If you're looking for
speed, you came to the right place with the Creative
Annihilator 2. For the person who wants speed and great
visual quality without any fancy TV out, video in, 3D
glasses, or their video card to make coffee, the
Creative Annihilator 2 is as good as it gets. This card
is super fast. However you won't really notice it until
you start running your games at ultra high resolutions.
Those who decided to wait for the price
of GeForce2 cards to come down got their wish. The
Annihilator 2 is the less expensive GeForce2 card to hit
the market. Still at $299 (you can
find it for less
here), it's not cheap. Owners of GeForce 256
cards may want to hold out until the next generation of
video cards is introduced. The performance advantage of
the GTS over a standard GeForce really only shows up at
higher end resolutions. If you don't run, or if your
monitor can't run, at this resolution then it doesn't
make sense to buy a card that your monitor can't handle.
The current reference 5.22 drivers
supports FSAA. While this is a nice feature to have I
found the performance hit to be too great to use. Given
a choice between running 1600x1200 without FSAA or
800x600 with FSAA, I take 1600x1200 any day. Also the
implementation of FSAA by nVidia is not as well done as
3dfx.
I found the Annihilator to be highly
overclockable. The card runs rock stable at 235Mhz core
and 375Mhz memory with just the addition of The Card
Cooler. Adding in
AMK RAM Sinks and Core Sink is sure to improve that
even more.
I really like the Creative Annihilator
2. This is among the fastest video card The Tech Zone
has ever tested. This is best $299 video card we've
tested. But remember, a video card is all you get. There
are no TV/Video out, DVI Out, 3D Glasses, or game
bundle. Then again, none of that is really needed.
The Goods
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Really really
fast
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It's a GeForce
card
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Very
overclockable
The Bads
Our Rating: 8.5/10
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