Creative 3D Annihilator

Newest Review: ... to upgrade as I thought £99.99 was a good price for that particular card. The specifications for the card (the important ... more

... ones, anyway) are thus: RAMDAC runs at 350Mhz, memory of 32Mb, Direct X 7 compatible and has a T & L engine. Theoretically it’s capable of handling 15,000,000 triangles per second with a peak fill rate of 480 million pixels per second. Mean anything to you? No, thought not! I ordered the OEM model from scan (i.e. drivers, but no free games), and I installed it immediately. Installation was easy, and painless – I extracted my old cards, and inserted the new one into the AGP slot. Upon rebooting the comput...more

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Creative 3D Annihilator: Annihilates the opponsition! (485 words)
by - written on 26/02/01 (Very useful, 77 readings)
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I know it’s fairly long in the tooth now, and with GeForce2 cards now coming under £100, you’d wonder why I am writing a review of a card that’s over a year old. Well, the answer is this: the GeForce2 cards are cutting edge, and if you have a fairly old computer, then you may not want to pay the extra money for something that may not operate optimally, or at all! I ordered my GeForce Annihilator card from scan.co.uk, and at the time, it cost me £99.99. Up to that point, I’d been using a S3 Virge with 12 Mb Voodoo2 (also, I was running a 300Mhz K6-2) and while happy with that set up, I decided to upgrade as I thought £99.99 was a ... Read the complete review

Fast and hot enough to cook eggs (341 words)
by - written on 07/02/01 (Very useful, 60 readings)
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I was given one of these, yup – given! It replaced a (fully working) TNT2 Ultra that was incompatible with my motherboard (I got a new motherboard as well, this was just compensation) and I’m very pleased with it. In 3D games my PIII-450 is faster than my friends PIII-600 with a TNT2 in it. Bizarrely the Geforce has already by superseded by the Geforce2 GTS. Nvidia may have a policy of releasing new hardware every six months, but no game has really taken advantage of the Geforces potential yet, apart from it’s raw speed. It’s like driving a Ferrari flat out in 2nd gear all the time. The Geforce has what Nvidia like to call a GPU, this is capable ... Read the complete review

Creative 3D Annihilator: Good card but watch compatibilty (171 words)
by - written on 11/11/00 (Useful, 112 readings)
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I bought the Creative Annihilator graphics card after a I was recommended it by a friend. I had a Creative Banshee card before that so the Annihilator was a biggish step up. I have a Gigabyte motherboard which only supports 2x agp. It also has big problems with the voltage that the Annihilator card requires. When I play heavy graphic games like Quake 3 it will play fine but after about 20 minutes of playing my computer will freeze and I have to reboot. This problem is a known problem with the Gigabyte GA 5AZ motherboards so be careful if you are to get this graphics card. For the time I am able to play the game it is good. This graphics card has come down in ... Read the complete review