Creative Labs 3DB6901 3D Blaster Savage4 AGP 32

Installation went without any hitches, as usual from creative. First thing I tried was Unreal. VERY nice, high quality image, but incredibly slow, compared to the VooDoo 2 I replaced. Next came GlQuake. Very bad. Particles were disgusting, and the weapon sank into the walls. Quake 2 was better visually, but incredibly slow. Same with half-life and kingpin. I returned the card and got a TNT2 Ultra ;)

When you buy this card, you make an investment. You could probably go out and buy a voodoo 3 and get better performance now but in the long run you will save. This cards stacks 32mb Ram and a 125 Mhz memory bus (143 Max) The graphics show very well on most games at 640 x 480 and 800 x 600 but at higher resolutions, there are many frames skipping. The only way you see the true potential of this card is when you use a game with the S3 Texture compression, non of which i have but i understand unreal has it which i am in the proccess of buying. The included software has some Creative Blaster software allowing you to adjust brightness and overclock the graphics and memory bus speeds. The also is some 3d Deep and colorific which suppose to allow you to make your monitor and games show better, but honestly I don't use them so i can't say much. The voodoo's can't run on more than 16-bit colors, this one can go to 32-bit. This card is perfect for light gamers like me on a budget. You...Read more

As long as you use latest drivers and update BIOS this card really rocks