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Introduction
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The Cards
Elsa Gladiac 311 32MB
Elsa Gladiac 511 32MB
Elsa Gladiac 511 64MB
The Test
Twin View and TV out
Benchmark: 3DMark 2001
Benchmark: 3D Winbench 2000 v1.1
Benchmark: Quake 3 Arena: Demo 1 (High Quality)
Benchmark: Vulpine 3Dmark
Conclusion

Reviews
Elsa Gladiac 311 & 511 shootout
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Twin View and TV out
Although NVIDIA’s twin view function started out to be a poor implementation of dual display support, it has gone a long way to improve. Right now, albeit not as matured as Matrox dual head solution, NVIDIA’s twin view is really not that bad a solution.


Box contents of the 511 Twin View video card.



Close look at the Twin View card.



Back shot of the Twin View card.



The Twin View connectors and TV-Out connector.


ELSA’s driver is basically an NVIDIA detonator driver in disguise. It has all the twin view functions the detonator driver has, albeit under ELSA’s name.

The twin view setup utilities and all its functions can be accessed through the quick tweak taskbar icon.


Tweak Taskbar icon


And all other functions can be accessed by the Desktop Display Manager utility Elsa’s twinview configuration program.


Elsa Desktop Display Manager


The ELSA desktop manager also appears when you click on the top uppermost corner of a window.


Elsa Desktop Manager - Twin View


In all, the ELSA twin view was easy to operate, with all function easily accessible with mouse clicks. It also offers almost all the functions other, more mature, dual display solution, like Matrox, have to offer.

As for TV-out solution, ELSA uses the popular Chrontel 7007 chip, and performs as well as the rest of the cards.



 
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