All is forgiven once you fire up some games and benchmarks, however. The Kyro II delivers some impressive numbers. But first, let's go over the specs.

• Chip: Kyro II
• Memory: 64MB SDRAM
• Memory Interface: 128-bit
• Memory Clock Speed: 175MHz
• Core Clock Speed: 175MHz
• RAMDAC Speed: 300MHz

Benchmark Testbed:

• Athlon running at 1.35 GHz
• 256 MB DDR-SDRAM

Cards Tested:

• Visiontek Geforce3
• Hercules Prophet II MX (Geforce MX w/ 32 MB)
• Hercules Prophet 4500 (Kyro II chipset with 64MB)