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VisionTek VISIONTEK XTASY AGP 128MB GEFORCE4 TI4600 S-VIDEO/DVI/VGA (VisionTek-30001522)

VisionTek Xtasy GeForce4 Ti 4600

VisionTek VISIONTEK XTASY AGP 128MB GEFORCE4 TI4600 S-VIDEO/DVI/VGA (VisionTek-30001522) Review, by Alexandra Krasne May 22, 2002

WHAT'S HOT: A leading-edge graphics card, this Xtasy produced excellent details and shadows in Quake III and Unreal Tournament, along with textures that seemed to pop off the screen. Guns and other metal items looked extremely shiny in Unreal Tournament.

WHAT'S NOT: At $385, it's expensive. And since there aren't many games currently available that can use its 128MB of 650-MHz DDR SDRAM and full DirectX 8 hardware support, this is more power than most people need. The GeForce4 Ti 4400- and 4200-based cards are a better value.

WHAT ELSE: In addition to our usual tests, we tested this board in its Quincunx mode. Quincunx is an NVidia antialiasing technology. When the driver is set to Quincunx mode, the chip takes five samples of a given area and averages them together to make a clearer image. In this mode we saw explosions and fires with added depth and intensity in Unreal Tournament. Quake III was a bit jerky, however. At the highest resolutions running in Quincunx mode, most frame rates hovered near 60 frames per second (considered flicker-free, because human eyes can't detect problems at this rate).

UPSHOT: This card is geared toward gamers looking for top performance and speed--no matter the cost.


SUMMARY
VisionTek Xtasy GeForce4 Ti 4600



NVidia GeForce4 Ti 4600 chip, 128MB of DDR SDRAM, 350-MHz RAMDAC; DVI-out, S-Video-in and -out; video editing software, software DVD player.

$385
800/726-9695
www.visiontek.com

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