Jazz Does AGP and PCI on Same Card

Upgrading sucks. For those gamers who like to build their PCs, it is sometimes easier to pull many of your old parts out and add them to your newly upgraded machine (and sometimes scrap or sell the old parts). With the new AGP standard for Pentium II motherboards, many speed demons want the fastest graphics possible. But if you don't have the money now and want to upgrade your PCI video card, you had some tough decisions to make, until now.

Jazz Multimedia's new Outlaw 3D graphics card has stepped over the line first by supporting both the PCI and AGP bus. What does this mean for you? When (or if) you upgrade to an AGP machine, you already have an AGP card in your old system.

The Outlaw 3D uses the Rendition Verite 2200 chipset for both 2D and 3D graphics. It supports both Windows 95 and Windows NT as well as DirectX, OpenGL, and Speedy 3D.

"In a market where the average life span of a video card is six to twelve months, this product can stay with the consumer as they upgrade," explains Jin Kim, Jazz Multimedia product manager. "This gives more value for the consumers' dollar by giving them an upgrade path built right into the product itself for future technologies and platforms."

On the geek side, the Outlaw 3D supports 4MB, 8MB, and higher configurations with a 100MHz memory architecture and 230MHz RAMDAC. Top resolution peaks off at 1,600x1,200 with 65K colors at 60Hz to 75Hz. Fill rates for the card edge in at 45 million pixels per second.