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Sharky Extreme : August 20, 2008





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As you'd expect from Diamond, their Viper V550 drivers ran without any faults/bugs/errors during my extensive tests. Windows applications such as MS Word, Excel and Internet Explorer all ran at all resolutions without any glitches whatsoever- which was refreshing (pun intended). Obviously for those of you with 19 inches of joy (not the digital love-sausage version) can go for a 1600x1200 windows pristine resolution in 32-bit color. Very pleasant on the eye. And with its 16MB of SDRAM and 250MHz RAMDAC its 2D performance is up their with the rest of the pack when it comes to Windows9X. The 2.0GB/sec frame buffer bandwidth is good in anyone's book.

In addition, support for multi-monitor display has been implemented along the bog-standard Microsoft WHQL for compatibility. Although I only tested the Viper V550 on Windows 98 based systems; Diamond has written drivers for Windows 95 and indeed NT. You might say that everyone is catered for- except users of OS2 Warp. On the gaming side of the fence DirectX drivers and full OpenGL ICD drivers are also provided. So let the benchmarks begin (and just for you Blue I've done those saucy and bubbly graphs again). Again bear in mind the benchmarks listed for the Spectra 2500 are taken from a non-production unit that was running at 100MHz and NOT the default setting of 90MHz.

Benchmarks on a Pentium II @ 400Mhz

Incoming - Sin - Quake demo1 - Quake demo2

Benchmarks on a Pentium II @ 300Mhz

Incoming - Sin - Quake demo1 - Quake demo2

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