Thursday, March 23, 2000

Installation.

Installation of the Siluro GF256 goes along with no more fanfare than with any other graphics card. Thus, any specific installation information are not required.

The software bundle

The software bundle included with the Abit Siluro GF256 is identical to that of the Siluro GT2, and is composed of: drivers, an Overclocking utility, a DVD movie-player Win DVD v1.3.5, a CD version of the user's manual, Adobe Acrobat Reader, a utility for flashing the card's BIOS, Graphic Max, DirectX 7, and Album View. Two additional CDs contain Test Drive 5, and Shogo Mobile Armour.

Additional materials .

Other materials included with the GT256 include a 1m-long S-Video cable, and a user's manual.

Configuration of the test system

The configuration of the test systems was as follows:

Intel System

Motherboard: Abit BX6 rev 2.0
CPU: Intel Pentium III 450mhz
Memory: 64mb PC100 SDram (LGS)
Primary IDE port controller: Disque dur Quantum KA 9.1gig UDMA66
Secondary IDE port controller: Lecteur de CD-ROM Shuttle 56X
AGP port: Abit Siluro GF256
Graphic card drivers: Nvidia 4.11.01.0368
PCI slot number 1: Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live Value
ISA slot number 2: Modem US Robotic 56k X2
OS: Win98 4.10
DirectX 6.1
GlSetup 1.0.0.110 Beta

Athlon System

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-71X
Motherboard revision: 1.1
CPU: AMD Athlon 800Mhz @ 900Mhz
Memory: 128Mbb Transcend PC133 SDRAM
Primary IDE port Master: Quantum Fireball KA 9.1gig ATA66
Primary IDE port Slave: none
Secondary IDE port Master: Quantum Fireball 3.2 Gig ATA33
Secondary IDE port Slave: Kenwood 52X True X CD-ROM drive
AGP port: Abit Siluro GF256
Graphic card drivers: Nvidia 4.11.01.0368
OS: Win98 built 4.10
DirectX 6.1
GlSetup 1.0.0.110 Beta

Software configuration

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