A TRULY GREAT GRAPHICS CARD (Creative Blaster RIVA TNT)

Member Name: pow1983

Product:	Creative Blaster RIVA TNT
Date:	03/10/00 (1117 review reads)
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Advantages: Fast, Cheap, Great Chip

Disadvantages: Creative Drivers.

I have had this graphics card for 2 years now and I trust it to bits! Creative aren’t really graphics card people but they sure did an excellent job on this card. This card is not "out of date" at all. Don’t be fooled that the more memory you have on a graphics card the better it is, ok ok 4mb is not enough but 32MB is way too much!! 16 MB is fine and this graphics card uses it best. If you have an old graphics card and are looking for a cheap new one then this is the one!!
It has 16MB of memory which is fine for todays and tomorrows software. Games like this graphics card as it is good at using DirectX and Direct3D!
I have to tell you that if you do decide to get this graphics card then install the NVidia Detonator Drivers, Creative are very bad at these graphics drivers, I only have Creative Nvidia Graphics cards in all 5 of my machines so I should know!
The Nvidia Chip is really something, unfortunately I can’t tell you how good it is as I need diagrams to explain further but its fast and reliable.

There are some fantastic websites out there devoted to the Riva TNT as it is a truly excellent Graphics cards!!
www.riva128.com
www.rivaextreme.com
planetriva.com

and hundreds more!!

The price of this graphics card is amazing if you don’t buy it from a major retailer such as Dixons, try and buy it from Special Reserve and if they are expensive then buy from me (not second hand, new!!) as a last resort.

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