VisionTek 32MB AGP NVIDIA TNT2 M64 Video Card?

[wiredspider]

Is this a good video card? Would it be worth $40? I think I just a won an auction on this by mistake, but if it's a good deal, I'll keep it. Seems pretty cheap for 32 MB of memory. Someone please tell me. If you have, do you like it? Thanks for any help.

Features And Benefits



Get the ultimate in multimedia quality and performance with VisionTek's 4x/2x AGP M64 3D graphics accelerator. Powered by the optimized, second-generation NVIDIA TNT2 processor and built, tested and supported by a leader in electronics assembly for outstanding quality, availability and customer service.

Applications

3D game design and development

Internet browsing excellence

Intense gaming performance

Quality video playback

Large-format display

High-impact content creation


High-performance 128-bit 2D acceleration

Hardware acceleration for all Windows GDI operations

Optimized for multiple color depths including 32, 24, 16, 15 and 8 bits per pixel

True-color hardware cursor

Hardware color dithering

Multi-buffering (up to quad buffering) for smooth animation and video playback

Fast 32-bit VGA support

Maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200 x 32 @ 72MHz


Robust system interface

AGP 4x/2x system bus (AGP 2.0 and AGP 1.0 compliant)

64-bit frame-buffer interface, supporting up to 32MB SDRAM


Award-winning 3D performance

Second-generation 128-bit TwiN Texel architecture

300MHz RAMDAC

Complete DirectX 6.0 and 5.0 support

Single-pass multi-texturing

32-bit rendering with destination alpha

32-bit Z / stencil buffer

Anti-aliasing (full scene, order independent)

Point-sampled, bilinear, and 8 tap anisotropic filtering

100% hardware triangle setup

TextureBlend support

Multi-texture, bump mapping

Texture modulation

Light, reflection, environment mapping

Detail, procedural textures

Per-pixel perspective-correct texture mapping

Fog, light, mip mapping

Optimized for Pentium III and K6-2 processors


High-quality video acceleration

Full-screen, full-frame DVD playback

Advanced support for DirectDraw

Back-end hardware video scaling for video conferencing and playback

Hardware color-space conversion (YUV 4:2:2 and 4:2:0)

Multi-tap X and Y filtering

Per-pixel color keying

Multiple video windows with hardware color space conversion and filtering, DVD sub-picture alpha-blended compositing, Video acceleration for DirectShow, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and Indeo


Built-in compatibility with unified driver

Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 3.5, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows 95 display drivers

Complete support for DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectShow, and ActiveX

OpenGL ICD for all operating systems listed above

OS/2 display driver

Window 3.x display driver

Fully PC98 and PC99 compliant




Requirements


Detailed Description


Manufacturer Part Number
72702.V

Warranty
1 Year From Manufacturer

Package Contents
Card, Driver, and WinDVD Software

 

[rondeemc]

You are going to get a copy of WInDVD so that by itself is worth $15 minimum. Does it have an s-video or flat panel connection? Anyway think of it after removing the cost of the DVD software as $25 dollars which makes it a good deal.

 

[wiredspider]

http://www.ubid.com/actn/opn/getpage.asp?AuctionId=5269181 Here is the page with all the stuff. I don't know what kinda connection it has. I bid on it when I was sleepy and won. Anyways, I still have a little bit of time left to cancel or give them a new card to buy it.(they had an old AMEX on my account)

 

[Rand]

I'd suggest avoiding it. The TNT2 M64 has crappy 2D visual quality, in terms of 3D gaming is little better then the original TNT1 because of memory bandwidth limitations due to the 64bit single data rate memory bus. It really has no areas where it does particularly well, you can get a better card for equivalent money.