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Asus V7100 Magic

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It does not have a heatsink or fan 

Price: Rs 7,700



Meant for: Mid-level gamer


Features: GeForce2 


MX 200 core, 32 MB memory


Contact: Rashi Peripherals. 


105, Unique House, 


Chakala Road, Andheri (East), 


Mumbai 400099 





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There are several reincarnations of Nvidia’s GeForce2 MX chip. The V7100 Magic we reviewed is based on a crippled version of the MX, called the MX 200 core, which runs at 175 MHz, but supports only 64-bit SDR memory.

The card doesn’t have many features to boast of. In an effort to make it cheap, Asus hasn’t even included a heatsink or fan. But this is in no way harmful as the card runs quite cool, but it might hold back overclockers. It has 32 MB memory and does not include any video-in/out ports.

Coming to performance, this card performed as we expected it to, giving almost equal frame rates to the original MX (Asus V7100 Delux) at low resolutions in Quake III (102.8 fps at 640x480x16), but dropping almost 50 percent in performance at high resolutions (17.3 fps at 1280x1024x32, which is unplayable). In 3D Winbench it scored 37.7 fps compared to 68.6 of the original 

With its crippled performance, the V7100 Magic is priced quite high at Rs 7,700.

Anuj Jain

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