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Creative Labs 3DB6971 Blaster Annihilator Pro

Creative Labs 3DB6971 Blaster Annihilator Pro

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One serious polygon-crunching monster...
Review: This is the greatest video card on the market (unless you don't mind waiting a little while and dropping 600 bucks on a Voodoo 5 6000.) This card features a revolutionary GPU (Geometry processing unit). Nvidia's GeForce 256 chipset is a new 256 chip that incorporates transform and lighting on the board. These two elements were origianlly processed by the CPU. Now that they are on the card, your CPU will have some extra power to process other game elements.

The big feature on the Annihilator Pro is its 32 megs of DDR(Double Data Rate) RAM. This RAM can process 2 calculations per CPU cycle, making it twice as fast as any other card currently out there. Plus, it supports AGP 4x and FastWrites, so if you've got a motherboard with an AGP 4x slot, you can widen that graphics bottleneck even further.

At present only a limited amount of games support GeForce's onboard T&L capabilities, so your older games won't be able to take full advantage of the cards features, but as many software developers are beginning to support onboard T&L this will soon change. You could say the 3d Annihilator Pro is an investment towards the future of gaming.

Now there is some important consumer information I feel obligated to let you in on.

YOU MUST HAVE A MOTHER BOARD THAT SUPPORTS AT LEAST AGP 2X, IF YOU DO NOT, THE CARD WILL NOT GET ENOUGH JUICE FROM THE MOTHERBOARD AND WILL SIMPLY NOT WORK.

Any of the other reviews you might have read on this page about the poor folk who say their power source is inadequate are mistaken, so don't worry yourselves with those reviews. JUST MAKE SURE YOUR MOTHERBOARD SUPPORTS AT LEAST AGP 2X AND YOU'LL BE FINE.

YOU CAN FIND OUT IF YOUR MOTHERBOARD IS ADEQUATE BY LOOKING IN THE REFERENCE MANUAL PROVIDED WITH YOUR COMPUTER. IF YOU'VE LOST THIS MANUAL, YOU SHOULD CALL YOUR RETAILER AND FIND OUT. REMEMBER, AN INFORMED CONSUMER IS ALMOST NEVER DISAPPOINTED.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Video Board on the Market
Review: Well what is there not to say about the Annihilator. nVidia 256 GPU is the ultimate T&L engine. The DDRAM is the fastest memmory out there. The fill and refresh rates for 3D and 2D graphics are top notch. Not to mention that the RAMDAC is running at a whopping 350 MHZ. 2 Thumbs up.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: What's all the fuss about? Disappointing card.
Review: What is the big deal with all the GeForce cards? I've read many reviews everywhere raving about these cards, but apparently they only help if you're playing Quake 3, Unreal Tournament or Half-Life, since those are the games used for framerate benchmarks. Well, if you're not playing those games I'd pass on this card. I for one play Baldur's Gate, NFS, and Drakan right now, and in a nutshell Baldur's Gate sees no difference, NFS High Stakes was slower & fuzzier, and Drakan was only slightly smoother when I upgraded from my Voodoo3 2000 to this card. I just hope that BG II, Diablo 2 and Icewind Dale will make use of the benefits of this card. I'm running an Athlon 600 on an FIC SD11 board, 128mb ram, Syncmaster 17Glsi. For all I've read I should have seen vast increases on my system, but it isn't happening! If you're going from an old video card then it might be worth it, otherwise I'd wait. Some sites talk about the next big thing in video cards coming, but I think its just more lip service, they called this card the latest & greatest, and I'm sorely disappointed.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: What's all the fuss about? Disappointing card.
Review: What is the big deal with all the GeForce cards? I've read many reviews everywhere raving about these cards, but apparently they only help if you're playing Quake 3, Unreal Tournament or Half-Life, since those are the games used for framerate benchmarks. Well, if you're not playing those games I'd pass on this card. I for one play Baldur's Gate, NFS, and Drakan right now, and in a nutshell Baldur's Gate sees no difference, NFS High Stakes was slower & fuzzier, and Drakan was only slightly smoother when I upgraded from my Voodoo3 2000 to this card. I just hope that BG II, Diablo 2 and Icewind Dale will make use of the benefits of this card. I'm running an Athlon 600 on an FIC SD11 board, 128mb ram, Syncmaster 17Glsi. For all I've read I should have seen vast increases on my system, but it isn't happening! If you're going from an old video card then it might be worth it, otherwise I'd wait. Some sites talk about the next big thing in video cards coming, but I think its just more lip service, they called this card the latest & greatest, and I'm sorely disappointed.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome
Review: WOW, This Video Card is awesome, i have never seen such a good video card in my life. This thing is mega powerful in QUAKE 3 and it kicks the arse of a VOODOO. I reckommend this to everyone


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