最後一篇,KYRO 2的價位等級無卡能有其表現!
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Video card - Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 (Kyro II) - $100
This month, we finally go ahead and make the Kyro II our recommendation for the value gaming system. Nothing else in this price range can touch the Kyro II's performance in most current games. The secret to its success, of course, is its memory bandwidth efficient tile rendering architecture. This is also what allows Kyro II based cards to be so inexpensive. While there are a few manufacturers with Kyro II cards out there, the Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 seems to be the best option and is the easiest to find as well.
Of course, as games that take advantage of T&L become more prevalent, the Kyro II's performance advantage may dwindle quickly. For that reason, you may want to consider saving a few bucks and going with a $70 Radeon LE. With a bit of tweaking, the Radeon LE performs identically to a full fledged 32MB DDR Radeon.
Note that the Kyro II and Radeon LE each have some hidden tradeoffs. The Kyro II performance suffers considerably with anisotropic filtering enabled and in DVD playback. On the Radeon LE side of things, ATI's Windows 2000 drivers continue to be problematic, causing performance and stability to suffer. If you're not willing to deal with any of these tradeoffs, consider a GeForce2 MX, although it will perform slower than the other two cards mentioned here.
For more information, see our Kyro II Review and ATI Radeon LE Review.
