DIAMOND VIPER 550 AGP DRIVER

I would personally recommend a cooling fan to be installed if you intend to overclock it's memory or chip. Once you've tweaked up your brightness a bit, all is very tasty. OpenGL games inherit the colour depth of the desktop when you run them; if you're running 16 bit in Windows, that's what the game'll be. Fremont SE by Portola Dimensional. In both 16 bit and 32 bit modes, the V delivers gorgeous 2D and 3D graphics. Again, woe betide you if your processor's not fast enough, as TA is still eminently capable of bringing an arbitrarily fast computer to its knees, but seeing that much more of the battlefield is definitely groovy.

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Diamond Viper V550

MS DirectX Version 6. Short for Tex ture El ement. However the improvements weren't enough to justify ditching your Voodoo or Riva for a card based on a chipset that sounds like it was a discontinued Camaro.

If you've got a DVD-ROM drive but not a decoder card like, for example, the Jaton one reviewed hereit's not a bad piece of software. Refresh rate, measured in Hertz Hzis the number of times per second the screen is "repainted" with the image. TNT will be my pick as it rivalled and excelled even better than a single Voodoo 2.

Remember this if you run your favourite game and it seems strangely slow; check vipdr desktop colour depth. For this reason, AnandTech will not concentrate on benchmarks alone to resolve the question of which TNT based card is the absolute best for your needs. Installation of the card is a no-brainer. But it is only a matter of time that they'll do it.

Diamond Viper V550 graphics card - Riva TNT - 16 MB Series

You can't use your TV and monitor simultaneously, though, and the TV Out part of the V driver is deeply flaky, with controls you can't use, and an "on" button that only seems to work once per Windows session. In spite of the fact that the public was blatantly lied 550 by nVidia about the potential of the TNT, technically nVidia never said when their TNT would be a Voodoo2-killer, so we can't really blame them now can we? Although there were some defects and poor implementation on that chipset, many people still bought it.

Saving both slot space and your pocket. With a rather imposing 16Mb of RAM onboard, and if your monitor can djamond it, by is possible.

Click here to find lowest prices on this product. If you want to play Unreal, forget it until the TNT drivers start working with it.

OpenGL games inherit the colour depth of the desktop when you run them; if you're running 16 5500 in Windows, that's what the game'll be.

But it's undeniably damond, runs blisteringly quickly on the TNT, can be set up as a simple arcade racer or a highly challenging single or multiplayer experience with quite realistic handling, and generally shows off the power of the card like nobody's business. Two statements that are almost as different as night and day, and two statements which will end up ruining nVidia's credibility in the future.

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Built on a 0. Firstly, Diamond should really consider adding a heatsink to the chip. Directly from the source, nVidia claims to have a 0. Software Along with the usual collection of game demos and low-powered ivper software, the V comes with Gremlin Interactive's race game Motorhead. And packed with a more powerful brain that G can't cope with. I'll settle for that.

What do you get with the Vkper TNT? For more info on what the heck this means, check out my guide to all flavours of video here. The big black square is the heatsink over the main processor chip. The results are based on a 2nd driver update sen t to me which has slight improvements and bug fixes over the retail driver. The chip is touching hot when used for more than 10 mins.

Review: Diamond Viper V graphics card

There's never a perfect 10 chipset. Plus the fact that bugs are seen quite often on the card. Different ciamond have different thresholds of annoyance when it comes to screen flicker, but staring at a 60Hz screen all day is an unpleasant experience for pretty much anyone. According to the first press releases directly from nVidia, the Riva TNT chipset was supposed to be manufactured using a 0.