ELSA
ELSA, a German graphics card manufacturer, began in the professional market but moved more into the consumer market in the 1990s and still exist in this market today. They had a strong partnership with S3 and later with nVidia during the DOS and early Windows era.
Winner 1000
Drivers: Win 3.1, Win 95/98, OS/2 Warp, DOS
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Winner 1000 T2D
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Winner 1000 T3D
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Winner 1000 Pro
The VESA Local Bus version of the Winner 1000 Pro has a 64-bit memory path. The 1000 Pro has a 25-pin header that supports an optional MPEG daugherboard or TV tuner. The S3 Vision864 is a good chipset for DOS and Windows compatibility.
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Winner 1000 AVI
Drivers: Win 3.1, Win 95/98, OS/2 Warp, NT 3.51, NT 4.0, DOS |
Winner 2000
Some variants of the Winner 2000 come with the memory expansion slot and some don't. Perhaps if the board itself is fully populated they didn't add the slot but if you bought the 4 MB version (2 memory chips on the board) you got the expansion slot.
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Winner 2000 AVI/3D
The Winner 2000 AVI/3D supports 1280 x 1024 resolutions in True-Color mode (16.7 million colours) with a 76 Hz refresh rate. For High-Color model (65,000 colours) resolutions can go up to 1600 x 1200 at 85 Hz. As far as 3D performance goes, this is better than most S3 ViRGE VX-based boards, but that's not saying much - it's pretty poor.
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Winner 2000/Office
Like other ELSA "/Office" cards, the Winner 2000/Office is pitched at business applications. It can display True-Colour graphics at resolutions up to 1280 x 1024. The 4 MB version comes with a SODIMM slot for expansion up to 8 MB. Unfortunately, as with all 3dlabs Permedia-based boards, DOS VESA compatibility is non-existent (the onboard VGA BIOS ROM has no VESA modes). Regarding performance, the Winner 2000/Office is not quite as fast as a RiVA 128-based card. The drivers that came with the card are extensive: Windows 3.1, OS/2 Warp 4.0, NT 3.51, NT 4.0 (OpenGL driver). This last bit is important: OpenGL is *only* supported under NT 4.0. 3D performance is not great with this card, however.
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Winner 2000 Pro/X
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Winner II
The Winner II came is two variants - the Winner II-16 and the Winner II-32, with the suffix denoting the amount of RAM onboard. Supports resolutions up to 1920 x 1440. More pics: 1 |
Erazor
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Victory 3D
Some Victory 3D versions have memory slots for the rightmost four. |
Victory II-A16
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Trio64
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Erazor II
Erazer II is ELSA's consumer market-oriented card featuring nVidia's RiVA TNT chipset. At the time of release ELSA also launched Synergy II which is the same card but has specific drivers for professional applications. Unlike other cards based around this chipset, ELSA moved away from nVidia's 'reference' design. It is on a smaller board and has a fan to cool the chipset (though some version of this ELSA card only have a heatsink). The card supports a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080 at 16 bits per pixel colour depth. It was bundled at launch with the game Recoil and a Game Sampler CD consisting of 20 demos. Performance-wise, Erazor II is very similar to the STB Velocity 4400, another TNT-based card, though the SGRAM on the Erazor II ought to give this card a slight lead. More pics: |
Erazor III
Erazor III is ELSA's answer to those looking for a decent card based around nVidia's RiVA TNT2 chipset. The card has 128-bit 2D acceleration with an optimised pipeline for 8, 16, 24 and 32-bit colour depths. It supports Direct3D, OpenGL 1.1, DirectX 6.1. There was a separate version of the Erazor III that got a video-in port as well for video capture. More pics: 1 |
Erazor III LT
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Erazor III LT-A32
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Gloria 3D
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Gloria 4
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Gloria Synergy-4 / Synergy-8
The Synergy-4 and Synergy-8 (4 MB and 8 MB versions respectively) are DirectX 5-compatible and OpenGL 1.1-compatible graphics cards designed for Windows 95/98 and NT 4.0. They have a pixel fillrate of 83 Mpixel/s and a texel fillrate the same. This card was sold to the OEM market, specifically Compaq. |
Gloria Synergy+
This card was sold to the OEM market, specifically Compaq. |
Gladiac 511 TV-Out
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