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As
more and more companies diversify their product
lines to offer motherboards and video cards, many
similar products will begin to hit store shelves.
Companies like Asus, Abit and Gigabyte have
ventured out of the motherboard market and are now
offering high quality graphics accelerators.
But why buy one over another?
These companies know that is the dilemma a
potential buyer faces and Gigabyte thinks they've
found the answer.
Gigabyte's
newest entry into the crowded GeForce 2 GTS market
is the GA-GF2000.
Although this card doesn't offer a big
software bundle, or any exclusive features to
differentiate itself from its slew of competitors,
it does offer the quality and reliability we have
learned go hand-in-hand with Gigabyte products,
which at least to me, means a lot.
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| Specifications
Of The GA-GF2000 GF256 GTS 32MB DDR |
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"classic" GeForce2 GTS... |
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NVIDIA
Geforce2 GTS, 256-bit 2D/3D GPU with
Hardware Transform & Lighting
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High-Performance
DDR memory
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AGP
4X with Fast Writes
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32-bit
color ARGB with destination alpha
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Cube
environment mapping and Anisotropic
texture filtering
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350MHz
RAMDAC
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Motion
compensation enhanced for DVD playback
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Optimized
drivers for OpenGL and DirectX
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Full
version games and VCD player included
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Optional
TV-out and DVI output support
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Optimized
Direct3D and OpenGL acceleration
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Complete
DirectX 7, DirectX 6 and DirectX 5
support
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256-bit
graphics engine
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8
texture-mapped, filtered, lit texels per
clock cycle
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Single
pass multi-texturing
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32-bit
Z/stencil buffer (floating point or
integer)Anti-aliasing: full scene, order
independent
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32-bit
ARGB rendering with destination alpha
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High
Quality Texture Filtering, including
Anisotropic
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Advanced
per-pixel, perspective-correct texturing
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Fog
and Depth Cueing
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High
performance 256-bit 2D acceleration
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Optimized
for multiple color depths including 32,
24, 16, 15, and 8-bits per pixel
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True-color
hardware cursor
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Multi-buffering
(double, triple, quad buffering) for
smooth animation and video playback
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High
quality HDTV/DVD Playback
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Enhanced
Motion Compensation for full-screen,
full-frame video playback of all DVD and
HDTV resolutions
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Advanced
support for DirectDraw
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Hardware
color space conversion (YUV 4:2:2 and
4:2:0)
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5-tap
horizontal by 3-tap vertical filtering
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8:1
upscaling and downscaling
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Per-pixel
color keying
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Multiple
video windows with hardware color space
conversion and filtering
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DVD
sub-picture alpha blended compositing
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Video
acceleration for DirectShow, MPEG-1,
MPEG-2,and Indeo
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Up
to 128MB of SDR or DDR SDRAM/SGRAM
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memory that came installed on this board is 6ns
Infineon DDR SGRAM.
This particular memory gave us very good
results when it came to overclocking and ran
relatively cool throughout testing. The
exact specifications can be found right here.
Yields
on DDR memory have obviously been getting better
as time has gone by (which was expected)...more on
this later though.
Also notice that 32MB versions of the
GeForce 2 GTS boards are coming equipped with
SGRAM, not SDRAM.
32MB SGRAM boards will consistently
outperform similarly clocked SDRAM variations.
Installation,
Drivers, Visuals
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