To Sharky Extreme, the most desirable feature of Hercules Graphics current video card lineup is their rampant overclockability from model to model.

Built into the included drivers that are provided by Hercules, each video card allows its owner to jack up both the core and memory speeds of their new card to various levels.

Many other video card companies now include overclocking utilities with their product drivers however, so this fact alone is not necessarily enough anymore to make Hercules' cards so sexy to either us or to you.

What's different about Hercules' cards are the fact that most of them come out of the box guaranteed to run at a default core/memory clock speed that's much higher than the standard levels.

For example, Hercules' Dynamite TNT2 Ultra 32MB card (the $250 one) comes out of the box set to "175/200" meaning that its core speed is set to run at 175MHz while its memory speed is pumping out 200MHz. A stock TNT2 Ultra chip on the other hand is meant to run at 150/183 as outlined by the chip's maker, NVIDIA.

Hercules has applied this same degree of a high speed default to today's Dynamite TNT2 16MB card, as it comes out of the box set to run at 145/170, or a 145MHz core speed and a 170MHz SDRAM speed.

This is in contrast to the NVIDIA recommended TNT2 non-Ultra chip speed of 125/150.

Thanks to Hercules' quality control system and engineering, they're virtually allowing their $149 Dynamite TNT2 non-Ultra card to compete with their competitor's 150/183 TNT2 Ultra cards, most of which cost in the $200 - $250 range.

Not bad eh?