Integrated Graphics: Sizing up the Mirage
The SiS662 northbridge comes equipped with a Mirage 1 integrated graphics solution that borrows its video memory from the system’s RAM. Based on this, we should not expect high performance from this graphics processor.
Drivers for Windows XP are included on the CD that comes with the board and the SiS website also provides drivers for Windows Vista. Since the integrated Mirage 1 graphics core does not support the Aero interface, it is only validated for the most basic version of Windows Vista. Of course other versions will install on this hardware as well, but graphics performance will be very low.
Image quality is also sub-par: at 1280x1024 the VGA port still provides a decent image, but at 1600x1200 the image is washed out and blurry.
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Good article... But dollars... Really?
Think I'll just follow most readers and just concentrate reading the US site of Tom's from now on.
I agree. This is a good article............but............
I cannot source this board in the UK (all are saying out of stock). Also, why bother to have a UK site when most articles relate to USA, ie dollars.
It is much better to just log in to the USA site
Wouldn't the Intel Little Falls (M-ITX) board with the Atom processor be a better choice? Same price (if not even lower?) and uses less power?
Ditch the serial & parallel ports, give me a gbit network card and I'm sold! Oh and like other people say, prices in £ ffs
I'm forever being asked to build fast computers, and this proves once again that unless you actually use that power (and wisely), you're not going to see a huge difference. Intel..AMD..doesn't matter; you just don't need to spend a fortune these days and both platforms offer great power thermal envelopes.
..if only AMD would market these features more.
One thing does stand out: no 'C1E Speedstep' support..you'd have thought with a system like this, that such a feature would be standard. Guess it's just an easy way of getting rid of old S-479 gear.