xgi volari agp cards - anyone have one?

[prom3theus]

Are these available yet? It is the product line of a spun-off Sis Xabre product into a new division. There is a Toms Hardware review in graphics cards dated Nov 7. Looks interesting, and supposedly plans are to make them cheaper than the competitors, probably mostly due to the design.

http://www.xgitech.com/

I cannot find a single seller on the net for any of them.

They apparently have a significantly fewer number of transistors on the card than comparable model nvidia and ati cards.

[Solo]

Before you rush out and buy one just note that from the review I read the drivers still need A LOT OF WORK. There is a guy over at the Futuremark forums with one:
http://discuss.futuremark.com/forum/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=techdisplayadapters&Number=3138349&page=7&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=1

[prom3theus]

Wow that thread has way too many posts from people saying crap like 'yes post a picture!'. Anyways, on topic, I'd look at the guy's feedback but his motherboard is about 2 years old at least. Has no ata 133, only supports ddr266 I think, and for some reason it shows his bus speed at 66 in the log of his system!

But I didn't realize it was just now shipping, or about to be shipping retail, so of course always gotta wait until the drivers and boards get a revision or two. Oh well, guess I'll get a geforce or something.

Oh, he's also using a duo board, which is probably much more prone to driver glitches than a single gpu, one would think.