Riva Station reports that Hercules is going to announce a new graphics card based on NVIDIA GeForce2 MX in the middle of February. The remarkable thing about this graphics card is that it is supposed to have 64MB SDRAM onboard working at 200MHz frequency, which will make it the today’s fastest GeForce2 MX in the graphics market.
To tell the truth, a Low-End graphics card with 64MB of memory is a total nonsense. Neither of the today’s games can involve so much memory. Why on earth did Hercules develop such a thing? The reason seems to be closely connected with the memory clocking. The matter is that NVIDIA doesn’t allow anybody to veer away from the required 166MHz memory frequency, because the new faster cards could influence the sales of the regular GeForce2 MX based ones. Hercules seems to have been lucky enough to get NVIDIA’s permission for an extraordinary card like this exactly due to 64MB memory. So much memory will make this card considerably expensive. Certainly, it will be also more attractive for customers, but not because of the amount of memory used but due to the higher memory frequency. Of course, if you are about to get a professional Quadro2 MXR card by resoldering some things on it (see here for details), then the product from Hercules will be just what the doctor ordered.