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To: Plaz who wrote (12565)	5/14/1999 8:38:00 AM
From: Michael G. Potter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

I finally wandered over to Sharky's to read their Hercules TNT2 Ultra review. I'm starting to like Sharky's more and more. Yes, they hype a little in their reviews, but they're trying to get hits to sell advertising. I don't detect much bias in their reviews just hype about the latest and greatest (new every week). Anyways, I liked these two comments from the article sharkyextreme.com "It's May 1999 now, and once again Diamond and Creative stand posied to deliver state of the art graphic boards based on the newest and fastest 3D accelerator chips available. Utilizing the nVidia TNT2 Ultra chip, both Creative and Diamond have gone on the record with the public recently stating that they'll ship their TNT2 Ultra-based boards at a somewhat meager 150MHz core speed and 183MHz SDRAM speed. So much for the 174MHz Viper770 prototype Sharky Extreme tested and was told would be the part's launch speed a month and a half ago…" So Sharky did take a little slam against Diamond for sending them an overclocked board. Here's the quote that should have store owners up in arms (the danger of providing overclocking in the official drivers): "Cards like the Dynamite TNT2 Ultra are the reason why everyone should have credit cards. Simply go down to the local CompUSA, charge four of these bad boys, take em home and then find the best one of the batch. Return the other three and enjoy gaming nirvana." Just what CompUSA wants to see, returns, returns, returns. Maybe someone should send them an e-mail warning them about the "overclocking" sliders built into the shipping drivers for TNT2 cards. Michael ps - I'm not sure if it was here or somewhere else where a poster dismissed Hercules as a non-brand. For anyone who has used PC's since they first came out, Hercules is a big name - they were one of the very first companies to push the videocard envelope and even had a video mode named after them.