With an internal 300MHz RAMDAC the TNT2 is no slouch in the arenas of eye pleasing high refresh rates and smooth Win98 desktop transitions.

Working with the ViperV770 Ultra in a demanding 1600x1200x32bpp desktop environment proved again to us that nVidia has silenced the ghosts of their past (the Riva 128) permanently with their newest chipset design.

Verdict: Buyers will find that the ViperV770 more than meets their 2D needs, even in the high-spec CAD-level sector.

No Sharky Extreme video accelerator review would be complete without the accompanying benchmark results, and we've tested the ViperV770 at a variety of resolutions and color depths. We've also included both the 150MHz default performance levels of the Viper as well as the results from tests performed at its maximum speed setting of 175MHz (although as we noted earlier we weren't able to stabilize the card at that speed for longer than 40 minutes).

3D Game Benchmarks


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Synthetic 3D Benchmarks

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Here's a look at the systems we used to evaluate the ViperV770:

Test System:
ABIT BX6 R2.0 (Slot-1 - Intel 440BX)
Intel Pentium III 500Mhz Processor
Goldstar 128MB PC-133 SDRAM
Hercules Dynamite TNT2 Ultra 32MB AGP 2D/3D Accelerator
Adaptec 2490UW Ultra-Wide SCSI Controller
IBM Ultrastar 9 8.4GB UWSCSI HD
Diamond Monster Sound MX300 3D PCI Sound Card
Plextor SCSI 32X CD-ROM
Win98 OSR 1.0

Test Conditions and Specifications: All tests were run a total of five times with the results averaged to determine final score (the highest and lowest scores obtained were disqualified.)

VSync was OFF for all video tests, allowing maximum frame rate performance.

**Incoming Test Notes: Rage software along with Sharky Extreme's Hardware Staff would like to remind readers that Incoming has been proven to possibly provide erratic results when tested with certain video cards and drivers. We present our own Incoming results here along with a host of other performance benchmarks in the hopes that we can offer the most well rounded look at a product's performance level.