VisionTek VisionTek XTASY 6564 AGP 64MB GeForce3 TI 200

VisionTek Xtasy 6564

VisionTek XTASY 6564 AGP 64MB GeForce3 TI 200 Review, by Alexandra Krasne December 17, 2001

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• Reviewed by: DeVyper

  Strengths: Good Performance, TV Out

  Weaknesses: Lack of Support from Visiontek, Cheap Cooling

  Overall: 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.

• Reviewed by: AlexanderAkulick

  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: 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.

• Reviewed by: Cybrid1

  Strengths: Most Bang For the buck

  Weaknesses: Very hard to Find nowadays

  Overall: This Video Card is Pimp to say the least. I have to give it the Most bang for your buck award. Although Very hard to come by knowadays I would have to say you should purchase A Gf3 Card before you purchase a GF4 MX.. Stay away from MX They are Brutal cards.. Anyways If you can spare the money buy a GF3 Ti500 but GF3 Ti200 is known the less a Great Video card For any game so far. I have Played Almost every game on the market and have had remarkable frame Rates. If you ever have Problems with this vard Make sure it isn't your Drivers.

• Reviewed by: IFlySlow

  Strengths: Anti-aliasing works well in Flight Sim 2002...noticably sharper renderings of planes

  Weaknesses: No improvement in frame rates...in fact, frame rates went down...FS2002 is like a slide show now

  Overall: I'm disappointed, since I researched this card heavily before investing in it. At least I got great service from ENPC. Ordered the card on a Wednesday and rec'd it the next day, even though I chose UPS Ground as the shipping method. I've only owned the card for a day now, and haven't had time to tweak it, but I plan to invest a little more time working with it before I give up on it completely. It's possible that the bottleneck is my computer (e-Machines eMonster 500a; P3/500; 256MB, 13GB & 20GB drives (20GB has dual cooling fans blowing air over it from the front of the case)). I guess I could always invest in a new Athlon XP-based computer (wink).

• Reviewed by: rtronics

  Strengths: Works with the Intel d850 d845 motherboards

  Weaknesses: Price

  Overall: I had tested several gf2 and gf3 cards to find out which ones were compatible with the systems boards we will be using, the video card mfg are not very reliable when it comes to what works with what and to many times they will say its a bad Motherboard when their card is incompatible with a MB This is the issue with 3.3vdc cards and 1.5vdc agp slot motherboards. I would have to say this is the card we will be installing in our systems.