PowerColor Evil Xabre 400

PowerColor's 'Evil Xabre 400' sticks to the SiS reference specifications, so the 250MHz core is delivering 1G pixels/sec or 2G texels/sec, and a total of 8GB/sec of onboard memory bandwidth. This particular board features 128MB of RAM.

Lets take a look at the PowerColor board:
PowerColor Evil Xabre 400 Board

 

The board is fairly plain and uncomplicated, with few components cluttering the PCB. Although this board as a (small) active heat-sink, it does appear to be for adornment rather then function as there was no thermal compound between the chip package surface and the heat-sink, and it moves to the touch.

Package and Drivers

Lets take a look at what's you get from the retail PowerColor board.


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Evil Xabre 400 Package and Contents

The packaging is functional and complete with typo's on the back ('With Pixel Shade' / 'Without Pixel Shard'!!). It is good to see a company not got overboard with massive quantities of packaging, ending up mainly selling thin air!

The contents of the box is a relatively standard fair, with the board, hardcopy instruction manual, TV-Out leads, a PowerDVD setup disk and driver installation disk.
Display Properties                Information Panel               AGP Information
3D Stereo Support                Overclocking Panel               Xmart Settings
DirectX Settings                OpenGL Settings

 


While the Xabre drivers aren't going to win any beauty prizes, they are functional enough. 2D controls, such as Gamma, overlay and multi display, can be found under the Advanced section of the the Windows XP Display Properties control. The Xabre drivers also install a system tray icon that further controls can be accessed by, such as the information, AGP settings and 3D control panels.