Specifications

with the Creative drivers?
This is a known limitation of the current Creative drivers. Creative may release a driver set in the future that
fixes this problem.
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Q. The fan on my Annihilator is making a grinding noise. How can I fix it?
Unscrew the fan from the card, and lift it away. Blow away any dust that is around the fan. Then peel back the
sticker from the back of the fan (the side you don't usually see) and put a drop of oil in the small metal area that
you should be able to see. Replace the fan and put the screws back in (not too tightly). This should stop the
grinding and will not invalidate your warranty so long as you don't damage the card.
People often ask what kind of oil to use. While I've heard of people using cooking / vegetable / olive oil, and
this doesn't mess up the card, I'd recommend some more 'conventional' oil. Liquid silicon is ideal, and you can
not only buy it as oil for RC cars, but also in the form of shoe water proofer! You can also use sewing machine
oil from any craft shop. Personally I used 3 in 1 when I got this problem.
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Q. Why have I only got one overclocking slider with the Creative drivers?
This is a known limitation of the current Creative drivers - the core clock speed can not be adjusted. You can
download a utility that will allow you to set both core and memory clock at the following page:
http://www.geocities.com/johnkok/Johnnie.html.
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Q. What is the difference between an Annihilator and an Annihilator Pro?
Q. What is the difference between an SDR and a DDR board?
Q. How can I tell if my board is SDR or DDR?
The Annihilator board has SDR memory: the Pro board has DDR memory. DDR is twice as fast as SDR, and so
at high resolutions (1024x768x32 and above) the DDR board is a lot faster than the SDR board.
Note that some DDR cards will have memory listed as running at twice the speed mentioned in the '
What
different types of GeForce card are available and what are the differences between them?' question - this is
because DDR memory is able to transfer data twice in each clock signal.
The memory on SDR cards will probably have pins on only two sides, as most SDR cards use SDRAM
memory. On DDR cards the memory will probably have pins on all four sides, as most DDR cards use SGRAM
memory (although ASUS in particular have made cards that do not comply with this rule of thumb!).
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Q. What different types of GeForce card are available and what are the differences between
them?
The following list is with the cheapest and slowest cards first, and the most expensive and fastest cards last.
GeForce 256 SDR - Runs at 120mhz core / 166mhz memory.
GeForce 256 DDR - The same as a GeForce 256 SDR, except it uses DDR memory.
GeForce2 MX-200 - Uses SDR memory, with only a 64-bit addressing mode. Runs at 175mhz core /
166mhz memory.
GeForce2 MX
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May use SDR or DDR memory, but both types produce roughly the same speed because
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