SNiper2 TNT2 M64 Review

Conclusion & Rating

The Power Color SNiper2 TNT2 M64 offers very fast performance and excellent visual quality at a really cheap price. It's highly overclockable and can run just as fast as a normal TNT2 in most games. The only problem being the one game it sucks at is Quake 3! To me this is simply not acceptable since Quake 3 is the Tech Zone's LAN party game.

To make the card work well with Quake 3 I had to back the settings down to a level I'm really not use to. When you get use to gaming on a 620Mhz P3 with Viper Ultra running at 185/243, playing Quake 3 at 640x480 is really not that much fun. Needless to say I lost a few rounds during the last LAN party with the SNiper. Hmmm, you really can't do much sniping with this card at Quake 3 considering the resolution you'll have to run to get good speed. :-)

So, should you get this card? That depends. If you love playing Quake 3 as much as I do then this card is a no go. Even a normal TNT can beat it. I don't know why it's so slow on this one game. It must be the 64bit memory bus. It's runs great on everything else.

If you don't care much for Quake 3, then I can highly recommend this card for you. For $100 it's a steal! And when overclocked, it really comes into its own. Just don't use this card against me thinking you're going to win if you come to our LAN parties. :-)

The Goods

• Great price

• Very fast card when overclocked

• Really overclockable

• Excellent visual quality

• 300 Mhz RAMDAC

• 32 megs of ram

• 32 bit rendering runs good on eveything but Quake 3

• AGP 4X

The Bads

• No game bundle

• Slow memory

• Sucks at Quake 3

• Only 64 bit memory bus

Our rating: 7.5/10

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