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    You foreigners can either practice Russian or just look at nice pictures.

    Abstract: 1. 3D on par with G400; 2. 2D is worse than that of G4x0; 3. Business card, simple and plain.
    Computer Revolution makes it possible to substitute educated slaves for ignorant ones. (V.I.Arnold)

  • #2
    Guess they need a optometrist!
    "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss

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    • #3
      Here is a quick translation with help of babelfish! part 1

      Here is a quick translation with help of babelfish!

      This map/chart/card already no one of the " enthusiasts " especially and awaited. Awaited G800, but something was not straightened out with it, but only later all it became clearly - Matrokh leaves from the bloody race/distillation of 3D- armaments, headed by that time NVIDIA and ATI not to the fat, to preserve its unique niche - the niche of qualitative 2d OYEM of product. However, simply 2d now it is entirely already shameful: and in the network/grid the here that there you are encountered the volumetric sites and the inserts, and in the business gradually appear " nonplanar " presentations. Therefore ED is necessary, but not in the recreation area, but, it is faster, in " biznes"- understanding - beautiful, qualitative, bezproblemnoye, inexpensive. Gross speed and fps is not here no longer so/such important, they must be simply adequate to the carried out tasks. in addition, to not very game problems. On the business- computers, of course, also they play into the games. In the evening, after work, by entire ofisom into Tsuakee - excellent discharging. But this clientele is undemanding, by it 30 frames/personnel - for the eyes and for the ears. On that, judging by everything, and they decided. Thus, before us " business- chip " Gshchshch0: 0.18 microns technology, active cooling are not required 64 bits SDR/ddr interface with the memory, volume 8 - 32 mb. AGP ykh-yakh two integrated controllers of display two integrated RAMDACH with the different characteristics: Basic RAMDACH - 360 MHz (permission/resolution to 20ya8khyshche' @ of e2bpp) additional RAMDACH - 230 MHz (permission/resolution to y'00khy200 @ of e2bpp) two integrated TDMS of transmitter for the digital interfaces (permission/resolution to 1280 X of 1024 @ e2bpp) the integrated coder of signal for the TV- output/yield the clock frequency of nucleus/kernel 126 MHz the clock frequency of memory 166 MHz (2.5 Gb per second for DDR of memory) the apparatus support of overleyev for the reproduction DVD and other videomaterialov, including smooth passage between the frames/personnel apparatus 2d acceleration in accordance with Shindoshs 2000 GDI DirechtDrash 8.0 by specifications T&l with the support Of matrikh To palette Of skinning (Skining on the collection of matrices/dies) improved apical sheydery " YueadChasting. To engine " (DirechtKh of 8.0 sheydery, but with the number of accessible constants, increased from 96 to 256, that it makes it possible to use to 32 matrices/dies for skininga and animatsii of apexes/vertexes) Piksel'nye sheydery are absent two piksel'nykh conveyors on two textural blocks for each the bilinear, trilinear and anisotropic filtration of textures AGP texturing YEMBM the relief imposition of textures the support Of shindoshs. KHP, Shindoshs 2000, Shindoshs me, Shindoshs 98, Shindoshs 95, Shindoshs NT 4.0 Linukh Of direchtKh 8.0 and Of openGL 1.2

      Well that zh, if it is honest - this is outstanding chip. At least, for its niche - nothing excess, and in this case everything in one. Consequence - simple and inexpensive pay, an increase in the reliability, a reduction in the prime cost. Completely decent work with two monitors and its very not bad support at the level of drivers. Not bad apparatus support of overleyev. Very interesting solution - integrated support of TV- output/yield. And truth - complexity into the chip will add on the face of imperceptible, and it will lower the price of assembling and testing pay. Reached into the inheritance from so not originated G800 improved apical sheydery. But here piksel'nye, probably, proved to be too expensive a pleasure for the realization in a similar chip. Well and, it goes without saying, the excellent quality Of 2d basic RAMDACH. Say that it is still must for the business- applications today? Let us explain situation so called " YueadChasting. To engine ". In standard, supported GeForchee apical sheyderakh it is possible, processing each apex/vertex, to use to 86 vectors of constants. For example, if we are simply multiplied it to the collection of matrices/dies (sufficiently extended case), we can use to 96/4 (on 4 vectors to the matrix/die), i.e., 24 matrices/dies. For the majority of the play applications of this it is more than sufficiently; however, actually complex animatsii, for example animatsiya of the mimicry of human face, can require a larger quantity of control points and, as a result, matrices/dies. T&l Gshchshch0 makes it possible to carry out improved apical sheydery, whose basic difference consists of the possibility to use to 256 constant vectors simultaneously, i.e., to 64 control matrices/dies in the most primitive case. Accordingly, and the length of sheydera was increased from 128 to 256 instructions - indeed otherwise to use this advantage it will be impossible. The presence of similar apparatus resources/lifetimes in T&l allowed the simple programs, which use not apical sheydery, but usual apparatus matrix blending of apexes/vertexes, to use collections from the matrices/dies to 64 inclusively. Most likely, in practice the drivers Gshchshch0 simply transmit this call Of direchtKh into corresponding, created in flight apical sheyder.
      But now let us look to the same chip, but is somewhat more pessimistichno. Practically, this is still the same Gyashch0, but with T&L by block and two piksel'nymi conveyors. Price of map/chart/card with 32 mb. of memory - order $135. Productivity Of gshchshch0 noticeably below others of the extended ed- solutions similar by price. Lower than MKHYA00 and cheaper Of radeon OF LE (it is not must and tests, sufficient information about the 64- the bit to data bus, although the tests can become by something like cold soul for the worshippers of the production Of matrokh). this from one side. With others ("two-headed "and" video") of side gathers ATI Of radeon VE - two are democratic identical RAMDACH (in contrast to GYAKHKH and Gshchshch0, both RAMDACH Of radeon VE they have valuable of characteristic - 350 MHz) and even more developed of videovozmozhnosti (in all for $98). However, on what to lean to marketologam from Matrokh? The response/answer of ocheviden - to the reputation (although below we will show that to blow up even such, decades fostered, authority it is possible sufficiently easily) earned in 25 years of existence of 2D, doubtful is the advantage apical sheyderov with 256 constants (which, it goes without saying, anyone into the strange programs support it will not thus far be, so that it was necessary to apply by its own program for the demonstration) and that most important, the prevailing BY OYEM contacts large by customers. Here, strictly, and everything. Perhaps this it is insufficient? No, not for the leadership, but is simple for the retention/maintaining its own ecological of niche generally and the quotient of the company Of matrokh Of grapyuichs in particular. But now we will pass to the examination directly of videokarty. Pay The map/chart/card Of matrokh Of millennium Of gshchshch0 has AGP of kh2/khya interface, 32 mb. DDR SGRAM of the memory, placed in 2- X microcircuits on by facial to side PCHB.
      Mikroskhemy to pamyati marki Of samsung, of vremya of vyborki - 6 ns, chto sootvetstvuyet 166 (333) MGts. Na to etoy chastote to pamyat' funktsioniruyet. To pochemu takoye neobychno maloye chislo mikroskhem? Pervoprichina v of tom, chto of seychas na to rynke of mnogo seriyno of the vypuskayemykh e2-bitnykh of moduley bol'shoy yemkosti (of 16 megabayt), a of dlya of organizatsii of 'ya-bitnoy shiny dostatochno of vsego 2-x takikh mikroskhem. However, Konechno, of esli to pomechtat' and to assume that na to oborote of karty to est' to eshche to dve of the takikh of mikroskhemy, to to krome of 64-x megabayt OZU my of imeli by, prezhde.vsego, y28-bitnuyu shinu of obmena s By dDR-pamyat'yu! Da, graficheskiy protsessor ne of rasschitan na takuyu shinu, da even razvodka of platy... However, No eto prosto of mechty. Togda and skorost' v Of 3d byla by... However, my uzhe zabegayem of vpered. Vernemsya k Of matrokh Of millennium Gshchshch0. Chto to srazu brosayetsya v glaza? Nebol'shoy of razmer PCHB da traditsionnyy dlya Of matrokh chernyy igol'chatyy radiator of bez of ventilyatora, of pod kotorym mozhno to nayti and sam GPU (ofitsial'no of chip mozhno of tak to nazyvat', odnako of ruka ne podnimayetsya to pisat' etot of termin of dlya of oboznacheniya of protsessora, imeyushchego Yuardshare TCHL " of dlya of galochki").
      PCHB has also traditional for the production of this company of dark green color, and the most remarkable the special feature of map/chart/card - this the method of fastening nest VGA for the conclusion/derivation basic of signal to the pervichnyy monitor. In the photograph of map/chart/card one can see well that the nest is located above map/chart/card itself, it is held to the daughterly the shawl, which through the joint is connected with basic PCHB. to you this nothing it does resemble? Me - immediately reminded SIF from BAG, which sometimes not only it did not improve the quality of picture, but even it contributed to zamylivaniyu of image. Already did sneak suspicions? But not all immediately... When we reach the results of testing, then have a talk about this. You, probably noted that Matrokh passed on the new for itself and obychnuyu already for contemporary of the maps/charts/cards of business- class the form of the supply of videokarty by output to two receivers: one output/yield - standartnyy VGA, and by the second - DVI, but in the complete set with the adapter DVI- that -VGA (to the right). Since entire/all support by the digital of interface is integrated in essence chip, this simplifies the separation of pay, making it more cheaply. Thus, we can obtain image on two receivers (for example, obychnykh monitors), using possibilities of DualHead- technology, which it was reached as the inheritance from Gya00:
      Best regards
      Tor

      "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
      Arthur C. Clarke

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      • #4
        part 2

        I.e., on the basis of photograph is obtained generated exploded view, which is very similar to the original. It it is possible to send to friends and by the familiar (only necessary not to forget to ask them to skachat' program- checker). As we see, this is actually unique technology, nothing similar earlier to us was encountered. The question arises: is laid all this into the apparatus possibilities Of matrokh Gshchshch0? We here here and obtain the second sense of this " uniqueness itself ". Matrokh Gshchshch0 is here participating only as checker. In order to obtain final exploded view it will be necessary with the aid of the program Of digimask to convert photographs into the special-size, and utility will send everything... to the site Of matrokh, whence after a certain time will arrive on e -mail address the already generated 3D- image. But Matrokh Gshchshch0 with the aid of YueadChasting will allow you to improve this picture, making that with its more smoothed. Thus, we gradually begin to understand, that Gya00, in the essence, " wrapped up into the new wrapper ", introduced " for galochki " Yuardshare TCHL, reduced the cost of product itself, integrating everything into the chip (however, already Gyashch0 it possessed all the same), for the beauty they supplied with " unique " software, which wonderfully could work on any map/chart/card (well, if we do not consider YueadChasting), they replaced the design of map/chart/card. And came out, allegedly, new product. I think that there is no sense of news whatever conversation about the innovations in the 3D- graph, introduced in Gshchshch0, about which we spoke above, since this in the 3D- games is unimportant. For the sake of fairness it is necessary to again note that videokarta of this level was created not for the 3D- games, but it was aimed nevertheless in the business- sector. Such maps/charts/cards greatly love professionals, very much workers with the 2D- drawing in the high resolutions. They exactly will remain contented, although 4 personally nevertheless I cannot understand - than plokh Gya00 or Gyashch0? And why it was necessary to let out " the same eggs, side view "? Map/chart/card can be supplied both in the Retail- packing and in the OEM- form. Delivery includes: the management/manual of user; disk with the drivers and the utilities; adapter DVI- that -VGA; adapter VGA- that -TV.

        Dispersal/acceleration at the present moment/torque only last version Of posherStrip 3.0 is capable of less correctly determining the frequencies of work Gshchshch0. although here not without the oddities: sometimes PosherStrip demonstrates the frequency of the work of nucleus/kernel in 63 MHz: -) But during the attempt to here change frequencies complete leap-frog begins. The sliders of frequencies skip as abnormal, numbers can be completely absurd. Therefore, frankly speaking, 4 so he did not understand, how 4 it drove away map/chart/card. Increase in the productivity exists, but what in this case frequencies - to me to say difficultly, since PosherStrip showed 166 MHz of the work of memory, and nuclei/kernels - 178 MHz (4 not smog to believe, that Gshchshch0 it could easily with 126 MHz to drive away to 178 MHz). Although, the not such significant increases in the productivity attest to the fact that the frequency of the work of memory is the main thing (as in NVIDIA Of geForche2 MKH). simple to establish/install other frequencies it proved to be practically impossible. Installation and drivers let us examine the configuration of the test stand, on which were conducted the tests of the map/chart/card Of matrokh Of millennium Gshchshch0: Computer on the base Of pentiumya: processor Intel Pentiumya 1500; system pay ASUS OF HEELS (i8shch0); the working storage 256 MB. RDRAM PCH800; the hard disk Of tsuantum FB ACE 20GB; the operating system Of shindoshs 98 SE. On the stand were used the monitors Of viyeshSonich P8y0 (21") and ViyeshSonich P8y" (21"). During the testing were used the drivers from Matrokh Of grapyuichs of version 6.70, VSynch it was opened (through PosherStrip). For the comparative analysis were used the readings/indications from videokart: THE BAG Of platinum Of geForche2 MKH200 (E2MB it 'yabit SDRAM, 175/166 MYuz); Matrokh Of millennium Gya00 (E2MB it y28bit SGRAM, 126/162 MYuz, DualYuead); Matrokh Of millennium Gyashch0 (Y'mb it 'yabit DDR SGRAM, 120/160 MYuz, DualYuead). As it is already well known, into the set of drivers from Matrokh enters its firm program Of posherDesk.

        As can be seen from picture to the right, into the number of services Of posherDesk enters even the organization the virtual workers of tables. I.e., besides the expansion of desktopa to two monitors through DualYuead you can have and still "spare" worker tables. Let us note one additional depressing fact - into the data the moment/torque cannot be verified the presence and the functioning T&L of the block of map/chart/card! The current drivers report about the absence even base of the T&L- possibilities, not to mention promised moved apical sheyderakh and record matrix blendinge and skininge of models. Block is completely blocked (forgive for the pun) either because of by its incorrect of functioning into the data of the revision/examination of chip or because of the unfinished drivers. Results of tests 4 not in vain above made hint to worsening/deterioration in the quality of 2D in Matrokh Of millennium Of gshchshch0 in comparison with the previously released maps/charts/cards from this firm. Yes, apparently, the installation of nest VGA on the daughterly pay went into the harm. In any case, if earlier during the comparison of the quality of picture in any maps/charts/cards 4 always took for the standard of videokarty Of matrokh Of gya00 and especially Gya00 MACH, then now for me already conscience does not make it possible Gshchshch0 to use as a standard by the best of the quality of drawing. In y'00khy200 with 85 Hz already something not that. The same clear, but general/common light zamylennost' is present like the line. Where to already here conduct discussion o "crystal clear" quality. I personally from this become sad. Of course the influence of konkretnogo copy 4 I cannot but consider, but earlier in Matrokh of such it was not observed. We take up the estimation/evaluation of the productivity of videokarty in ed. As the set of instruments we used the following programs: ID To softshare Of tsuakee of v.y.y"- by recreation areas the test, which demonstrates the work of pay into OpenGL with the use of standartnogo demo-benchmarka of demo002; MadOnion of eDMark200y pro - synthetic are the test, which demonstrates work into DirechtKh 8.0 with the use the recreation areas of the tests Of gamey, Game2, Gamee with low of detailing

        Well well that zh, fears on the occasion of low productivity in ED justified. Judge themselves, Gshchshch0 has an architecture, close to GeForche2 MKH, then is 2 conveyors with two textural moduli/modules for each. The interface of memory - 'yabit, but DDR! this only is worse than y28bit SDR, but it is very close to the latter. Then why did come out productivity at the level Of geForche2 MKH200? Indeed in that the busbar/tire of memory 'yabit SDR! There is no response/answer to this, and we can only state/establish this unpleasant situation and surmise about the fact that, possibly, is guilty the absence in the chip of those being proper keshey or their very small size/dimension or the badly organized work with the memory.

        We see that the picture only is better, than into Tsuakee; Matrokh Of millennium Gshchshch0 already sometimes passes GeForche2 MKH200 in the 32- bit color (nevertheless the presence of DDR- memory it is shown with the equal with MKH200 64- bit busbars/tires). Nevertheless, superiority is minimal, and therefore Gshchshch0 it is possible boldly to carry on the productivity to the class Of mKh200/TNT2Pro/Gya00. That that Gshchshch0 has Yuardshare T&l, not one program sees (Matrokh so " it hid well " this block: -), having ensured to it completely no support in the current version of drivers). Conclusions/derivations we examined very ambiguous product. Matrokh Of millennium Gshchshch0 has many pluses, but minuses where it is more. Let us emphasize again: this map/chart/card is not intended for the market for 3D- accelerators, and therefore to the amateurs of three-dimensional games it is hardly suitable (if only you are not the designer, who rarely loves to play a little into the simple games of previous years - pay definitely it does not befit for the contemporary 3D- games). The target/purpose of release/issue Gshchshch0 is visible with the unarmed view: to be noted on the market so that they would remember about existence Of matrokh. But so that they would not indicate that the company entered into 2001 years with the stale product, engineers and marketologi worked rather well, after supplying videokartu with unique software, after introducing the support of hardly suitable (at this speed ED), but attractive functions, and also reworking the design of map/chart/card so that it would not be as two drops of water similar to the previously released products. 4 I see only, in the essence, difference Gshchshch0 from GYA00/gyashch0 - this introduction of the support of the digital monitors: in Gshchshch0 appeared DVI. here, strictly, and all. Let us again note that the current drivers make it possible to use no of the declared BY T&l possibilities of chip, including apical sheydery. The more complete comparative characteristics of videokart of this and other classes you can see in our eDGiTogakh (Matrokh Of millennium Gshchshch0 it will appear in
        Best regards
        Tor

        "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
        Arthur C. Clarke

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        • #5
          part 3

          the August release/issue). Pluses: Excellent quality 2D- graphs relative to the overwhelming majority of contemporary videokart; Very good quality of the performance of map/chart/card; The presence Of dualYuead with the complete complete set of service, into t.ch. Tyuey tV-out; Presence Dvi. Minuses: Quality 2d (relatively previously released Matrokh GYA00/gyashch0), deteriorated; Poddezhka of the technology Of digimask - only marketingovyy motion; The promised apparatus possibilities (T&l) thus far are not supported by drivers.
          Best regards
          Tor

          "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
          Arthur C. Clarke

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