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Guillemot 3D Prophet

Guillemot 3D Prophet

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Geforce - to T&L or not to T&L
Review: A really nice card with a lot of features. One of them is of course the lot debated Transform & Lighting technology. While everyone is talking about it, it is not really that important as no current game really support it. Unfortunately! I hope that will change in the future! I really liked the tv-out which I used to watch DVD-movies using my computer.

To sum it all up: this is a nice peace of hardware and I believe it will carry it's weight long in to the future.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Don't bother!
Review: Don't bother buying this card if you have an Athlon. This card crashes TRIBES incessantly. It even causes problems right when the GUI kicks in for Windows 98. This card is fine if all you do is play Quake III. Don't even attempt to play a Glide game on this. Save your money and stick with the real leader, 3dfx.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: GeForce is the gamers card?
Review: First of all the GeForce is a realy fast in 3D games, but that is all.You may experience a lot of problems until you start your favorite game. Mixed out textures or total crash is posible if you do not have the latest patches for the games. The quality of the TV out is the worst of all video cards I have ever seen, even if you are using the S-out conector.It is imposible to match the picture on the TV screen.The image is near to MPEG1 than to DVD. That is all, the GeForce is fast(very fast) but I prefer Voodoo 3 3000- it is a litle bit slower but is not so expensive an there is no problems at all.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: It overheats!
Review: I actually have the DDR version but it is now fried. I simply had it too close to the soundcard and played Ultima 9, bad idea! and it overheated and fried. I could tell because the graphics got fuzzy like mist or snow, especially when I used my mouse. If you get this card do NOT overclock it! Fatal error! As for performance it is no better than the Diamond Viper 770(non Ultra) that is a TNT2 card. The Viper has given me no problems it does not overheat even next to the PCI sound card. I would give the Prophet more stars but the DDR version is supposed to be better and it is worse than my old card. Don't play Ultima 9 and keep your TNT2(if you have one)

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: It overheats!
Review: I actually have the DDR version but it is now fried. I simply had it too close to the soundcard and played Ultima 9, bad idea! and it overheated and fried. I could tell because the graphics got fuzzy like mist or snow, especially when I used my mouse. If you get this card do NOT overclock it! Fatal error! As for performance it is no better than the Diamond Viper 770(non Ultra) that is a TNT2 card. The Viper has given me no problems it does not overheat even next to the PCI sound card. I would give the Prophet more stars but the DDR version is supposed to be better and it is worse than my old card. Don't play Ultima 9 and keep your TNT2(if you have one)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best Bang for your buck!
Review: I bought this card a few weeks ago, and I have to tell you, that I have never played games at this speed, or with this much eye candy! Sure, you can get the Voodoo 5 for a little more, but then you'de be stuck with sub par OpenGL playback. And if you haven't noticed, most games are moving away from the proprietary 3DFX glide. Get this card, and you WILL go home happy!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Bad card under Windows 2000 and Unreal Tournament
Review: I bought this card after owning a Creative TNT2 (which I was very happy with) expecting the same level of compatibility with my games (most notably Unreal Tournament) under Windows 2000. Not the case UT looked like hell and only ran under D3D (bad bad Open GL is usually much better). I needed to obtain some kind of firmware update which after downloading it I discovered in the README file that it would only run under DOS compatibility mode which does not exist under Windows NT and 2000. What did the company tell me: get a DOS boot disk. Where? I don't have a DOS based machine -- so instead I returned the card and got a Voodoo 5 which runs UT GREAT! and is very stable. Don't waste your time with this piece of garbage.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: NEUTRAL
Review: I've done ALOT of research on the newest and brightest of cards and this happens to be the "choice" of the online reviews.I've also got friends that "always have to compete with the jones'" and they also rave about the sli stuff that "brings out the detail that the programers didn't count on." HA! If your not getting this card for cosmetic ego boosting upgrade I would wait abit for the "wooops suddenly not the best" price drop. Although please dont buy a VOODOO5 5500 or the "oh my GOD gonna be expensive" VOODOO5 6000.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Pretty good Card, but there are better ones.
Review: It's significantly faster than the TNT2 Ultra, and performs just as well as a GeForce DDR at lower resolutions. Unfortunately, having normal SDRAM really hurts the Prophet at higher resolutions where memory bandwidth is an issue. For this price, you might have to consider the geforce gts card instead.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Well...
Review: Take into consideration several things about why you would buy this kind of card or not. Start with this, does it support Glide? small but important, as most games use it, and some games (like unreal tournament) won't play without it. Second, can you get something better for a relatively close price? think about 3DFX's Voodoo 5 5500 AGP. It has 64mb of video ram, against the 32 on this board, and a very nice dual set of video processors for $300. And 3DFX is know to support Open GL, Direct 3D and GLIDE! . My final word? if you don't mind about not having enough memory on your video card and not being able to play some games, go for this one. Otherwise, i'd probably go for the Voodoo 5 6000! (which by the way has 128mb video ram and 4 3D processors to make up a very powerfull board)


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