Just a few years ago, the equivalent of a millennium in computer years, video card manufacturers tended to each have their own custom card design. This resulted in significant speed differences between the products of different manufacturers. And even with the GeForce2 GTS, different manufacturers could use different forms of cooling.

But with such bleeding edge speeds, NVIDIA had to go a bit further in their design control than they have previously. The layouts and tolerances of the GeForce2 Ultra are so tight, you can expect virtually no difference between cards of different manufacturers other than the connectors they build on the back of the card. And the heat concerns are so great with the GeForce2 Ultra that NVIDIA has also engineered a standard cooling solution that manufacturers may have to comply with.

With a Kermit Green heat sink and fan combo as well as matching black-finned memory heat sinks, one for each row of four Midnight Gray 230MHz DDR SDRAM devices, the GeForce2 Ultra is both stylish and cool.