The sun is scorching, and the blue sky is like a wash.

Because millions of Chinese students have already entered the summer vacation, the national personal computer market, whether it is expensive brand machines or affordable assembly machines, has entered the sales season.

With the early arrival of the "Youying Overlord" chip, Changxiang Group's graphics card factory in Huizhou, Guangdong Province was put into production as soon as possible.

The model of the new graphics card is set as LX100, and the sales name is set as "Imagination Tianteng" graphics card, and the delivery price is 850 yuan.

Because the product design has long been determined, and even 30,000 pieces have been prefabricated in advance, only the final installation of the "Youying Overlord" chip is missing, so the production speed of the graphics card assembly line is unprecedentedly fast.

From the chip into the dust-free workshop to unpack the plastic seal, into the assembly line to start welding, it only took 24 hours, the first batch of 3,000 motherboards have entered the packaging workshop set marking, and soon the packaging was completed, the first batch was sent to Shenzhen.

According to the internal accounting of Changxiang Group, the cost of this graphics card is about 580 yuan, so the delivery price of 850 yuan has a lot of room for reduction, and if the market sales are not good, the price will be reduced all the way.

With the help of the channel advantages all over the country, Changxiang Group has already notified the franchise agents at all levels across the country in advance, requiring all first-level franchise agents to take the first batch of 1,000 pieces, second-level agents to get 300 pieces, and third-level agents to get 100 pieces.

Yan Changfu, as the largest first-class franchise agent of Changxiang Computer in Shenzhen, has relied on the products of Changxiang for many years, and has long been full of money.

In the face of the rigid requirements of imagination, Yan Changfu naturally couldn't run the hard showdown of 1000 graphics cards.

In these years, as a first-class agent of Changxiang Computer, it is a risk-free business, relying on the well-known golden signboard of Changxiang, and there has almost never been a backlog of new products that cannot be sold.

But Yan Changfu frowned today, because in his opinion, although the graphics card of "Imagination Tianteng" is not too expensive, the graphics card has always sold poorly, and the sales are far inferior to the motherboard.

In his office on the top floor of SEG Computer City, Yan Changfu hung up the phone. instructed his employees: "The goods have arrived at the warehouse, Xiao Yang, go to the bank to transfer 850,000 yuan." ”

"What do you write in the note?"

“LX100。 Tianteng graphics card. ”

"How many?"

"A thousand. ”

"Oh. ”

Not long after Xiao Yang went out, the nearby warehouse sent the graphics card to Yan Changfu's store.

After Yan Changfu learned about it, he walked out of the office behind the store and instructed the employees to put the graphics cards on the shelves and in the stacking room at the back.

"Brother Yan, how much does this graphics card cost?"

"First according to the market guidance price given by Changxiang. 1280。 ”

"It's quite expensive, what kind of chip do you use?"

Yan Changfu frowned: "What kind of overlord is it called Youying? Anyway, it's a new product." ”

A young man with a screwdriver in his hand smiled and said, "Just take it apart and see if you know." ”

So he unpacked it and took out a Tianteng graphics card.

“S…… S3!" The employees were stunned when they heard this, and they gathered around to take a look.

"Impossible! Now the S3 chip graphics card on the market, the cheapest has been sold for 2, 300 pieces! This thing is considered a low-end product even in the 486 era!"

"But the main display chip is S3! This chip starts to be batched at 1,000 pieces, and the unit price is less than 15 US dollars!"

"It's too bad, the graphics card of imagination is not easy to sell, every time it is sold to the end, there is inventory, and imagination recycles inventory and only refunds 70% of the money, isn't this asking us to cover the bottom!"

"If you don't enter, you'll be fine. Brother Yan, how much has you entered?" an employee asked worriedly.

Yan Changfu said with a dark face: "A thousand pieces, hard indicators." ”

"it!"

"It's too dark. ”

"What a fuck. ”

Everyone sighed when they heard this, and then they all opened their mouths and couldn't speak, thinking that Boss Yan had lost a lot this time.

Yan Changfu also found that his appearance had some impact on morale, and hurriedly made a confident appearance and said: "It's okay, there is a brand of imagination, and quality is the guarantee!"

Employees asked, "How much does it cost?"

Yan Changfu said in a panic: "One thousand two hundred...... Nine hundred and eight! Nine hundred and eight! will be sold for nine hundred and eight!"

After speaking, he hurriedly added: "Hurry up and finish! New products always have to showdown hard indicators, horizontal and vertical this time, after the sale of this model!"

The employees nodded their heads repeatedly. Hurriedly took the leaflet out of the store and distributed it to the computer merchants in the building, striving to take advantage of the popularity of the new product on the market to get rid of this batch of low-priced and high-priced fools as soon as possible.

The young man who unpacked the bag before asked, "Brother Yan." Do you want to install a prototype?"

"Load. ”

Taking advantage of the time to install the machine, Yan Changfu picked up the beautifully printed leaflet, and when he saw the above, he couldn't help but feel angry, and scolded in a low voice: "The display chip of S3 is still a fart VCD! What can it be! What kind of high-speed running 3D games! Isn't this a clear deception! Such an old chip, what can it do except image output!?"

Pick up the graphics card box. Yan Changfu was shocked to see several pictures of the game printed on it, among which there were the latest 3D games such as "DOOM Destroyer Miè Warrior 1st and 2nd Generation", "Need for Speed" and "Deer Hunter".

The young man who installed the machine was called Luo Kai, and when he saw Yan Changfu's uncomfortable face, he explained: "Brother Yan, the box or something, printing is just a propaganda, as long as you can coax people, I guess the person who made the picture has never played these games himself." ”

Thanks to the products of major manufacturers, Yan Changfu is the first batch of players in China to contact 3D games, and he has played all these games printed on the box, and he is still installed on his own computer with a configuration of up to 18,000.

Yan Changfu knows that these games run with his own high-end graphics card of more than 3,000 yuan, and sometimes they are a little stuck, not to mention using a display chip like S3, which is a bad street, and it is estimated that even the game screen can't get in!

Yan Changfu complained: "The key is that I am also reasonable in making money, and I am making money in understanding, this time it is good, it is simply a clear deception!"

Luo Kai laughed and said: "Isn't that what propaganda is all about, you look at those Japanese TV commercials, and there is a person coming out of the screen, which one of those who sells health care products does not say that it can cure all diseases, do you say? Brother Yan, you are too sincere." ”

Yan Changfu muttered: "I don't know when these thousand pieces will be sold." ”

Luo Kai quickly replaced the old card on the display machine in the store with the Tianteng graphics card, lit it up and said: "As long as you can enter the game start screen normally, it is not bragging." As for whether it can run, people don't guarantee it, right? If someone wants to talk about this, let's just say that his CPU is too slow, and it's normal that he can't play. ”

Yan Changfu sighed and said, "Shame on you......"

With the computer quickly booted into Windows 95. Luo Kai inserts the disc, and the driver starts to install automatically.

Luo Kai found that it was automatically installed with the driver, and there was also a software called QQ Super Solution, and he didn't care about it, since it was a free software from the manufacturer. If you don't pretend to be white, you can also increase your experience by going back and trying it out.

After installing the driver, the computer is turned back on.

Luo Kai felt a little wrong at this time, but he couldn't tell what the problem was for a while.

Yan Changfu said on the side: "Do you think that the boot speed has become faster? Why did you enter Windows 95 so quickly?"

"Brother Yan, when you say that, it's really true, it's really a little faster. ”

Yan Changfu came up and picked up the mechanical mouse, operated it, and found that the system was running smoothly.

"Try the game. He muttered to himself.

He then clicked on the display machine's installation of DOOM Warriors 2, the latest 3D game.

"Hey, you can enter the main screen!" Luo Kai said in surprise on the side.

Yan Changfu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that this graphics card was not too deceitful after all.

The next situation surprised Yan Changfu. The game actually ran up, and it didn't get stuck on the main screen as he imagined.

Next, the runtime of DOOM2, a game that uses the latest 3D engine, made Yan Changfu even more dumbfounded.

Not only does the game not lag, but the graphics are smooth, making people feel like they are in action.

Luo Kai's tone became higher because of excitement: "I can really run!

Yan Changfu said excitedly: "It's smooth! It's amazing! It feels faster than my 3,000-eight Imperial League fire-GL! What's going on! How is it possible! This thing's display chip uses an S3!"

Luo Kai said excitedly: "Brother Yan, try another game!"

Yan Changfu hurriedly opened another game "Need for Speed" installed on the display machine, only to see that on the 3D track, the sports car was speeding like electricity, and the ridges and trees formed by the texture swept by both sides, and the thrill of rapid speed was intoxicating.

"What a graphics card! It's a great graphics card! It's such a great game watch! Even if it sells 3,000 copies, someone wants it! It's so fast! It's so fast!"

Yan Changfu didn't know. Because there is no real 3D acceleration card in these years, the graphics card configuration of personal computer users is generally not high, and everyone is willing to spend money on CPU or memory, but often ignore the graphics card. So the graphics card is often the weakest link in the whole computer.

For this reason, in order to make the game run, game manufacturers pinned their hopes on the computing of the processor at the beginning of the design, and the optimization of the processor operation was overwhelmingly higher than the optimization of the graphics card. There are also many game manufacturers who don't care about the quality of the graphics card at all, and leave all the graphics processing to the processor to execute.

And Shadow Overlord is precisely a coprocessor that enhances the floating point operation of the processor. In the face of a large number of graphics jù handy, the watch is naturally better than those high-end graphics cards. And the so-called high-end graphics cards in this year are mainly optimized for CAD engineering modeling and 3D graphic design, and are equipped with a large amount of expensive video memory, which is naturally expensive.

After Yan Changfu tried to play the game, he hurriedly stood up and said to Luo Kai: "When they come back, they have to adjust the price quickly, they can't sell it for nine hundred and eight!

Luo Xingxing sat down and took the mouse, wanting to run the software called "QQ Super Jieba" bundled in the graphics card drive, he was now interested in this software that he had never heard of before, and he was very curious.

Luo Kai double-clicked the icon, which is a silly penguin holding a disc with his hands over the top.

He said to himself: "What does QQ mean?

After the software runs, a small black video frame pops up on the desktop, and there are triangles, double vertical bars, and square shapes on the operation panel below the frame, and there is a line of small words embedded in the video frame-"QQ Super Solution, VCD Super Error Correction, Super Decoding, Bad Disc Buster". (To be continued.) )