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Elsa Gladiac 511

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Gladiac 511

ELSA Gladiac 511

November 9, 2001

WHAT'S HOT: The ELSA Gladiac 511 performs similarly to other 64MB GeForce2 MX-400-based boards, and it carries a reasonable price of $129. It also comes with an S-Video-out port and an S-Video/composite adapter cable. The board showed very good lighting and color in our test games, and the moments that looked overly bright could be adjusted easily.

WHAT'S NOT: The extra RAM doesn't provide any performance boost over 32MB MX-400 boards; it only lets you play at 1600 by 1200 resolution, albeit slowly. For example, in Quake 3 at 1600 by 1200, we saw only 21 frames per second. And during our Test Drive 6 evaluation, we noticed some minor hesitations.

WHAT ELSE: ELSA bundles a color-calibration utility as well their DVD software, ELSAmovie2000. You can play games on an attached TV, but only at a maximum resolution of 1024 by 768. ELSA includes two games with the Gladiac 511: Pro Rally 2001 and Ultima Online Renaissance. The company provides toll-free phone support during weekdays.

UPSHOT: Games look good when played on the Gladiac 511, and the board performs similarly to other GeForce2 MX-400 boards, but it costs a bit more than 32MB versions.


SUMMARY
ELSA Gladiac 511



4X AGP, NVidia GeForce2 MX-400 chip, 64MB of SDRAM, 350-MHz RAMDAC, S-Video-out, composite-out; color-calibration utility, software DVD player, two PC games.

$129
800/272-3572
www.elsa.com

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