Creative Annihilator 2 Review
Written: Apr 30 '01
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Pros: Really really fast, It's a GeForce card, Very overclockable, Super 32 bit performance
Cons: Expensive
The Bottom Line: If you're looking for speed, you came to the right place with the Creative Annihilator 2.
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| spab's Full Review: Creative Technology 3D Blaster Annihilator2, (32 M... |
Creative uses a very simple marketing strategy to sell video cards. It goes something like this; Take the hottest video chipset on the market, make a video card out of it using the reference design to save some money on R&D, sell the card for less than the competition.
Creative applied this strategy to the creation of the Annihilator 2 to a tee. The Creative Annihilator 2 uses the GeForce2 GTS chipset from nVidia, currently the fastest 3D chipset for the consumer market, loaded it up with 32 megs of DDR RAM, priced it $50 below the next less expensive GeForce2 GTS card and voila! Instant hit!
At first glance the Annihilator 2 looks just like an Elsa Gladiac. On second glance the Annihilator 2 looks just like an Elsa Gladiac. Same for the third and fourth glance. Except for a few stickers here and there, you can't tell the two cards apart. If I was to remove all the stickers from the two cards, you wouldn't be able to tell which is which (unless you know the Elsa has "REV B" written on its PCB).
For a list price of $299.00 you don't get much of a software bundle. As a matter of fact, there is no software bundle! Just the drivers and some demos that everyone has seen or downloaded a long time ago. Then again, Creative is selling their card cheaper than any one else so I guess we can cut them some slack.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 299
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spab
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