What You Get

Before going over the installation of the Annihilator Pro, let's cover a couple of items first. Included with your purchase are a few goodies Creative throws in to demonstrate the capabilites of the Annihilator Pro:

• NVIDIA's High IQ sampler CD which contains a variety of technical demos - download



• The Dagoth Moor Zoological Gardens playable demo - download



• Evolva Scout which is a playable demo of the soon to be released Evolva - read our preview

Boxter Demo

DMZG Demo

Although the first two items have been made available over the Internet, it's still a nice suite of transform and lighting enabled software which will keep you entertained for a while. Creative also bundles:

• Electronic Art's Need for Speed 4



• InterVideo's WinDVD Player



• Colorific and 3Deep color calibration software from E-Color

Overall, it's a decent software bundle. But with a top of the line graphics card like the Annihilator Pro, including the full version of Quake 3 Arena would have been the bundle dreams are made of. I'm not really complaining here, but as you will soon find out, the Annihilator Pro and a game like Quake 3 Arena make for a seriously lethal gaming combination.

Specifications

The detailed specifications for the Annihilator Pro are provided at Creative's web site. Here are a few highlights:

• Features NVIDIA's 256-bit Graphics Processing Unit
• Contains 32MB of high performance DDR memory operating at 300MHz
• 4.8 GB/second of graphics memory bandwidth
• QuadEngine which processes transform and lighting calculations and reduces CPU load
• QuadPipe architecture with four independent 3D rendering pipelines capable of delivering up to 480 million pixels per second
• Single pass multi-texturing, capable of delivering 4 texture mapped lit pixels per clock cycle, in true color 32-bit rendering
• Hardware acceleration for Direct 3D and OpenGL applications
• Video and DVD playback with motion compensation decoding

Well, here I sit, writing these specs and I have yet to actually install the Annihilator Pro in my system. Am I excited or what?

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