Review: SiS Xabre 400

We'll be taking a look at performance up against NV17 (NVIDIA's GeForce4 MX) and also NV25 (NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4400) to show you how Xabre does. Using the usual Hexus benchmark lineup, lets have a look at how Xabre stacks up.

Before we move onto a couple of pages of benchmarks, lets take a look at the test platform.

• MSI 645E Max2 LRU, SiS645DX Chipset, Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 DDR Motherboard
• Intel Pentium 4 1.8A 'Northwood' @ 133MHz FSB (2.4GHz, 2.4B effective)
• 2 x 256Mb Samsung PC2700 DDR Memory Modules (CAS2, 2-5-2)
• SiS Xabre 400 Reference Card 64MB
• MSI G4Ti4400-VTD (MS-8871) GeForce4 Ti4400 128MB
• MSI GeForce4 MX440 64MB
• Adaptec 39160 PCI SCSI Dual Channel U160 controller
• 2 x 73Gb Seagate Cheetah U160 10,000rpm SCSI disks
• Plextor 12/10/32S SCSI CDRW
• Pioneer 6x Slot-load SCSI DVD
• Creative Soundblaster Audigy Player Retail

• Windows XP Professional Build 2600.xpclient.010817-1148
• DetonatorXP 27.42, 28.80 NVIDIA drivers
• Aquamark v2.3
• Quake3 v1.30
• 3DMark 2001 Professional Second Edition
• Serious Sam: The Second Encounter Demo
• Comanche 4 Demo Benchmark

The final moves to my new benchmark platform at Hexus are complete and the 1.8A @ 2.4B and SiS 645DX board will be my staple system for quite a while to introduce some consistency back into my review results.

So lets see how the Xabre stacks up against the mighty NV25 and it's direct competitor, the NV17.