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OK, so this is the black sheep that's got everybody riled up because it showed up wearing a flashy 175MHz-engine jacket and 200MHz-memory pants. Hercules made a big splash with its original Dynamite TNT, and everybody expected the developer to follow up with an even better TNT2 card. Did the company succeed?
This card comes with worms--Team 17's Worms, that is. And Westwood's Command and Conquer, and Virgin's Zone Raiders, plus utilities like a software DVD player. You can actually buy two versions of the Dynamite TNT2 Ultra. One version comes with a TV output but no DVD software, and goes for $246. The other version, the one we got, comes with the DVD software but no TV output, and goes for $250. Pick the one that best suits your needs.
Installation went smoothly, though at the last minute Hercules sent us updated drivers based on NVidia's v. 1.88 reference drivers. We already knew the better drivers would probably give the Hercules card an advantage, so we also tested it with the NVidia reference drivers that we used in testing all the other cards. Because every card we tested (except the Guillemot Maxi Gamer Xentor 32) was base-clocked at 150MHz engine and 183MHz memory, we used the handy Hercumeter residing in the Display Properties to tune down the Dynamite TNT2 to match these specifications.-- Danny W. Lam / GamePro
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