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14/10/98
Found some more info for yas:
Nine's
"The other video card round-up is at AnandTech. BTW, in an earlier review, Anand picked the Creative TNT as the best TNT card value because of the quality memory (Fujitsu) and overclockability (stable at 130MHz). If TV-out is a must, then the Canopus Spectra wins, although it's memory (Hyundai) is limited to around 115MHz (110 is the default). I've seen the Creative TNT for as little as $138. I'm still waiting until at least Fall Comdex to hear what Rendition will announce. "
Anand Tech
"The best overall video accelerator money can buy, the Riva TNT is everything the Riva 128 was during its time, and more. Boasting outstanding performance on higher end systems, and above average image quality, the Riva TNT picks up where the 128 left off. Taking a complete 360 degree turn from their history, nVidia worked hard to ensure that the Riva TNT's usage of the AGP 2X specification was the best on the market, and this they did with incredible success.
The 0.35 micron, extremely hot running, chip, uses a twin texel 32-bit graphics pipeline allowing for incredible multi-textured performance on par with if not greater than that of the 3Dfx Voodoo2. While its performance under single textured environments is generally lower or equal to that of a Voodoo2, its ability to scale incredibly with its host processor speed gives it the edge over 3Dfx on the high end. Unlike the introduction of the Riva 128, the Riva TNT ships with a full OpenGL ICD out of the box, a truly excellent driver implementation as well, since the TNT doesn't seem to have any noticeable problems with its OpenGL performance and its image quality."
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13/10/98
Tweak3d
Cooling the TNT
"It is a well known fact that the TNT runs at a high temperature. The main reason for this is the usage of a .35 micron instead of .25. According
to sources, this was because the .25 micron was not completed yet. Perhaps it would have been to expensive at this time. Although the original clock speed was dropped from the spec'd 125 MHz to 90 MHz, with a little work you can get it right where it is supposed to be."
Tweaking the TNT
"Is the TNT so slow that it needs to be tweaked? Of course not. On faster systems the TNT will beat a single Voodoo2 board in most games. So why would you tweak a TNT? There's a few big reasons."
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