The quality of video capture on the V7700 Deluxe is mediocre. It is perfectly fine for recording your favorite TV-show or getting a screen capture to show to someone, but for presentations or archiving family memories, the capture hardware is just not up to the job. These two screen captures, the first from a V7700 Deluxe and the second from a Matrox G400-TV, show striking differences between the two cards. The ASUS shot appears to have captured with the next frame in the middle of drawing and has poor contrast (look at Mariah's cheekbones, you can see them easily with the G400-TV). We saw no setting to get the V7700 Deluxe to capture on a complete frame. The G400-TV shot looks much, much better.

These shots were taken from a VHS cassette playing live and are not of the exact same frame. Also, in the V7700 Deluxe's defense, the contrast and brightness settings were at their defaults. With some work, we expect you could improve the image.

Of course, the most exciting part about the GeForce2 GTS is its awesome fill rate and texel rate. With four pipelines capable of drawing one pixel per clock with two textures, the card can draw an awesome 800 m/pixels per second and 1600 m/texels per second. With multi-textured games like Quake III Arena, awesome gains in speed can be realized.