No one can argue that the Gladiac is fast. No one can argue that performance it top notch, and no one can argue that it makes for one of the best gaming experiences you'll ever have. Its performance is proven and it is the fastest video card for consumers available today. It's beyond fast, it's screaming and nothing will touch it for a good couple of months until either 3dfx releases the Voodoo5 6000 or Nvidia releases the NV15. Either way, this card is worth having and it's a good investment. It won't become obsolete anytime soon. Through all of this, the card remained stable and worked fine. As for it's anti-aliasing… AA is becoming more and more important in gaming as players demand quality. We all hate those jaggies don't we? I tried a few games with the D3D AA cranked up to the max but it still did not look as good as 3dfx's 4X FSAA. I'm sure nothing will be able to be as good as 3dfx's for a few months. Until then, Nvidia's AA is not bad at all and should be enough to keep everyone happy. It would be wrong of us to not mention the huge performance hit that we sacrifice for Nvidia's AA whether it be OGL or D3D. Since most of the AA is done in software, it takes CPU cycles and GPU resources to use AA. The hit is so large it even justifies you not using it. At 200/333, this card is a demon but lets see how fast we can actually get it to go.

We mentioned before that Elsa has included an overclocking utility with its drivers. This means either of 2 things. 1) Elsa doesn't care if people burn out their cards or 2) Elsa is confident that their card can please even the most die-hard overclockers. To give it a shot, we left the stock HSF on (although it is puny) and used Powerstrip to see how high it can fly.

There is one key design features that should allow the GF2 GTS cards to overclock well, mainly the 0.18-micron process that the chip was created under. The smaller the architecture the less heat it generates. Lets take a look at the SGRAM on this card, it is the exact same as the ones used in the DDR GeForces, Infineon DDR SGRAM, same latency and all. This distressed us because we could barely get our Erazor X2 memory from 300 to 340 while maintaining stability. The GeForce2 has memory clocked at 333MHz using the same RAM, does this mean we can't get the memory clock much higher? Lets find out.

Overclocking this card was a breeze through the control panels. We went in increments of 5MHz until we reached instability, then we decreased by 1Mhz. We could get our core speed up to 230MHz, which isn't bad at all but not as high as we expected. The memory was a different story; we got ours past 366MHz, which is extraordinary. It's a little strange that we couldn't get our X2 DDR RAM past 340 but we could get up to 366 on the Gladiac using the same memory. The only conclusion I can make is that there were some improvements in the manufacturing process of the RAM. Overall, I think that the Gladiac is on of the more overclockable GTS cards out there but it could have been better with bigger HSF's.