Although not owning one myself, I have had time to test the performance of the Asus nVidia Geforce II GTS. First thoughts of mine were to the sheer speed of this card. My friend who was running one with an Athlon 650 was achieving phenomenal frame rates in the newest games on top detail levels. I use a TNT2 currently, and although you may think as long as the image frame rate is enough to look smooth, an extra 40 fps is really astonishing. The picture quality is marginally better than that of my TNT2, but the increased frame rate really brings things to life. Frame rate and general 3D performance is made so exceptional because the new generation of ...  Read the complete review

When I was building my current system a few months ago, the GeForce 3 has just been launched, meaning that the price of GeForce 2s plummeted. Due to this, I was able to pick up an Asus V7700 Deluxe for 130 pounds - I chose the deluxe version because of the extras. The card itself is based on nVidia's reference design, with 32MB of DDR RAM and a circular heatsink and fan on the GPU. The backplate has all the connectors - a normal D-SUB VGA port, TV-in and out, plus a jack for the 3D glasses. Installation was as expected - pull out the old card, plus in the V7700, switch on and install drivers once Windows has loaded. Once the system had rebooted, I was able ...  Read the complete review