Op de Engelse site van ELSA vinden we de aankondiging dat de lancering van de professionele grafische ELSA Gloria DCC kaart, inmiddels een feit is. De kaart is voorzien van nVidia's Quadro DCC GPU, de professionele variant van de Geforce 3 GPU. Hier kun je de verdere specificaties van deze chip rustig nalezen. Hoewel deze kaart in principe voor veel verschillende 3D en CAD/CAM applicaties gecertificeerd is, wordt de nadruk gelegd op 3D studio Max en ELSA's MAXtreme drivers. Zoals al eerder is bericht zal Discreet, eigenaar van 3D studio Max, mede de distributie en verkoop van deze nieuwe kaart gaan verzorgen. De adviesprijs van de ELSA Gloria DCC bedraagt in Engeland £799,99 (omgerekend f 2.840,-) en heeft zoals gebruikelijk bij ELSA 6 jaar garantie:
The ELSA GLoria DCC is customised for digital content creation professionals who need optimum performance for generating designs for character animation, visual effects and games development. It is the only hardware platform with an optimised application driver for 3D Studio Max with the new Vertex and Pixel shader technology from graphics chip maker NVIDIA. The ELSA MAXtreme driver delivers both performance and stability for the DCC user.
The nFinite engine of the NVIDIA Quadro DCC GPU (graphics processor unit) enables the integration of new features of 3D Studio Max for use in DCC applications as well as offering a significant performance boost.
ELSA's product manager for graphics Adam Foat commented, "This is a specialist tool for people at the cutting edge of digital animation. Designers can now program an almost limitless number of effects and review the results straight away."
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The ELSA GLoria DCC is customised for digital content creation professionals who need optimum performance for generating designs for character animation, visual effects and games development. It is the only hardware platform with an optimised application driver for 3D Studio Max with the new Vertex and Pixel shader technology from graphics chip maker NVIDIA. The ELSA MAXtreme driver delivers both performance and stability for the DCC user.



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Consumers can dump their digital photos into it, back up their computer files and store digital audio. The Terapin Mine also can be connected to a corporate LAN (local area network) and used as a mini file server. A PC card slot allows the use of wireless network adapters.
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So to summarize for my trouble, I got a 70MHz increase in the core and an 84MHz in the memory over standard settings, not too shabby!
LiteOn's attempt at the 24x writing speed is much more than satisfactory. The LTR-24102B seems to be the faster recorder, for now, and managed to outperform both Sanyo and TDK 24x drives in many reading/writing tests. The drive's overall performance was very good and -for sure- users will enjoy both 20x and 24x writing speeds. Other important features such as: support for SD2 protected discs, overburning (up to 99min) and reading/writing SubChannel data are present. Of course nothing is perfect and the drive needs improvement at the DAE ripping speed and when reading protected CDs. Also the drive doesn't support 1X, 2X, 4X recording speeds, which maybe be wanted from some users.