Creative 3D Blaster GeForce2 Ultra

There is only one word which describes this card, and that is fast. It powers through any games available today, and I'd imagine OpenGL stuff as well, judging by the ludicrous frame rates in Quake3. You do, however, need a fast machine to get the best out of it. If you have something slower than around 600-700Mhz then you won't notice much difference between this and the Geforce 2 GTS which is cheaper and let's face it is still a very fast card. It has 64MB of DDR SDRAM. This has twice the bandwidth of regular RAM, and is as much as many computers had only 1-2 years ago. It was easy to install, simply plug in, and install the ...  Read the complete review

Nvidia have taken the critics views of the GeForce 2 onboard, and all credit to them for doing so. In case you have not read my review on the Geforce 2, the problem was basically that the memory on the original geforce 2 cards was far to slow. Or to put it another way as Nvidia would prefer, the chip was just to fast for the current memory available at the moment. Ever with DDR (Double data rate) technology the memory bandwidth was simply not there. All that has changed now with the release of the Geforce 2 Ultra. Being lucky enough to be in the computer business, I have been able to make a system with the Creative Geforce 2 Ultra and its basically awesome ...  Read the complete review

This is actually an opinion on the similar model, the Creative GeForce 256 Pro, which is my madel. The main difference between this card and the standard GeForce is that this card (pro) uses fast (high bandwidth) DDR (double-data rate) memory. What this means is that the GeForce and the DDR GeForce cards produce near-identicle frame rates at low resolutions, but as the frame rate increases, the DDR cards flex their muscle and achieve very playable frame rates at resolutions as high as 1600 x 1200 In my veryspecial quake3 benchmark test, it proved to be very fast indeed. It clocked a very respectable frame rate of 40.2fps with full 32-bit rendering, ...  Read the complete review