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VisionTek VISIONTEK XTASY 5864 AGP 64MB NVIDIA GEFORCE2 TI Review

by Alexandra Krasne

Though it offers good speed, the bargain-priced Xtasy 5864 graphics board falls somewhat short in image quality.

WHAT'S HOT: The budget iteration of NVidia's newest line of graphics chips, the GeForce2 Ti, is no slouch when it comes to speed. In fact, the GeForce2 Ti-powered VisionTek Xtasy 5864 posted Unreal Tournament speed scores nearly identical to those of the VisionTek Xtasy 6964 GeForce3 Ti 500 card we tested, although the Xtasy 5864's image-quality scores were a bit lower. In other games, its speed scores came close to those of the faster cards in lower resolutions, but lagged at 1600 by 1200 resolution.

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WHAT'S NOT: While this card is swift, speed isn't everything in the graphics-board world. We rated this card's image-quality scores in Test Drive 6 as Average because texture problems marred the game (yellow-gray shapes appeared in the middle of the screen as we played). And despite the high frame rates, game play in Unreal Tournament was jerky at times. Also, Autorun failed to run for the driver CD-ROM, so we had to install the card's drivers manually.

WHAT ELSE: With only S-Video-out and a coupon for DVD software, this card's bundle is skimpy.

UPSHOT: It's a speedy first-generation card at an affordable price, but you might prefer to wait until NVidia has fine-tuned its drivers before you buy.

SUMMARY

VisionTek Xtasy 5864

4X AGP, NVidia GeForce2 Ti chip, 64MB of DDR SDRAM, 350-MHz RAMDAC; S-Video-out; color-calibration software.

$135
800/726-9695
www.visiontek.com

User Reviews for VisionTek VISIONTEK XTASY 5864 AGP 64MB NVIDIA GEFORCE2 TI

Reviewed by: kb8pgc

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Great FPS, Cheap, Plays everything great.

Weaknesses:

Overall Evaluation: good driver support through nvidia.com, runs great with a good system, won't compensate for poor system specs posted by other reviewers. Works great with newer games that require T&L hardware support (NOLF 2 And Battlefield 1942.
Reviewed by: isaman

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Superb color resolution

Weaknesses: Goes to 'blue death' on Windows ME. Apparently, this card does not work well with AMD processors. I have a brand new SOYO K7VTA-PRO motherboard with VIA K133 AGP chip running AMD Athlon 1400mHz.

Overall Evaluation: This is not a universal card. Do heavy research before buying. It also likes to load the monitor drivers twice at default mode regardles of whether or not you change it. Exchanged for PNY's Verto GeForce4 MX 420 AGP. Lots more features for the exact same price.

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