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September'2001 3Digest -
NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR 64bit

By Andrew Worobyew

This chip is presented by ASUS AGP-V6600MX, 32 MBytes, AGP videocard.

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Features:

Wasn't overclocked.

We've got a "sell anyhow" card from ASUSTEK here. Nobody buys old GeForce256 SDR 64 MBytes cards, so they halved the memory, simultaneously spoiling the bus, as it was designed for 16-bit microchips only (16*4=64bit). In addition memory clock rate was lowered. So we get a modern variant of Riva TNT2M64 with HW TCL, Bump Mapping, Cube Texturing, trilinear filtering support, and the price will not be low, in ASUSTEK traditions. But somebody still might buy it.

For the 20th of September'2001 the latest drivers from NVIDIA are 14.70 and 21.81.

We were unable to test this card on Pentium III platform as after replacing Chaintech 6OJV motherboard with new 6OJV2 revision it turned out that AGP slot had special latches, preventing AGP Pro cards from installation.

I advise you to read about S3TC influence on speed and perfomance, because S3TC realization in OpenGL is important nowadays, and it shows good results. Especially on this 'stub'.

There are no 3D quality problems in any game. You can compare screenshots with the reference ones (NVIDIA GeForce3).

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2D quality is good enough. Only in 1600x1200 you can see some "soaping" effects on some monitors. The majority of users will be satisfied. And I shall mark that 6.* version drivers are not compatible with the software for sound cards based on Yamaha processor, as well as with SoftXG100 software synthesizer. Start or Close Window buttons can be spoiled by some "garbage" in 2D mode. [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive]