower, it is nice.

More info and pics in: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15868
 
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