I'm going to hazard a guess it was labeled incorrectly, I would not think that Asus would intentionally be trying to sell this model card as the ULTRA.

The fact you found the GPU labeled as a GTS model seems to indicate that is indeed correct.

When the BIOS screen appears, does the GPU bios show up and identify the card ???

BigBodZod wrote:

I'm going to hazard a guess it was labeled incorrectly, I would not think that Asus would intentionally be trying to sell this model card as the ULTRA.

The fact you found the GPU labeled as a GTS model seems to indicate that is indeed correct.

When the BIOS screen appears, does the GPU bios show up and identify the card ???

it's indentified as a V7700ti

But this is how a GF 2 Ti gpu should be labeled
http://www.hattix.co.uk/hardware/gf2ti_big.jpg

The benchmark also speaks for itself...or maybe it's my crappy VIA chipset that is the bottleneck 😁

maybe the previous owner tampered with the BIOS for some obscure reason?

keropi wrote:

maybe the previous owner tampered with the BIOS for some obscure reason?

The card has a V7700ti 64m sticker so I don't think it's a tampered card

ah.... strange.... unless nvidia at some point in the start made Ti chips labeled as gts ones... how are the timings on that card? do they match Ti specs?

I don't think the markings were really set in stone. It's probably just a case where they had a surplus of good GTS-marked bins, so they used 'em as Ti's. All the later .15 micron NV15 chips used the same silicon anyway, and IIRC pretty much all of 'em would do ~300mhz, well over the stock Ti speed.

Have to find something like GPU-Z for win98 so I can see the chip spec.
That will solve this mystery

Anyone have a tip on where to find such a util?