With the simple little TNTClk program, I managed to wind the V’s core speed up to MHz MHz hung the computer, and I couldn’t be bothered seeing if some intermediate value was stable, since the difference is minuscule. If you just want to play games, a cheap OEM card delivers much better value for money, and isn’t really all that much slower, either. The Crusher demo is so named, of course, because it’s a worst case scenario. The image quality difference is not a large one; in Quake 2 you have to look hard to see the vague banding on walls in order to tell you’re in 16 bit mode, and in a real game you don’t have much time for that. So if you’re considering a V already, the Ultra won’t cost you a whole lot more. Plain TNT2s have a stock clock speed of MHz for the core and MHz for the memory – some come with a faster stock clock speed, and many can run significantly faster if overclocked with a program like Powerstrip from Entech Taiwan, here or the excellent little TNTClk utility. Refresh rate, measured in Hertz Hz , is the number of times per second the screen is “repainted” with the image.

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But if you’re upgrading from some completely different graphics card, not another TNT board which Windows in its infinite asis can’t tell from the new one, the problem shouldn’t arise.

The 32Mb RAM of top-end TNT2 boards isn’t terribly useful even for these games, asus agp-v3800m it comes in handy for 3D rendering, allowing high-detail, high-speed previews of the asus agp-v3800m that could only be done by very pricey workstations a few years ago.

Does much the same thing as Direct3D and Glidebut does it on any computer you care to name.

TNT2 cards are all very well. It’s referred to as depth, and sometimes as bit depth, because of the concept agp-3v800m overlapping, stacked “bitplanes”, planar arrays of ones and zeroes that, agp-v38000m, define the colour of each pixel. Forget whatever brilliant auto-detected driver Windows has installed, unless it by some miracle works.

Some, like Incoming, asus agp-v3800m in different versions for different colour depths. Refresh rate, measured in Hertz Hzis the number of times per second the screen is “repainted” with the image.

Installing an Ultra card is no harder avp-v3800m installing a plain TNT2, which is in turn no harder than installing any other AGP graphics card. If this doesn’t work, nuking your Windows directory and reinstalling probably will. It must also do it at a reasonable refresh rate. Switching to the VGA driver before you remove the asus agp-v3800m card, which is what various AGP graphics card manuals suggest, asuw seem to help.

OpenGL games inherit the colour depth of asus agp-v3800m desktop when you run them; if you’re running 16 bit in Asus agp-v3800m, that’s what the game’ll be.

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Monstrous RAM overclocking isn’t useful, though; it’s the core speed that really matters. Games with funkier engines that do fog mixing and similar asus agp-v3800m benefit more visually from 24 asus agp-v3800m 32 bit, but since going for 16 bit will let you run a higher resolution at the same speed, most gamers opt for fewer colours.

Cards that do more than 24 bit use the extra qsus for mixing channels and asus agp-v3800m funky stuff – 24 bit is more colours than the eye can discern already.

So if you’re considering a V already, the Ultra won’t cost you a whole lot more. The overclocked V got a Direct3D score of megapixels per second, and an OpenGL score of megapixels per second; the overclocked Ultra scored andrespectively. If your desk does asus agp-v3800m groan under the weight of ssus multi-kilobuck monitor, rest asus agp-v3800m that as far as 2D goes, any old TNT2 can pump asus agp-v3800m more pixels than your screen can clearly display.

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Asus agp-v3800m I suspect a lot of the people agp-b3800m to buy an Ultra card just ’cause it’s the fastest would do better by spending half as much on a slower plain TNT2, and putting asus agp-v3800m difference assu more RAM or a faster processor. The image quality difference is not a large one; in Quake 2 you have to look hard to see the vague banding on walls in order to tell you’re in 16 bit mode, and in a real game you don’t have much time for aggp-v3800m.

TNT2s are better suited to newer games, like the asus agp-v3800m Quake 3. You get the 3D asus agp-v3800m, of course, but that’s about it for extras. It asus agp-v3800m the new card, but it keeps enough of the old driver files that the new card won’t work properly. Click Next, asus agp-v3800m the “Display a list The TNT-1, at bydoesn’t manage much more than 20fps in Crusher.

You can use the V with nVidia’s reference Detonator drivers, but its fancy video and 3D glasses features won’t work. agp-v3080m

I ran the test over and over, though, agp-vv3800m didn’t see an improvement. It zsus managed better than 52 frames per second in by resolution, asus agp-v3800m is the highest my asus agp-v3800m old 17 inch monitor can handle! The more bitplanes there are, the more bits per pixel, and the more bits per pixel, the more ag;-v3800m colours – number of asus agp-v3800m equals two to the power of the number of bitplanes.

The V is happy to overclock. The Crusher demo is so named, of course, because it’s a worst case scenario. For the full rundown on the quality of the ASUS package, check out the three-card comparison; in essence, it seems to be a perfectly well made card, with a fan on its main chip which is pretty much essential asus agp-v3800m Ultra cardsand the supporting stuff is Abp-v3800m, although the driver could be better – and is, with the latest, downloadable version.

What you get Apart from the clock speed, the V Ultra package is the same as the V Deluxe package, which in turn differs asus agp-v3800m from the VTVR I review in the three-card comparison here.

AGP lets the graphics board rapidly access main memory for texture storage.