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VisionTek XTASY 6564 AGP 64MB GeForce3 TI 200
VisionTek Xtasy 6564
The moderately priced Xtasy 6564 compares well with costlier graphics boards.
Alexandra Krasne
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WHAT'S HOT: The first card we've tested with NVidia's midrange GeForce3 Ti 200 chip, the $180 VisionTek Xtasy 6564 did surprisingly well, even against higher-end boards. In Unreal Tournament, this card's frame-rate and image-quality scores matched those of the much more expensive VisionTek Xtasy 6964 GeForce3 Ti 500. In Quake III, the lower-priced board ran neck-and-neck with its sibling in all but 1600 by 1200 resolution at 32-bit color (it hit 62 frames per second, while the higher-end Xtasy 6964 hit a marginally better 67 fps).
WHAT'S NOT: In our Unreal Tournament tests, game play was slightly jerky. We saw some texture anomalies in Test Drive 6, in which yellow shapes appeared and the screen occasionally went dark for a moment. Also, we had to install the card's drivers manually because Autorun didn't work on the driver CD.
WHAT ELSE: The card comes with a driver disc, color-calibration software, and a coupon for PowerDVD playback software. The hardware is on the skimpy side, with only an S-Video-out port.
UPSHOT: This is an excellent card at a moderate price, although it might be best to wait until NVidia has fine-tuned its new Detonator drivers before you buy.
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