http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/ Engadget Comments for VIA-owned S3 Graphics crashes the GPGPU party http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Avoid like the plague!]]>Oct 17th 2008 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/
+1, totally agree.

I was building a cheap P4 a few years back with an AIO motherboard with VIA graphics. Their drivers are piece o' crap. Drivers updates post on a monthly basis with each driver giving different features and dropping few existing features.]]>Oct 17th 2008 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/
With ATi or nVidia writing drivers, the Chrome hardware might be semi-decent--but S3's graphic drivers are so horrible that it's almost unspeakable.]]>Oct 17th 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/
A DX10.1-compliant, low-power, fair performance graphics chip would certainly go down well in the mobile market. Integrate it with VIA's x86 chipset, and you've got some real market presence in the power efficiency arena.

It's hard to compete against the triumvirate of Intel, AMD and Nvidia (even AMD's former fabrication division is having a hard time keeping up!). The best way to compete is to work on your strongest product segment - for VIA, that's power efficiency.]]>Oct 17th 2008 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Its a bolt on configuration, they charge $10 per loop.]]>Oct 17th 2008 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 18th 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/
I'd really like to drag them out into public. There are horrible drivers, and then there are S3 drivers.]]>Oct 17th 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/
go figure]]>Oct 17th 2008 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.surveillance-video.com/need8vi12ree1.html?productid=need8vi12ree1&channelid=FROOG
These guys expect you to install the drivers manually (as if "DeviceID" or an installer was too new of a concept for determining what is what on the board) Not only are the drivers blind to the DeviceID, but they are completely incompatable without a very specific pentium 4 motherboard chipset and only the radeon 7000 series. My parents spent $500 or so on this complete POS, and I cant get the damn thing working for the life of me. Its insane that they expect someone to actually buy the card as a standalone product, because its obviously engineered for their very specific security camera workstation pc's that they build. You gotta love this too, it friggin restarts the pc when you click the X to exit the security cam software... Luckily I tore that POS feature out with resource hacker...

I wanna break something now.]]>Oct 17th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 18th 2008 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/
The problem is of course that both ATI/Nvdia have no intention of leaving that market alone so they HAVE to
release the card with excellent drivers and a very good performance.]]>Oct 17th 2008 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 17th 2008 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 18th 2008 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/17/via-owned-s3-graphics-crashes-the-gpgpu-party/Oct 19th 2008 1:41PM