Visiontek Xtasy 6964 GeForce3 Ti500 review

Posted by Julio Franco on October 25, 2001
Manufacturer: Visiontek     Product: Xtasy 6964 GeForce 3 Titanium 500

Overclocking

Sure, you have paid for the fastest card available on the market and specifically the highest clocked board on the Ti family … now you also want the best overclocking results. Like we mentioned before, the memory on the Xtasy 6964 comes ready for being overclocked. So, how far could we get it pushed?

I ran the card at very aggressive clock speeds until I could finally get a stable overclock. I should also mention that when I was doing this testing, lights went off in my house for a moment and that caused my card BIOS to get damaged. This was a great opportunity for checking how responsive Visiontek’s tech support is, I talked to them about the problem and asked them to send over a new BIOS, I’m not sure what version I got but they were kind enough of sending the files along with some quick installation instructions and also a mention that the card would now default clock at 240/258 DDR, that’s a 16 MHz increment for the memory over the original speed, I’m not sure if this BIOS will ever see the light but anyway that leave us with the card running at 240/516 MHz.

I used NVIDIA Detonator’s built-in utility for overclocking the card. After some testing I could get the card running stable at 255/570 MHz, impressive overclocking for a Titanium 500 considering it’s the fastest clocked card of the family. Hmmm… I wonder how a Ti200 overclocks; hopefully I will be able to give you those results soon when our Titanium card comparison goes up.

Technical Specifications

Processor

• NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500 GPU

Bus Interface

• 1x/2x/4x AGP with Fast Writes

Memory

• 64Mb 3.8ns Hi-speed DDR 500MHz DDR-SDRAM using Lightspeed Memory Architecture.

RAMDAC

• Built-in 350MHz

Maximum Resolution

• 2048 x 1536 pixels

• 60Hz to 240Hz

TV-Output Option

• S-video

• PAL + NTSC support

3D Performance

• Lightspeed Memory Architecture

• nFiniteFX engine technology

• High resolution antialiasing (HRAA)

• 2nd Generation Hardware Transform and Lighting

• AGP 4x texture support

• Alpha-Blending

• Trilinear and 8-tap

• Anisotropic filtering

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