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To 4500 or not to 4500

Advantages: speed quality graphics performance very good and better than GeForce cards
Disadvantages: some functions unsupported workarounds sloppy stuttering performance results

Product Specs Different API Supported - OpenGL, DirectX RAMDAC Clock Speed - 300 MHz (boostable by 15% easily) Memory Clock Speed - 175 MHz 2D Acceleration - Yup 3D Acceleration - Yup (or else it wouldnt be a 4500-3d would it? tee hee) 2D/3D graph ...

MrDarkHelmet 12.07.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Hercules 3D Prophet 4500

nVidia is running scared

Advantages: Good value, powerful processor, utilises memory better
Disadvantages: Early drivers

Why are nVidia so worried when they are the kings of the graphics card market? They have the value, mid-range and top-end graphics chip markets sewn up don't they? Not much longer. There's a new chip on the block and it's got the mighty nVidia seriousl ...

cjkace 03.05.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Hercules 3D Prophet 4500

Need some powerVR for all those games

Advantages: works with anything
Disadvantages: not a GeForce III

Well having built my new PC (getting sick of saying that), I need to pick my graphics card, that I was going to use to power my 3D games. After all that's what I built it for. The only thing was that I had to go for a sort of budget graphics card that cou ...

gadget_guy 01.01.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Hercules 3D Prophet 4500

Ultimate money saver.

Advantages: Impressive performance upgrade at a price the Bank Manager would agree with.
Disadvantages: Not as many features as some more expensive cards.

Its every gamers worst nightmare, yes we have all faced it you have bought a new game that you have been looking forward to playing for a very long time, you start to play it with great anticipation and then out of nowhere it hits you the realization that ...

Blue2001 30.09.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Hercules 3D Prophet 4500

Complete rubbish to be perfectly honest!

Advantages: Nice packaging.
Disadvantages: Virtually everything about this card.

...going to admit that I'm not a graphics card expert by any means. However, I know when I have a good card, and I know when I have an appalling card. The Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 IS an appalling graphics card. What's so bad about it then? W ...

storpey 12.05.2004 · Read full review
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