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Unitech Optimus 8500 eXP Review
By Vince Freeman :
July 11, 2002
Unitech Optimus 8500 eXP Specifications
Graphics controller:
- 300 MHz RADEON 8500 GPU (R200)
Memory configuration:
- 128-MB of 275 MHz (550 MHz DDR) of double data rate memory
Features:
- TRUFORM
- SMARTSHADER
- DirectX 8.1 support
- OpenGL 1.3
- SMOOTHVISION anti-aliasing
- HYPER Z II
- CHARISMA ENGINE II
- PIXEL TAPESTRY II
- VIDEO IMMERSION II
- High Performance Memory Support
- Dual Display Support
- Integrated Transformation, Clipping and Lighting
- Twin Cache Architecture
- SuperScalar Rendering
- Single-Pass Multi-texturing
- True Color Rendering
- Triangle Setup Engine
- Texture Cache
- Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
- Line & Edge Anti-aliasing
- Full-Screen Anti-aliasing
- Texture Compositing
- Texture Decompression
- Specular Highlights
- Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping
- Mip-Mapping
- Z-buffering and Double-buffering
- Emboss, Dot Product 3 and Environment bump mapping
- Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping
- Fog effects, texture lighting, video textures, reflections, shadows, spotlights, LOD biasing and texture morphing
Operating systems support
- Windows 98/98SE
- Windows Me
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
Monitor support
- CRT Monitor: 15-pin VGA connector
- TV and VCR: s-video or composite connector
- DVI-I (flat panel display) connector
- VIVO (Video In and Video Out connector)
System requirements
- Pentium 4/III/II/Celeron, AMD K6/Athlon or compatible with AGP 2X or AGP 2X/4X universal slot
- 64MB of system memory
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
- DVD playback requires DVD drive
Retail Box Contents:
- Optimus 8500 eXP Graphics Accelerator
- S-Video and Composite Cables
- DVI-to-VGA and S-Video to Composite Adapters
- VIVO Breakout Cable
- Full Versions of Giants and Serious Sam 1
- MovieXone A/V Software
- Driver, Utility and ATI Multimedia Center CD
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace DVD
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