SNiper2 TNT2 M64 Review
Specifications:
| Bus System: |
4X / 2X AGP Bus |
| Graphics Controller: |
nVIDIA RIVA TNT 2 M64
128-bit internal data bus, 64-bit memory bus |
| Display Memory: |
32 / 16MB High Speed Memory |
| Refresh (Vertical) : |
60Hz ~ 200Hz |
| Max. Dot (Pixel) Rate: |
300MHz RAMDAC |
| Graphics Standard: |
Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectVideo, Active
X, DirectX 5/6, OpenGLR ICD (Windows NT), QuickDraw |
| 3D Graphics Engine: |
Alpha Blending, Anisotropic Filtering,
Anti-Aliasing, Bilinear Filtering, Bump Mapping, Environment Mapping, Fogging, Gouraud
Shading, Hardware Triangle Setup, MIP Mapping, Prespective Correction, Specular
Highlights, Subpixel Precision, Floating Point Geometry, Texture Mapping, Transparency,
Trilinear Filtering, TwiN Texel Engine, Z-Buffering |
| Video Playback: |
- MPEG, MPEG-2, Indeo & Cinepak
- Multi-tap X & Y scaling and filtering
- Color space conversion
- Optional Tv-out
- Optional Video-in
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| Operating System: |
Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows
NT 4.0 |
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The Power Color SNiper M64 came with a very tiny
heatsink on its TNT2 M64 chip. The heatsink is so small I couldn't even screw a fan onto
it. To cool the card during the overclock testing, I aimed a couple of Radio Shack blower
fans at the card.
Installation is straight forward. Open your case,
insert card, turn on computer and wait for Windows to ask you for the drivers. However
Windows never asked me for the drivers when I rebooted with the SNiper. This was because
the card I had in the comp before was a Viper TNT2 Ultra and the NVIDIA 2.08 reference
driver I was using will work with the SNiper. When I looked at the display properties I
notice that the name of the card changed from NVIDIA TNT2 to NVIDIA TNT2 Model 64
Next page: How fast is this thing?
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