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VisionTek Xtasy 6564 AGP 64MB Geforce3 TI 200 Review
by Alexandra Krasne
The moderately priced Xtasy 6564 compares well with costlier graphics boards.

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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User Reviews for VisionTek Xtasy 6564 AGP 64MB Geforce3 TI 200
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Reviewed by: DeVyper
Duration of ownership:
Strengths: Good Performance, TV Out
Weaknesses: Lack of Support from Visiontek, Cheap Cooling
Overall Evaluation: This card has overall been okay. It does not have the best 2D clarity, but it gets the job done. 3D is pretty good with no slowdowns during intense action. I did have to upgrade the cooling as mine came with a cheap Heatsink and no fan. I would not purchase again due to lack of support from Visiontek, it appears they are now using ATI chips.
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Reviewed by: AlexanderAkulick
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Strengths: It is just as good as everyone says and I am quite pleased with it.
Weaknesses: Will cause some boot-up delay and performance loss on Gigabyte AMD motherboards running 256 mb. of ram, but is not serious.
Overall Evaluation: The issues I wrote about are known issues with Gigabyte concerning 2x-4x AGP cards and is a problem with the motherboard bios, from my personal experience on the GA-7DX and GA-7VAXP. I re-installed this card on my Compaq 7EL 7000T with 768 mb. of ram, Pentium III 800 mhz. and was rewarded with excellent performance and no problems of any kind. I would reccomend this card to anyone wanting a video performance increase over older TNT II PRO 64 or less as this is a very good card and quite inexpensive now.
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