Price: $ 240 upgrade price from same system with 32MB DDR)

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Earlier this month we gave you a brief look at what Dell Computer Corporation had cooking in their labs, with their rather innovative 64MB DDR-based GeForce 256. Now that we've had the board in-house for some time, we've been able to get more acquainted with it and have dispensed with all the introductory pleasantries and instead gone straight to work.

For the past few months, the fastest gaming video card available has been a GeForce 256 with 32MB of DDR SGRAM. By mixing a powerful hardware accelerated transformation and lighting engine with an impressive 480 million pixel/second fill-rate, NVIDIA has shown the world a recipe for success in the 3D gaming accelerator wars. But for some of us, that just isn't enough. Enter Dell Computer Corporation's GeForce 256 sporting 64MB of DDR SGRAM, which is twice that which can be found in any other SDR or DDR GeForce available today.

This new GeForce 256 is available as an option to new Dell Dimension purchasers. The card itself carries a $356 price tag, which may seem hefty but when compared to a $900 NVIDIA Quadro with the same 64MB DDR-RAM it looks a little bit more reasonable.