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 Guillemot Maxi Gamer Xentor
TNT2
(Review by MS, June 20, 1999)

In the last few weeks there have been numerous reviews of a variety of TNT2 cards that were posted on the internet and there often seemed to be one feature that emerged. TNT2 and SS7 don’t go together well, or, if you already own a SS7 board and an AMD CPU, stay away from the TNT2. For one, Diamond has shown with the Viper770, that this preoccupation may be nothing but a rumor, since this card runs quite well on the SS7 platform.

As usual, Diamond is notoriously placing itself at the high end of the spectrum within a given class of product with all of their releases, but there are other brands that are less expensive and may do an equally nice job. In this respect, one has to keep in mind that most graphics adapters currently on the market are essentially or very close to reference boards coming from one or the other chipset manufacturer like 3dfx, NVIDIA Riva, or S3. All cards currently available are adhering very closely to the reference design and basically add one or the other tweak to the layout established by the chipset manufacturer. Variations in the hardware include the choice and size/number of the memory modules, the presence or absence of a fan, as well as the additional output connectors. That is, the low end cards typically only come with the standard VGA connector and 16 MB of onboard memory whereas the more expensive competitors sport TV out, 32MB local frame buffer which, in addition, often runs at a higher clock speed.


So why not just grab the cheapest card of the pack and see how far it gets you. Guillemot has built itself quite a reputation for high quality sound / sound editing cards such as the Home Studio Pro64 or the ISIS. In the graphics card business, they have been around but never really been one of the big hitters. However, looking at places like Electronics Boutique, one finds that the basic TNT2 card, the Xentor16 sells for a mere $129 before an additional rebate of $20 which brings down the total price to $109. This is definitely worth a try.

As mentioned above, there have been already some 100 or more reviews of the various TNT2 cards out there including all kinds of possible benchmarks on Intel BX systems. For exactly this reason why we are going to skip this part and dive straight into the SS7 world to see how the Xentor performes here.

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