Welcome to ProCooling's look inside the new Nvidia Chip - the Much hyped GeForce 3.  This review is here to tell you if it is all just Hype or if it really does perform as advertised.   We also look into Image Quality and a few other aspects of it. This review is a culmination of over 80 tests, Benchmarks, and runs on the VisionTek GeForce 3 Vs. a VisionTek GeForce 2 Ultra video card.    Well lets get on with it.

It Arrives -

the back of the box is nothing special, standard news, pic of the board, got some lizards and some guy who looks strangely like me when I wake up in the morning.  Just keep wondering where the damn turban comes from.

The Inside of the box is stark of anything you are normally accustomed to.  No fliers for deals on non related BS, no poster diagram of the board, just a lil book on installing it, and the card. No driver CD was provided yet in this box but will be in the ones you find the on the shelf.

The Install manual is simple and brief it covers Win98, WinME, Windows 2000, Windows NT install procedures. The manual is not made for the GF3 board, but is a general driver install doc. Still quick and sweet.

And there we have it folks the already legendary NV20 - GeForce 3 by VisionTek. That there is 600$ of gaming performance.. or is it... that we will soon find out.

This is a 64mb 200/460 clocked GeForce 3, with the Nv reference Ram sinks and GPU cooler.  Its hard to tell but the board is a slight bit smaller then the GF2 Ultra. and there is a header for it, but no DVI out like the GF2 Ultra we have from them has.

Click on the below image for an 800x500 pic of the board

What is the GeForce 3?-

Key features:

• The nfiniteFX engine makes GeForce3 the only GPU in the world with a programmable Vertex Processor and a programmable Pixel Processor.  This programmability enables a virtually infinite number of special effects. 
   
• GeForce3's performance and patent-pending antialiasing technologies enable high-resolution antialiasing (HRAA) for the first time ever.  The Quincunx AA™ technology delivers a high level of detail and crisp, clean lines at high frame rates.
   
• The Lightspeed Memory Architecturemakes GeForce3 the fastest GPU ever produced. Through its patented crossbar memory controller and Z-Occlusion Culling (to only render visible pixels), GeForce3 generates the power to deliver earth-shattering performance at all resolutions. 
   
• GeForce3 is the only DirectX 8 1.1compliant graphics processor, as it has BOTH a programmable Pixel Shader and a programmable Vertex Shader.  NVIDIA licensed our Vertex and Pixel Shading technology to Microsoft for inclusion in DirectX 8.