ELSA has always been a 'safe bet' for NVIDIA. Ever since the introduction of the RIVA 128 chipset back in 1997, ELSA has been one of the first board manufacturers to use NVIDIA's technology. The ERAZOR 'brand name' is used exclusively with NVIDIA chipsets and the TNT2 is no exception, thus we have the TNT2 based ERAZOR III line of products. Although, the company is rarely first to market, they are certainly one of NVIDIA's favored customers with regard to Europe, being based in Germany. The onslaught of TNT2 products continues as we put the ELSA ERAZOR III offering 'with a difference' under the Sharky Extreme microscope (which sits next to the Oscilloscope & Bananarama pic). The difference being that this particular board makes use of those 3D-specs (actually called the 3D REVELATOR) that you probably wouldn't want to get caught dead walking in London's trendy Covent Garden (go for Oakley's there) but might well take to playing a few D3D games with instead.

At CeBIT 99, when ELSA announced only one consumer version of the TNT2, a 32MB card with or without 3D specs, we were slightly taken aback. ELSA also has a 16MB version of the ERAZOR III up their sleeve, which is going to be used purely for OEM purposes (also we weren't exactly 'taken aback either'... but we had you there anyway eh?). Nevertheless, we learned at Computex this year that ELSA won't be doing an UltraTNT2 untill August, when they expect yields of UltraTNT2 chips to be a lot better.

Therefor the 32MB TNT2 based ERAZOR III "ViVo" is CURRENTLY their top-of-the-line offering. The layout is neat/clean and harbors four 8MB SDRAM memory chips. The TNT2 graphics clock is set at 125MHz whilst the memory frequency is set to 150MHz (the default speeds as suggested by NVIDIA). With only a heat sink to help cool the chip, we weren't able to successfully overclock the ERAZOR III (it didn't run for long periods of time at increased frequencies) but we understand that some of you might be lucky enough to do so. It's a case of 'luck of the draw'.