By now, I'm sure that many people have familiarized themselves with VisionTek as one of the leading graphics card producers in the US. Since 1988 VisionTek has been producing video cards exclusively for OEMs in high volumes. However, it was not until recently that VisionTek joined the retail world with their rather bland, though extremely well built, VisionTek GeForce3.

Just like their release of the first generation GeForce3, VisionTek worked closely with Nvidia to be the first to release graphics cards based on the new GeForce Ti series. Dubbed "Xtasy", this series so far consists of four cards, three of which we'll be looking at today. The Xtasy 6964, 6564, 5864 are all based on Nvidia's new Ti series, Ti which is the chemical symbol for titanium. What does titanium have to do with graphics cards? My guess is as good as yours.

(Please note that benchmarks of all three boards can be found at the end of this review).

The Cards

Xtasy 6964

Core Clock: 240 MHz
Memory Clock: 500MHz (250MHz DDR)

The card was contained in a brightly colored box along with fluorescent hands raised high in the air is based on the Nvidia GeForce3 Ti 500 core, this card is the fastest, and most expensive in the series. This is denoted by the numeric index 6964, which is the highest number in the series.

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