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Quiet videocards always make the best options for a HTPC, and the S3 Chrome S27 videocard certainly gets a few marks on this front.
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Image Quality of the S3 Chrome S27
Here we
will inspect the image quality of the S3 Chrome S27 videocard by looking at a
couple of screenshots from 3DMark05 at 1024x768 resolution. Click on each image to
open up an animated gif and as the animation scrolls through, look closely at
each image to spot the slight differences between various AA/AF levels as demonstrated by the
S3 Chrome S27 GPU.
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S3 Chrome S27 IQ with 4xAA, 16x AF and 4x AA/16x
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The S3
Chrome S27's utilizes DirectX 9 with Pixel Shader 2.0 and Shader Model 2.0 which
gives image quality on par with ATi X800 class videocards and nVIDIA GeForce FX
series videocards. The image quality isn't necessarily cutting edge, but for the
value that this card offers, it's quite good.
Prelude to
Benchmarks
The details of how the S3 Chrome S27 videocard test
system was configured for benchmarking, including the specific hardware,
software drivers, operating system and benchmark versions are indicated below.
In the second column are the general specs for the reference platforms this
Chrome S27 videocard is to be compared against. Please take a moment to look
over PCSTATS test system configurations before moving on to the individual
benchmark results.
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