Price: $245 (No Bundle) $249 (Software DVD Player Included)

Ship Date: Last week of May

The last video card we tested from Hercules Graphics came in the form of their impressive Dynamite TNT 16MB AGP product. We lauded the card at the time for its strong performance showing (particularly while overclocked) and lamented the fact that if it had arrived on the scene a month or two earlier, Hercules would have stolen a lot of the thunder (and sales most likely) from the Diamond Viper V550 and Creative TNT Blaster products that came to market first.

It's May 1999 now, and once again Diamond and Creative stand posied to deliver state of the art graphic boards based on the newest and fastest 3D accelerator chips available. Utilizing the nVidia TNT2 Ultra chip, both Creative and Diamond have gone on the record with the public recently stating that they'll ship their TNT2 Ultra-based boards at a somewhat meager 150MHz core speed and 183MHz SDRAM speed.

So much for the 174MHz Viper770 prototype Sharky Extreme tested and was told would be the part's launch speed a month and a half ago…

In any case, everyone knows that its always best to get to a party fashionably late but not too late, and that's exactly what Hercules is about to do with their new Dynamite TNT2 Ultra.

Someone get the limousine's door, the real star of the party has arrived folks…