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Product:
Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra
Company: Guillemot International
Website: http://www.hercules.com
Estimated Street Price: $419.00
Review By: Julien JAY
Final
Results and Overall Mark
Well we have reached the end of the
review. Here are my final comments, notes and grades for Guillemot
International - Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra 64Mb.
Final
Comments
How
It Grades |
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Installation:
85%
Performance: 95%
Features: 95%
Drivers: 95%
2D Quality:
95%
3D Quality:
95%
Users' Guide:
80%
Overall: 92%
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The
Hercules 3D
Prophet II Ultra 64Mb is really an innovative and exceptional 3D card that
offers hard-core gamers with extremely high 3D acceleration promising
hyper realistic games. This card can be really considered as a weapon that
every fanatical gamer wants as it’ll provide unprecedented devilish 3D
acceleration.
The Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra is a real beast of power
especially in high-resolution modes. Note
that the blue styling along with the memory heatsinks make the card design
one of the more visually attractive and will really differentiate the 3D
Prophet II Ultra 64MB board from every other competing card. However
the price is as high as the performance makes this card really expensive.
But every hard-core gamer will surely fall for this new card as it is
simply the most powerful in the world.
Specs
& Package |
Overall
Score |
92% |
Version
Reviewed |
Hercules
3D Prophet II Ultra 64Mb with Bios 3.15.00.11 |
Release
Date |
Already
in stores! |
In
The Box? |
1
User's guide,
1 CD with drivers & demo games,
1 TV Output S-Video cable,
1 Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra 64Mb board. |
The
Good Points |
Amazing
power
Tons of 3d features
Great Drivers
TV-Output
Nice Design |
The
Bad Points |
Too
Expensive!
No real full MPEG2 hardware decoder |
Reviewers
PC Setup |
Pentium
III 1 Ghz B
Intel VC820 Motherboard
Windows Millennium Edition
256 MB PC800 RDRAM w/ECC
DirectX 7a
17" Sony Trinitron Monitor
Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra - 64Mb AGP 4x Graphics Card
Sound Blaster Live! Platinum
Adaptec 19160 Ultra SCSI card
Pinnacle Miro DC30+
Pinnacle Studio DV
Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB
Microsoft
TrackBall Optical
Microsoft
Natural Keyboard Pro
DVD Pioneer 105s (16/40x)
Yamaha 8824 Ultra SCSI internal burner |
PC
Required |
Minimum
System
Windows 95/98/Me or Windows NT
4.0 SP3/2000
Pentium II or greater
Available AGP slot
AGP 2.0 compliant
64Mb of RAM
10Mb of available hard disk space
CD-Rom Drive
Microsoft Mouse or other compatible pointing device
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