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 | Title : VisionTek Xtasy 6964 Ti 500 64 MB nVidia Geforce3 AGP Graphics Card
Author : VisionTek
Release Date : 20020305
Binding : Electronics
Regular Price : $349.99
Amazon.com Price : $159.00
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Buyer Reviews :
I bought this card a while back so my perspective changed a bit after the recent release of GeForce4 Ti 4xxx series. (Note: the GeForce4 MX series is just a souped-up GF2, not a true GF4.) The GF3 cards were never cheap to begin with. Now that GF2 cards are a huge bargain, the GF3 represents even less value to all gamers except those with an big appetite for the latest and most poweful hardware.
The revolutioary feature in the GeForce3 GPU is the programmable vertex and pixel shaders, which makes it possible for developers to create very cool effects.
Unfortunately, not many PC games have taken advantage of this level of power, and the few that have are very poor in gameplay. So if you want to play all the top games, stick with a GF2 (or a similar ATI); in fact, you should probably get a GF4 MX (the souped-up GF2) which costs less than half of this card but actually gives you better performance on most games. Get a GF3 or GF4 Ti only if you absolutely want the programmable shaders, either for your own development needs or just to be able to get the few DirectX 8 games for eye candy.
(If you want to see what the GF3 can do, check out a few Xbox games that take full advantage of the shaders: Blood Wake, Rallisport Challenge, Project Gotham Racing, NFL Fever 2002, etc.)
Like most other Visiontek cards this one installs easily. Mine worked right away with Windows 2000. In everyday life I don't see any improvement over my previos TNT2 16MB card, but when it comes to games it shines. (But again, a [$] GF2 card would have done just as well.) There have been reports of incompatibility with some systems (AGP problem or power supply problem), so be sure to save all the packaging in case it doesn't work in your system.
(by hbj2000)
Features/Technical Specs :
* Shadow buffers
* NVIDIA nfiniteFX engine
* AGP 4x/2x, AGP texturing support
* VGA, TV, S-Video Out, and DVI-I connectors
* 128-bit 3-D and 2-D graphics accelerator
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