What the press says...
"This card ran 3D Winbench so fast, it finished before I could
blink!" "Benchmarks don't tell the whole story though. Direct3D games ran very,
very fast as well!"
Computer Gaming World 11/97
"Excellent 3D acceleration and good 2D
performance."
ZD Net UK 04/98
Hardware
High Performance Graphics Accelerator
- NVidia NV3 (Riva 128) 128 bit graphics processor
- 230 MHz RAMDAC
- 4 Mbytes 100MHz SGRAM (1.6 GB/s)
- PCI 33MHz (v2.0, v2.1) or
AGP 66 MHz (v. 1.0)
Optimized 2D Acceleration
- BitBlt, Line Draw, Polygon Fill
- Vertex and Texture caching
Optimized 3D Acceleration
- H/W optimized for Direct3D API
- Fog Vertex
- Specular Highlights
- Color key transparency
- Alpha Transparency
- Bi-linear (Linear) and tri-linear filtering
- MIP-mapping
- Dithering
- Perspective Correction
- Fog Vertex & Color Key
- Fog Vertex & Alpha
- Z-buffering
- Gouraud shading
- Anti-Aliasing
Video
- Hardware X and Y up and down scaling
- Hardware YUV colour space conversion
- Hardware double buffering
- Hardware colour dithering
Software
BIOS
- VESA 2.0 support
- DDC2B support
Graphics Driver for
- Windows 95
- Windows NT 3.51 and NT 4.0
Additional Software for Windows 95
- InControl Tools 95
- DirectX5 incl. Direct3D, DirectDraw
- Software MPEG decoder
Additional Software for Windows NT 4.0
- DirectDraw support
- OpenGL MCD acceleration
- Multi monitor support
(up to 4 monitors with 4 Viper boards)
Additional Driver for DOS
Software Bundles: (only in the retailbox with label games inside)
- Hardware accelerated Games:
- Interactive’s Magic’s iF-22 ( full version)
- Electronic Art’s Moto Racer (full version)
- Interplay’s MDK: Mission Laguna Beach
- Imaging software:
- MGI PhotoSuite SE
System Requirements
- Pentium compatible CPU
- MS Windows 95 or DOS 5.0 (or higher) or Windows NT 3.51 (or higher)
- PCI 2.x or AGP ATX compliant motherboard and available slot
Compatibility & Certifications
- 100% compatible with VGA, SVGA and VESA Standard
- CE
- Microsoft WHQL: Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0
Service & Support
- 5 years warranty
- Free Software updates via BBS, Internet, CompuServe
- Fax-on-Demand Service
- Technical support through Hotline
