Installation

The board was an absolute snap to install as any good board should be, however i'll give you some tips to make sure it installs as smooth as possible. If you read any of the Nvidia news groups you've probably heard several horror stories of people who installed their GeForce and POOF! windows is permanently damaged.  Here are two tips to avoid this. First make sure that before you install the GeForce card you remove any of your old display adapters and set them to use the standard VGA driver. Secondly, if you are removing an old Voodoo² or even a Voodoo3 or Banshee make sure that you delete all the registry settings that point to those cards buy running regedit then searching for all occurrences of 3dfx, voodoo, and so on. This should eliminate all the problems but there is one more consideration to make. GeForce cards along with their TNT-2 siblings have strict voltage requirements. So to make sure that your board will work with your motherboard go to http://www.nvidia.com and check the compatibility list before you buy. 

Benchmark Setup

I ran the following benchmarks to test the card:
3DMark2000 - This new version of 3DMark is T&L enabled. 
QUAKE II - Many games still use Quake II's OpenGl engine so its an important benchmark.
QUAKE III Final Demo - Now considered to be the premier OpenGL benchmark.
GLQuake - Just for fun:) This was at one time THE benchmark.
Unreal Tournament - A new Direct3D Tournament Shooter based on the Unreal Engine.
Dagoth Moor Zoological Gardens - This demonstration of The Whole EXPerience engine uses a massive amount of polys and T&L.

I tested these benchmarks using:
Intel Celeron 300A (SL2WM week 48 Costa Rica) o/c to 466 MHz 103 x 4.5
Abit BH6 Slot 1 w/soft jumpers
128 MB CuBIT Cas 2 PC100 SDRAM
Creative GeForce 256 DDR 32MB
Seagate 9.1 GB Medalist PRO 7200 RPM UDMA/33 MODE 2
Acer 40 X UDMA/33 MODE 2 CD-ROM
Diamond Sonic Impact s90 Aureal A3D 3D sound acclerator
3COM Fast Etherlink XL100TX Network Interface Card
Microsoft USB Optical Intellimouse Explorer with Intellieye

Card Specifics:
Creative CT6970 GeForce 256 w/32 MB Infineon DDR SGRAM 6ns clocked at 150 MHz x 2  = 300 MHz
All driver settings on default
CT6971
Display Driver : 3dbgfw9x.drv(v4.12.01.2204.02.0353)
Device Driver : nvmini.vxd(v4.12.01.0353)
Registry Key : Display\\0001
BlasterControl Version 3.0

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