Club 3D readies S3 Deltachrome/ S4 Omnichrome cards

THE COMPANY THAT is selling all brands and obviously making good way through the crazy graphics market has announced availability of some of the S3 cards. It's Club 3D again and it seems to be very thick with S3 on this launch and the availability of those cards. They were making some noise together at ECTS, exactly a month ago in London.

Club3D will offer three products - DeltaChrome S3 in 128MB and 256MB variations and an OmniChrome S4 128MB version. All three cards have 128 bit memory interfaces. DeltaChrome cards are clocked at 300MHz core and 250MHz memory. The 128 MB version will cost €85 while a 256MB card will cost €109. Omnichrome will be clocked at 350MHz core and 300MHz for memory and sell for €145.

As for availability, both Deltachrome cards should be available next week while the Omnichrome card will be available a week after.

Deltachrome should score 2500 in 3Dmark03 where the Radeon 9600 scores 2700, not bad for this card. You will get Colin Mcrae Rally 04 DVD version, power DVD 5, driver and manual CD, DVI converter, an HDTV cable and S-video to composite cable in a Club 3D nice packed retail pack.

Omnichrome comes with a TV tuner and remote control, and will score 2200 3dmarks. You will get Colin Mcrae Raley 04 DVD version, Intervideo home theater + win DVD creator, driver and manual CD, DVI converter, HDTV cable, S-video to composite cable and remote control.

This means that S3 has finally managed to release real chips for cards. Was Columbia Deltachrome's original codename? If I remember correctly it is and Columbia was my first INQUIRER article back in March 2001. µ