Bit-tech has a review of an XGI based budget card at http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/05/03/club3d_volari_v3xt/1.html
It looks very similar to what the first generation OGC will be like. Half-height, DVI, VGA, composite, S-video, 250 MHz, two fragment pipes, except that it has a vertex shader which we won't have (it's not very useful anyway IMHO, anything requiring vertex shaders won't run on a card like this anyway). 128 MB of memory as well. It's supposed to do hardware MPEG-2 and deinterlacing as well, but the 9200 SE outperforms it in DVD playback, and according to the review DVD playback was unwatchable. And of course, when you're playing WMV or DivX MPEG-2 acceleration is not that much use anyway. So, in summary, it looks pretty similar to what OGC will look like hardware-wise, but it has more features. On the other hand, the OGC will actually work :). Comments? Lourens
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