Power Color Sniper 2 Video Card

Specifications:

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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
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0

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

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