Sharky Extreme regulars are no doubt quite familiar with the specs of NVIDIA's TNT 2 chipset by now but just in case someone has forgotten here's the official specs for Gainward's TNT 2:

3D/2D Acceleration

• Second-generation TwiN texel 32-bit graphics pipeline
• 100% hardware triangle setup
• Optimized for Direct3D acceleration with full support for DirectX6.0
• 32-bit ARGB rendering with destination alpha
• 24-bit Z-buffer, 8-big stencil buffer
• Anisotropic filtering (better than Tri-linear MIP-mapping)
• Per pixel perspective correct texture mapping including Fog, Light, and MIP-mapping
• High performance 128-bit 2D/GUI/DirectDraw acceleration

Video Acceleration

• Hardware YUV 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 color space conversion support
• Multi-tap X and Y filtering
• Support planar YUV12 (4:2:0) to/from packed (4:2:2) conversion for software MPEG acceleration
• DVD sub-picture alpha blended compositing
• Video acceleration for DirectShow, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1

AGP 4X Sideband Support

• AGP 4X/2X/1X mode with full sideband/Execute mode support
• Supports over 900MB/sec in AGP 4X mode

Graphics Controller Memory RAMDAC Bus Type VGA Connector TV Output LCD Output Max Resolution Fill Rate (pixels/sec) Triangles/second Bandwidth

NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 32MB SDRAM 300MHz AGP (4x/2x/1x) w/ full sideband/Execute mode support DB-15 analog monitor connector VESA DDC2B, DPMS, VBE 2.0/3.0 S-Video (Max Resolution 800 x 600) PanelLink digital interface, Supports VGA, SVGA, XGA, SXGA and 18/24 TFT color monitors Supports resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 1900 x 1440 250M 8M 3GB/sec