The 3D Prophet is the fastest GeForce2 card The Tech Zone has
ever tested. Running stock at 220Mhz core and 360Mhz memory it easily defeated
any other GeForce2 card running at stock speed. With 64 Megs of DDR RAM on
board, the card is ready to handle any high texture game you throw at it.
The Hercules 3D Prophet II is highly overclockable. With just a
few small mods, I was able to run it stable at 250Mhz core and 400Mhz memory. No
other GeForce2 card that I have tested has been able to do this (I was able to
get the Elsa Gladiac ram to 400Mhz with the use of AMK RAM Sinks but the core
would not go above 240Mhz). Running at 250/400, the 3D Prophet became the first
card to do an amazing 2 Gigatextel fill rate. This resulted in
sky high Quake 3 benchmarks.
The image quality was great but the reference 5.22 drivers make
the sky in Quake 3 look really ugly. There is support for FSAA. However, I don't
really see the benefit of it. The performance hit is too great to use. Besides,
when the card can run your games at 1600x1200 at over 60 frames per second, you
don't need FSAA. DVD playback was very good. The movies I ran using Power DVD
never skipped a beat. Picture quality was also top notch.
Hercules has done a great job with this card. The RAM sink now
works to remove heat instead of trapping it. The GTS cores are top quality units
that overclock really well, as is the DDR RAM. The only thing bad about the 3D
Prophet is the price.
At $449, this is one of the most expensive video cards you can
buy. For the extra $100 over the cost of a 32 Meg Prophet you get a card with
much higher performance and DVI output. If you want the highest performing
GeForce2 card and money is no object, the Hercules 3D Prophet II 64 megs is it.
There isn't any other card that can match it at this time.
The Goods
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The fastest stock GeForce2 card
available.
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The most overclockable GeForce2 card
we've tested
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The best looking GeForce2 card we've ever
tested
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Good DVD performance
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64 Megs of RAM
The Bads
Rating:
9/10
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