Trident wants to kick a..???

**eagle1** · August 6th, 2002, 09:56 AM

Check this out:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1673

it seems Trident wants in on the Fun too!
SO now we have the GeForce 4 MX line, the Radeon 9000, the Xabre cards and now Trident offering cheap cards! What do you think?
Personally I'll wait for benchmarks of course but it looks promising!

**OuTpaTienT** · August 6th, 2002, 10:09 AM

Bah! Trident has tried before. Remember the Blade 3D? Of course you don't. Because nobody bought one.

I wish them luck. More competition is always good for us. But just like you eagle, I'll just wait for the benchmarks.

**Thud** · August 6th, 2002, 10:14 AM

I just read the same thing a little while ago.

Awaiting benchmarks.

**RobRich** · August 6th, 2002, 03:05 PM

Out is dead on correct about Trident. The Blade3D chipset was to offer GeForce level performance for bargain basement prices. It barely competed with TNT level cards, less long a GF series product. Trident made great 2D cards back in the day, still make decent entry-level notebook graphics chipsets, but have no desktop offerings worth wasting your time on these days. Rumors about alpha silicon numbers do not seem impressive, but I will try hard to reserve judgement until market release. The only real problem I have is that I do not know any internal sources at Trident, thus my pre-release information about this product is to be considered unreliable at best.

My opinion concerning the value segment right now? For anyone needing a dirt cheap video solution with decent performance/options, go for a SIS Xabre chipset card.

As for increased mid-range graphics market competition, wait until Intel announcess its new standalone (that's right, not integrated!) video chipset solution, and no, I am not talking about the recent Intel acquisition of ImagTech/Kyro VR technologies.

Robert Richmond

**Redwolf** · August 6th, 2002, 03:36 PM

All I remember about Trident is that the Voodoo 3 was better than their last chipset

**GroundZero3** · August 6th, 2002, 03:41 PM

we have several trident cards laying aroudn here. and i say "hell no we won't go!" i have seen there "preformance" and you can count me out

until they have benchmanrked it against a gfroce 4 and a radeon. ill keep my money

**Geotpf** · August 6th, 2002, 05:04 PM

I had a 1 meg Trident video card in my 386 I got in 1992. I remember being impressed because it could do 1024x768. I think it was only 256 colors though, and it was interlaced (ewww), although that might have been my monitor's fault.

**Geotpf** · August 6th, 2002, 05:15 PM

Originally posted by RobRich
My opinion concerning the value segment right now? For anyone needing a dirt cheap video solution with decent performance/options, go for a SIS Xabre chipset card.

I have one problem with the SIS Xabre-they have transparent cheating drivers for it.

http://www4.tomshardware.com/graphic.../xabre-04.html

I'm still boycotting Asus over thier boneheaded attempt at this a year or two back, so SIS goes on that list as well.

**eagle1** · August 7th, 2002, 09:25 AM

I am not talking about the recent Intel acquisition of ImagTech/Kyro VR technologies.

LOL!!!!!! Dammit!!!!!!!

The Xabre is a very good option! The card does very good for being a "cheap" card! But I still want to see what Trident can offer and yes... I remember the Blade 3d (yuck!!).

I have one problem with the SIS Xabre-they have transparent cheating drivers for it.

Well,...... you don't have to use them!!!!

prexaspes · August 9th, 2002, 08:02 PM

If they can do it, good.

**radio1_mike** · August 13th, 2002, 09:53 AM

Wait a sec--

I thought the SiS was different from the Trident.

Tom's Hardware did a great review of the Xabre, it was quite competitive with the GF4MX level. But they did not mention anything about it being a Trident card.

And Trident has a 'new' XP card out, I posted the info here for hardware news. But that article mentions no cross-branding.

What gives? Is the SiS Xabre the Trident XP?

**RobRich** · August 18th, 2002, 08:07 AM

What gives? Is the SiS Xabre the Trident XP?

Definitely not. The Xabre is a SIS DirectX 8.x chipset that is currently available on the market. The XP is a Trident DX 9 chipset that will be released sometime around late Q3 or early Q4.

Robert Richmond