The card does not come with an additional fan on the chipset like most other TNT2 cards on the market today. It also does not come with any full games, just a CD with 20 game demos to show off the card. The ERAZOR III does however come with a thick instruction manual that is a pleasure to use if you are ever in need help with anything.

The installation of the ERAZOR III went flawlessly, Windows' plug and play installation is really starting to work like it should have since the beginning. Instead of setting the drivers to VGA before I installed the card I didn't. Windows still recognized the card on startup, and asked me to plug in the driver CD. A few minutes later after another reboot, I was up and rolling with the ERAZOR III card.

The drivers for the Elsa card(s) don't seem to be anything spectacular like the kind Hercules provides with their cards. Unlike most 3d cards' drivers, the Elsa's drivers do not contain an overclocking option. They do however contain options for changing gamma settings, direct 3d settings, and a number of other useful things. The drivers' layout seemed clean, and easy to use to the beginner. Again, I was very disappointed in the lack of an overclocking utility So, I used the popular utility Powerstrip for my overclocking tests of the ERAZOR III. Here are some pictures of the ERAZOR III's drivers. Click for a larger image.

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