Installation of the
Annihilator 2 is as easy as any other GeForce2 video
card. Just pop into the AGP slot, fire up the comp and
load up the drivers and the Creative software if you
want that too. For this review, I installed the
Annihilator 2 using nVidia reference drivers 5.22. The
test computer specs are:
- P3-550E @ 825Mhz
- Abit VT6X4
- Enlight 7327 Case With 300 Watts PS
- 128 Megs
Corsair PC-133 SDRAM
- Pioneer 16X DVD ROM
- Maxtor 40 GIG 7200 RPM HD
- Aureal Vortex SQ2500 PCI
Sound Card
- Smarfast PCI NIC
- Windows 98 SE
The first benchmark I ran was 3D Mark 2000:
The 3D Mark score is pretty much dead on for a stock
GeForce2 GTS card. It's worlds away from 4,206 I got
with a Voodoo 5 5500.
Quake 3 Benchmark Setup
Resolutions: 800x600, 1024x768,
1600x1200
Graphic mode: HIGH QUALITY
GL Driver: DEFAULT
GL extensions: ON
Color : 16 Bit
Full screen: ON
Lighting: LIGHTMAP
Geometric detail: HIGH
Texture detail: 4
Texture quality: 32 BIT
Texture Filter: BILINEAR |
Game Options
Marks on walls: NO
Ejecting brass: NO
Dynamic lighting: NO
Identify target: YES
High quality sky: YES |
Quake 3 in 16 bit color
There is no doubt that the Creative
Annihilator 2 is one fast video card. The speed is what
I have come to expect from GeForce2 GTS based card.
Currently, they're the only cards on the market that can
run Quake 3 at over 60 frame per second at 1600x1200.
16 Bit Vs 32 Bit
At lower resolutions,
there is nearly no slow down when running at 32 bit.
However, start cranking up the resolution and be prepare
to see quite a drop in frame rate. At 1600x1200 there
is nearly a 50% slowdown.
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