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Asus AGP-V7100/2V1D

Asus' AGP-V7100 is shipped with a comprehensive manual that explains both technical features and hardware / software installation. In addition you will get a driver CD, the DVD player ASUSDVD 1.05 and two CDs containing a demo of 3Deep and the game Drakan.

Instead of a second D-SUB15 port Asus placed a DVI-I port on their card. Thanks to this, you can either attach an analog monitor or flat panel, a digital flat panel or both at once. Asus also included a converter module for those who want to attach two analog monitors (DVI to D-SUB15). In my opinion that seems to be the best option right now, as you can use almost any configuration you want. Our test model has not been equipped with a TV out.

Asus and MSI are the only two companies that do not use fans, but only simple heat sinks. Overclocking the chip ended at 190 MHz, while active cooled cards were able to run at 200 MHz. Of course you should not forget that a graphics card without fan does not make any noise also.

The driver CD contained drivers that are based on NVIDIA's reference model 6.18. As Asus did not enhance them, they offer the standard functionality - just like the competitors. For this review, we made use of a newer NVIDIA driver revision 6.47 (both Windows 98 and Windows 2000).

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Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.