While looking closely at the GF256 GTS (GF2 from now on) we can see that it is a very close resemblance of the reference design GeForce2 GTS from NVIDIA. The card is equipped with a luxury 64 MB DDR (Double Datarate) 6ns SGRAM (166Mhz) from Hyundai. 

Siluro 256 GTS - Notice that weird Ice cooler on there ?

There is a TV/S-VHS Output available on this videocard, it is standard issue (yes!) and allows you to output to the big screen. This GF2 comes in a cool design box and includes of course the necessities like the videocard (duh!), a detailed manual, and a driver CD covering all the basics. Furthermore a complementary full version of WinDVD is included and hey get this ? Shogo Full version and Test Drive 5 full version. Nice going ABit !

Ok I agree, this is the less interesting picture of the review

The GF2 is now actually equipped with a HDTV processor, a new standard that is introduced in the US at this time. The HDTV processor can be connected to a HDTV decoder. Now we should be able to watch Full-screen HD television. Unfortunately in Europe this new standard is not introduced yet, so it will not play a big role on this side off the world.  The GF2 is an excellent card to show off and view DVD movies. It can decode in hardware MPEG streams in HQ and of course realtime. Luckily WinDVD 2000 (full) is included in the software bundle, that's definitely better than nothing, huh Creative ?

The Greatest Engine Available for Multimedia Application:

• Incorporates nVIDIA’s latest GigaTexel Shading (GTS) GPU processor
• HyperTexel architecture delivers 1.6 GigaTexels and 800 MegaPixels/second.
• Fast and optimized 64MB DDR memory
• 4 dual-texturing pipelines, mapping 8 texels/clock cycle
• 200MHz core clock, 333 MHz DDR RAM clock
• 4X AGP with Fast Writes/AGP 2X /1X compatible

The QUAD-Engine Architecture:

• 100% hardware triangle setup: 25 million triangles/second
• Optimized Direct 3D and OpenGL acceleration
• The most advanced supports for OpenGL and DirectX 7 and beta DirectX 8
• New 3D features: per-pixel shading and lighting for rich, lifelike materials and cinematic effects

High performance 256-bit 2D acceleration

• Resolutions of up to 2048x1536 in 16 million colors with a 350MHz RAMDAC

High Quality TV/Video Output and DVD Playback:

• NTSC and PAL TV output in 640x480 and 800x600
• High Definition Video Processor (HDVP) for full-screen, full-frame video playback of all HDTV and DVD and resolutions

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