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Low to mid range. You can play 3d games on them since 6326.

I snagged a shrinkwrapped SiS 315E 32MB recently because it was like $6 shipped (its staying in the box). Might as well collect them since its all ATI/Nvidia anymore.

I remember one 6326 card I had. Best VESA compability ever. Performance wise is was just okay.

I only have experience with a 8MB PCI 6326 card... I can't recommend it for DOS stuff... it's a windows vga IMHO

My SIS experience was also an integrated 6326 on a pc chips pentium 2 motherboard, was pretty stable If I remember correctly.

I remember racking my brains out trying to get opengl to work with the 6326 but could never work it out, Im sure I read somewhere that it supported opengl or something or other?

For 3D I suggest that you keep your distance unless for the usual Dos stuff. Not as bad as Cirrus Logic and Trident.

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

I remember one 6326 card I had. Best VESA compability ever. Performance wise is was just okay.

I had an 8mb AGP 6326 for 6 months for my back then temporary "main pc" (PentiumII 350, 256mb pc100 ram) and it performed horribly under any D3D game, Windows 2D was quite slow too.

SiS cards were mainly entry level in terms of performance. Even their late offerings like the Xabre 600 weren't very good perfomers. The Xabre 600 couldn't even keep up with a GF4 MX440 runnning DX7 games on a consistent basis, and it was supposed to be a DX 8.1 compliant card. I can only imagine how much it would bog down if you tried running a game with DX8 rendering turned on.

The problem with the Xabre's is that they do Vertex stuff in software mode. I wonder how they perform in DirectX 7 games though.

SiS 315 (also known as the first Xabre)

It's DirectX 7. Slower than a typical GeForce 2 MX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOGM8Dffbkc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBTIg9fQLis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn-2E80kcLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU-AqsstVPg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEx7ZgL13gs
(warning Youtube tends to mangle fluidity and quality of videos)

NitroX infinity wrote:

The problem with the Xabre's is that they do Vertex stuff in software mode. I wonder how they perform in DirectX 7 games though.

The Xabre 80/200/400 did vertex in software but the 600 added a hardware vertex unit and it was still slow. That's not stopping me from trying to find one, though.

NitroX infinity wrote:

The problem with the Xabre's is that they do Vertex stuff in software mode. I wonder how they perform in DirectX 7 games though.

I don't see why would software vertex shading be a problem. TnL unit was hardware, albeit slow as well.

As I've read it (a while ago I'll admit) game-companies focused on hardware vertex shading which caused problems with the Xabres and many games required patching.

I don't know if that was one of those exaggerations that often come by on the internet though.

Updated photos of my SiS graphics cards including the ultra rare Xabre 80 😉 I have got almost all the cards I need beside Xabre 600... Does anyone here have a Xabre 600 with 128 MB RAM? I was wondering if there is a version with that much memory. I have a Xabre 400 with 128 MB ram, so I think there must be a version of Xabre 600 with more than 64 Megabytes.

I envy you. How did you find Xabre 80? I haven't seen one in the wild since ... ever. Can you tell me the clocks of that WinFast card? I have only HIS model of SiS 300.

Thanks, it's good to hear it from someone who has almost all the cards that I envy him ;P I was lucky 😁 It;s good to have friends spread all over the world 😜 I found it in Italy, it is totally new, unused with the original drivers and manual, unfortunatelly no BOX 🙁 I will check the clocks of that SiS 300 and let you know later.