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Installation was carried out without a hitch. The only distracting element was the whiney fan on the CPU's heatsink.
We've mentioned that the S3 graphics weren't cut out for gaming. However, one area that they excelled in was 2D quality. The images portrayed on a Hansol 17" CRT were crisp, sharp and detailed; a definite cut above some we've seen incorporated into all-in-one motherboards. The crispness remained intact up to 1600x1200. This is a definite plus if you're looking at computer displays all day long.
The driver panel provides one with the necessary information to get dual displays up and running. A nice GUI makes it easy to use. One must remember to toggle the correct device settings from within BIOS first.
We'd expect a number of users to take advantage of the external video source provided by the EPIA M10000. Here is where the drivers seemed to be a little buggy. Increasing the size by depressing the size option once seemed to add around 20% to the image's size. There seems to be no method of fine-tuning the display to your liking. The positioning, though, was pretty good. The VT1622M provides an adaptive flicker filter. Having this option highlighted did seem to stabilise the image somewhat.
A little on the dark side due to the time at which the photo was taken. The EPIA does produce excellent TV playback.
