Visiontek Xtasy Titanium Line Comparison

Posted by Julio Franco on December 28, 2001
Manufacturer: Visiontek     Products: Xtasy 6964 - Xtasy 6564 - Xtasy 5864

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Overclocking

Like I said before, the die shrink on the GeForce2 Ti chip used on the Xtasy 5864, not only cuts production cost but also gives more room for overclocking. Although the default core clock is the same as the GF2 Ultra, I could go even higher with the Titanium. The RAM saw a limit on the 460 MHz mark, which isn’t too bad at all, extra 40MHz thanks to overclocking. At the end the best stable overclock I could get out of the 5864 was 275/440MHz.

The Xtasy 6564, where the spotlight is for sure. Being the new mainstream videocard and like we discussed before, new technology offered at a low price, overclocking results will be the factor that determines if spending the big bucks on the faster 6964 are worth the money or not. Be aware that results can change between cards and batches sent to retail stores. As long as memory goes, the highest I could get it was 440MHz, which gets me to believe that it uses the same memory found on the 5864. Core overclocking went better than I expected, unfortunately NVIDIA's built in driver wouldn't let me go any higher than 220MHz, even at that speed the card seemed stable.

Last but not least, the Xtasy 6964 based on the Titanium 500 chip worked stable at 255/570 MHz, impressive overclocking for this product since it’s the fastest clocked card of the family.

Conclusion

Overall, Visiontek has done a great job with the Xtasy Titanium line. Even though they were by far the first manufacturer with Ti cards available on the streets, we haven’t heard of any kind of problems related to the quality of the boards. If you have read our Xtasy 6964 review then you can probably remember we had a problem with the card BIOS and Visiontek’s response was fast. I was told Visiontek has invested in adding staff to their support team. This is a positive point considering they are new to the retail market and never had to deal with the end user before. Then of course, a quality product is expected when you are offered lifetime warranty, like Visiontek does with the Xtasy Titanium line.

One last comment before going into conclusions is that Visiontek is obviously pursuing the consumer looking for raw performance, less bells & whistles, but to the point; you get high performing cards, with a crappy, almost non-existent software bundle, but at a lower price.

Xtasy 5864
The card performs very fast even in the latest games, however the weak point of the GeForce 2 Ti is the competition given by NVIDIA's own GeForce 3 Ti 200, cards based on that chip should only retail for 40 extra bucks.

3D Spotlight review score:
7/10

Xtasy 6564
The sweet spot, good overclocking potential that should get you up at least to the original GeForce 3 performance. The cards are cheap also, I remember finding these cards at only $99 after rebate, too bad I didn't get one, heh.

3D Spotlight review score:
9/10

Xtasy 6964
You want the fastest thing out there. Get a Xtasy 6964 then. It shouldn't be that bad if you consider that the original GeForce 3 boards were selling for similar prices just a few months ago. Performance of these boards can't be touched. BTW, you can check out my complete review of the 6964 here.

3D Spotlight review score:
9/10

Manufacturer: Visiontek     Products: Xtasy 6964 - Xtasy 6564 - Xtasy 5864

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Select NVIDIA/Visiontek Titanium Line - The Xtasy 5864 Xtasy 6564 & 6964, and some specs Benchmarks - OpenGL (Quake3 & Serious Sam results) Benchmarks - Direct3D (Max Payne & 3DMark 2001 results) Overclocking and Conclusion

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