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Review: Leadtek GTS

by David Ross on 3 August 2000, 00:00

Tags: Leadtek

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Installation

The Leadtek GF2 GTS comes with 32mb of ram running at a speed of 333mhz compared to the origional Ge-Force which was 300mhz,To myself this is not a major increase, this is not the fault of Nvidia but is due to the lack of technology/speed increase in the memory market. The core size has been shrunk from .22 micron to .18 micron thus allowing extra speed and is clocked at a mighty 200mhz compared to the GF1 which was 120mhz, shame we couldnt see the same percentage increase with the memory Mhz..Oh well. With a smaller die size the GPU will typically produce less heat, but Leadtek have fitted a whopping heatsink to this baby, I can only asume that this has been done mainly for Marketing/Cosmetic reasons by Leadtek possibly trying to catch the overclockers eye??? Obviously it will help us with any overclocking :o)

Test Setup
Globalwin 802 Case with 300W PSU
Abit KA7 Motherboard
Athlon 750 @ 900 /w 1/3 Cache
Globalwin VOS32+ with Duct
Crucial 128mb PC133 CAS2 Dram
Soundblaster Live!
IBM GXP34 20gig 7,200rpm 2Mb cache Hard drive
Windows 98SE
And my Yummie 21" Monitor :o)

Installation
The card fitted into the Agp port with no port problems, upon windows boot up it advised me of new hardware found, I pointed it to the 5.32 reference drivers I had downloaded, the main reason for using these drivers is that they have an overclocking window included :o)