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Maxi Gamer Xentor 32
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Final Words
After many Direct3D and OpenGL benchmarks I came to the conclusion that Guillemot's Ultra TNT2 card, The Maxi Gamer Xentor 32 is the fastest kid on the block when we talk about 2D and 3D performance.
It has a not so-good game bundle (only demo versions and 3d animations) but game bundles don't sell cards.
However, it has good Tv-Out support, an excellent manual, good driver support and a 3-year warranty!
And from what I have heard, the DVD software support is pretty decent as well.
The only thing that I can say is that Guillemot's Ultra-TNT2 card, the Xentor 32 made my dreams come true. I can now play all my favourite games, 32-bit rendering and textures enabled, on a resolution of 1600x1200 without any stuttering.
And right now, it is the cheapest Ultra TNT2 card that you can buy. Sure, the Voodoo 3 3500 from 3dfx is probably not a bad card too but it lacks many features such as 32-bit rendering, agp texturing, only 16 Mb Ram and the textures are again limited to 256x256!
The only advantage that every Voodoo card has is the ability of playing Glide games ... but right now, 95% of todays games have D3D and/or OpenGl support.
For me, nVidia and Guillemot all the way because they make damn fine 2D/3D high-end products!
Watch your step 3dfx because there is a serious competitor on its way!
-Bjorn
What's Good
- Excellent 2D and 3D quality
- Cheapest Ultra-TNT2 card
- Good driver support with the overclock (PowerSprinter) utility
- 32-bit color support, AGP texturing
- Fast 5.5ns 32 Mb SDRAM
- Fastest 2D/3D Kid on the block
- Decent HSF unit
- Good TV-Out and DVD support
- A very well explained user manual
- 3-year warranty
What's Bad
- The HSF unit might block the PCI card underneath the Xentor 32
- Not the best overclocker (still stable @ 180/195)
- You can't have simultaneous TV/monitor output
- There is no TV-Out documentation in the user manual
Overall Rating: 9.8/10
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