I bought this card with my new computer that I made. It uses the new NVIDIA RIVA TNT chipset which is comparable to the voodoo chipset and in my opinion surpasses it. Even when I was testing the graphics, it looked better on the STB Velocity then the reference image given. Plus the generous 16MB of video graphics was amazing. The only problem I had with it really is that it does not support 3dfx, even though the graphics are comparably close. I especially enjoyed the TV-out feature on this card which is not featured on its competitor, the Graphics Blaster RivaTNT card from Creative. It supports 640 by 480 and 800 by 600 resolutions and it is decently clear. It also comes with STB Vision 98 which is a plethora of desktop tools to work with your video card, in which I found came in handy. Plus it supports desktop sizes up to 1920 by 1200.
It was a breeze sticking the card into my AGP slot and turning the computer on. The card is Plug And Play but you know how that works, and there are always some kind of problems. There was a problem with the STB Vision 98 drivers and I ended up needing to go to the STB website and downloading the drivers on my own. The server was pretty slow so it took me a long time to finally get my card working properly. Once I got it up and running it ran perfectly, and the outcome is incredible.
| Chipset | NVIDIA Riva TNT |
| BUS | PCI, AGP 2X AGP tested |
| Chip Clock/Memory Clock | 90Mhz / 110 Mhz |
| Fill Rate/Triangle throughput | 180 megapixels/6 million |
| RAMDAC | 250Mhz |
| Video Memory | 16MB |
| Warranty | Lifetime |
| Manufacturer Info | STB Systems |
System Tested On
| Pentium II 400 Mhz |
| 128 MB RAM |
| 32X IDE CD-ROM |
| Creative PC-DVD Drive |
| 16 GIG Hard Drive |
| Windows 98 |
| AGP STB Velocity 4400 |
| Creative Voodoo 2 |
Benchmark Program Used To Test:
3D Mark 99 tested at 640 by 480 and 800 by 600 resolutions
640 by 480
| 3D Mark Result | 2,597 3DMarks |
| CPU Geometry Speed | 5,817 3DCPUMarks |
| Rasterizer Score | 1,157 3DRasterMarks |
| Game 1 - Race | 41.6 FPS |
| Game 2 - First Person | 45.0 FPS |
| Fill Rate | 76.3 MTexels/s |
| Fill Rate With Multi Texturing | 139.6 MTexels/s |
| 2MB Texture Rendering Speed | 147.1 FPS |
| 4MB Texture Rendering Speed | 114.8 FPS |
| 8MB Texture Rendering Speed | 87.4 FPS |
| 16MB Texture Rendering Speed | 60.0 FPS |
| 32MB Texture Rendering Speed | 34.4 FPS |
800 by 600
| 3D Mark Result | 2,022 3DMarks |
| CPU Geometry Speed | 5,810 3DCPUMarks |
| Rasterizer Score | 1,110 3DRasterMarks |
| Game 1 - Race | 32.6 FPS |
| Game 2 - First Person | 34.8 FPS |
| Fill Rate | 77.1 MTexels/s |
| Fill Rate With Multi Texturing | 141.9 Mtexels/s |
| 2MB Texture Rendering Speed | 108.3 FPS |
| 4MB Texture Rendering Speed | 88.4 FPS |
| 8MB Texture Rendering Speed | 67.1 FPS |
| 16MB Texture Rendering Speed | 41.5 FPS |
| 32MB Texture Rendering Speed | 23.5 FPS |
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