Here is a thought. how about no one cares. S3 makes horrible graphics cards that are slower than hell, have horrible driver problems, and have absolutely no user base. I dont see how they sold one of the cards. I would presume they gave out more to reviewers than they actually sold. Thier so called high end card couldnt even keep up with a 9600pro and it had twice the ram twice the pipelines and twice the number of gpus. Now that is a seriously sad state of affairs for S3. But i guess there will always be someone dumb enough to buy one of these cards....

it looks lke i did confuse the two. Well either way, the S3 wont be able to hold a candle to the nvidia and ati cards. its nice they are trying, but to what end. it will be 2 years before they could even think of becoming competivie. If im not mistaken, the S3 will be coming out around the same time as the R500 and Nv50. Well the R500 is supposedly supposed to have twice the performance of the x800. S3 wont be able to compete with that.

About xgi and driver problems. look a for a few reivews and u will find out you are wrong. the s3 had driver problems in most games and a good portion of the benchmarks werent runable because of this. for instane toms hardware new graphics gudie 4. They have the dual gpu xgi card there.

#1 and #2 go .....

If people are dumb enought to buy the geforce fx5200 and fx5600, why dont they buy S3 cards that win in almost every benchmark beating those cards. No cheating optimizations, and lower 16bit render, WHY NOT?