Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT 32 MB PCI Graphics Card

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005QFYF
• Item model number: 4766042
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #221,972 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 17, 2005

Product Description

Product Description
3D graphic rendering is now available to all, thanks to the revolutionary designed 3D Prophet 4000XT. The 4000XT is designed to solve your graphic needs without creating a void in your bank account. The 4000XT creates lifelike images through its tile-based rendering process. This innovative 3D graphic rendering format reproduces only the visible aspects of an object, reducing the workload, but not the image quality.With this new way of rendering images, objects not only increase in accuracy, but color quality is also enhanced thanks to the Internal True Color system. All the blending operations on all the pixels in each tile are performed on-chip in full 32-bit color (16.7 million colors) - whether in 16-bit or 32-bit mode. In 16-bit mode, at the end of the blending process, the final texture is trimmed to its 16-bit value. This way, the image quality in 16-bit mode is as close as you can get to 32-bit image quality.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cheaply Made, December 25, 2004

By	ARR-TURR - See all my reviews

When I first got this card I expected a great budget card. It was great for old games such as Half-Life, and Quake 2. However, the card had zero durability. Couple months after I got it I started getting strange graphical artifacts in OpenGL. This happened because the cooling fan failed. It still worked fine, but the thermal compound blew away. I replaced the fan and the compound but the artifacts were still there. It caused pernament damage to the card. I got the card replaced at the store with great difficulty. The jackass at the store didn't believe me that the card was broken. The card worked fine, but several months later the artifacts appeared again. I replaced the fan again and the thermal compound but I guess the card is pernamently damaged again. Also the card didn't fit in my new motherboard! I decided to get a different video card. I can safely say that my S3 Trio with no 3D support was better than this piece of crap. The card can't function normally without breaking down. Buying this card is suicide. I will never buy another Hercules product again. The quality of the product is abysmal.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great card for an older PC, April 10, 2003

By	Jeffrey Morse (Oroville CA USA) - See all my reviews

I installed this card on my 500mhz Celeron PC with PCI slots only. It had integrated Intel graphics (which are horrible) and this card really breathed some new life into it. My "megapixels per second" on PC Pitsop.com went from a pathetic 15 to 60! I can actually play a few games now (one or two year old hand-me-downs from a friend like Diablo II!). The card has great drivers and is very stable with my old system. A PNY GeForce4 MX440se card was a mess on my PC with errors and crashes continually (returned it). The Hercules card is solid as a rock! Highly recommended!