Creative Annihilator 2 Ultra Review

Well, this is what you wanted to know. Just how much speed do I get with a $500 video card? To find out, I installed the green Ultra into my personal gaming machine which is made of the following:

Installation of the Annihilator 2 Ultra is as simple as any other plug and play device. Turn off computer, install video card, turn on computer, install drivers. Total time, less than 5 minutes. For these Quake 3 benchmarks, I use reference 6.31 Win 2000 drivers from nVidia.


Quake 3 Normal Setting

I used the two time demo provided by Quake 3. Just for fun, I tossed in the NV15 demo I got from nVidia. This demo is a super high polygon demo with something like 100,000 polygons per screen. The NV15 demo has crushed other video cards but the Creative Ultra was able to run at over 50 frames per seconds! Normal Quake 3 setting proved to be nothing more than a cake walk for this Ultra, with frame rates pushing nearly 200 FPS.


Quake 3 High Quality Setting

Normally, switching from normal to high quality setting will drop frame rate by up to 40% but it had nearly no effects on the Annihilator Ultra as frame rate remained sky high. The NV15 demo only drop 1 frame per second in the switch.


Custom Setting

This custom setting is how I play Quake 3. This benchmark was taken with the resolution cranked to 1600x1200 and color depth and texture at 32 bit. Everything else was "max" out. Check it out! The first video card The Tech Zone has ever tested to run over 60 FPS with these settings. 

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