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  • Hercules 3D Prophet III GeForce3 Specs:

    • NVIDIA GeForce 3 GPU @ 200MHz
    • 64-MB DDR SDRAM, access time 3.8 ns, effectively at 460MHz
    • 350 MHz RAMDAC
    • Lightspeed Memory Architecture
    • High-Performance Hardware Anti-Aliasing Featuring Quincunx AA mode
    • nFinite FX Engine
    • AGP 4X/2X, AGP texturing and Fast Write supports
    • Microsoft DirectX 8 and OpenGL 1.2 Optimizations and support
    • Programmable Vertex Shader
    • On-board DVI-I support, S-VHS/TV-Out, and VGA connectors
    • Second Generation Integrated Transform and Lighting Engines
    • Drivers Support for Win 9X, Win ME, Win NT4, Win2K
    • Active cooling fan
    • CD w/ Drivers, PowerDVD, Tweaker 2.0, etc.
    • S-VHS-to-composite adapter dongle

    Test System:

    • Processor: Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz
    • Motherboard/Chipset: Intel 850 Chipset/Motherboard (Dell OEM)
    • IDE Interface: Ultra ATA/100
    • Memory: 256MB PC800 RDRAM
    • HD: Maxtor 7200RPM DMA/100
    • IDE Interface: Ultra ATA/100
    • Video: Hercules 3D Prophet III GeForce3, Leadtek Winfast TDR GeForce 3, Leadtek Winfast 32 MB GTS
      • All cards tested using NVIDIA Detonator 3 12.41 Reference Drivers (Prophet III also tested with Detonator XP 21.28 Reference Drivers)
    • CD/DVD: NEC 16x DVD-ROM, TDK 16/10/40 CD-RW
    • Sound: SB Live! 1024 Sound
    • Windows 98 Second Edition
    • Power Supply: 330 Watt





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