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To: DiViT who wrote (32754)	4/27/1998 5:35:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

This could be C-Cube's ZiVA in that CineMaster card, not sure though. CyberMax............................ www5.zdnet.com Originally published in the May 1998 issue The CyberMax MaxMedia 4 unquestionably represents as good or better a value than any other system in this roundup, particularly when you factor in its 17-inch monitor and its DVD-ROM drive and decoder board. Whether this system is for you should depend in part on how much importance you place on 3-D graphics, which is hardly a strength of this system. This MaxMedia 4 is based on the Cyrix 6x86MX PR233 and sells for $1,499 in the configuration we tested. This CyberMax offering builds on a Biostar motherboard that uses the Intel 430TX chip set. Buyers who want an AGP system will need to opt for one of the CyberMax's 440LX-based competitors. The system posted a Business Winstone 98 score of 17.4, spot on average for this group. Thanks partly to its STB Nitro 3D PCI graphics card, which is based on S3's Virge/GX chip, the CyberMax scored above average on Business Graphics WinMark 98 and dropped no frames on our Video Playback tests. On 3D WinMark 98, however, the Nitro 3D offered very little acceleration. The MaxMedia 4 managed a 3D WinMark 98 score of only 43, which is about one-tenth the score of the two fastest 3-D results of the roundup. With its 2x DVD transfer rate, Toshiba's SD-M1102 DVD-ROM drive promises better DVD-ROM performance than earlier Toshiba DVD-ROM models, though this shouldn't affect playback of DVD-Video titles. Users who wish to watch DVD-Video movies may decide to attach the system to their TV: The included Quadrant CineMaster MPEG-2 decoder board provides an S-Video-out connector. The CineMaster board uses VGA-inlay technology to send uncompressed video across the PCI bus. Unfortunately, the system comes with no DVD-ROM titles.