Visiontek Radeon X1300 256MB DDR2 PCI Video Card
Visiontek
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I started out by buying a 3D Fuzion GeForce 5500 FX graphics card as an upgrade to the incompatible Intel card on board my Dell 1100 PC to play Guild Wars. Their card was well within the required & recommended specs for the game - but the display would sometimes hitch & lurch during gameplay. Not a good thing in the middle of a melee... The PC is only 2 years old, but it only contains PCI slots. In search of a faster card, I returned the GeForce & tried this card locally. According to VisionTek, this model I am reviewing is identical to the ATI Radeon X1300 model VTK-400073W I bought locally at WM. And if you buy from Amazon instead...as of today's date...you will save $28 on the same identical technology. (I wish I had...)
I am very pleased with the performance of this card. The intermittent display issues the GeForce 5500 FX experienced during the game have cleared up, the quality of the overall visual display is noticeably better. When I click "Auto Detect" in the game's Graphics
I am very pleased with the performance of this card. The intermittent display issues the GeForce 5500 FX experienced during the game have cleared up, the quality of the overall visual display is noticeably better. When I click "Auto Detect" in the game's Graphics
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I searched everywhere for a good PCI video card. I finally found this product. With a good PC you can easily run Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and Call Of Duty 4 with this video card. Basically I updated because my video card could not run these high end video games. I definitely recommend this video card to those who only can run PCI. Otherwise seek a stronger card if possible.
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I had all kinds of trouble trying to find the right PCI video card. I tried several different brands, and returned the ones that didn't work well or at all with my Dell Dimension 3000. I had picked up 2 video games and wanted to play them, but they didn't work because my system's video capabilities were not updated enough to handle the technology in the games.
So after trying a few different video cards and having little success, I finally picked up the Radeon X1300 at Walmart, and low and behold the games worked perfectly. You can even adjust the game performance using the VisionTek control panel, so that the game plays better, or the graphics show better, or somewhere in between. I haven't even explored all the bells and whistles of the software that came with the new card, but that's not a problem. As long as my games and other applications work great with this card, I'm a happy computer game playin camper. It works just fine with my Dell, so I'm not sure what other reviewers
So after trying a few different video cards and having little success, I finally picked up the Radeon X1300 at Walmart, and low and behold the games worked perfectly. You can even adjust the game performance using the VisionTek control panel, so that the game plays better, or the graphics show better, or somewhere in between. I haven't even explored all the bells and whistles of the software that came with the new card, but that's not a problem. As long as my games and other applications work great with this card, I'm a happy computer game playin camper. It works just fine with my Dell, so I'm not sure what other reviewers
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I had all kinds of trouble trying to find the right PCI video card. I tried several different brands, and returned the ones that didn't work well or at all with my Dell Dimension 3000. I had picked up 2 video games and wanted to play them, but they didn't work because my system's video capabilities were not updated enough to handle the technology in the games.
So after trying a few different video cards and having little success, I finally picked up the Radeon X1300 at Walmart, and low and behold the games worked perfectly. You can even adjust the game performance using the VisionTek control panel, so that the game plays better, or the graphics show better, or somewhere in between. I haven't even explored all the bells and whistles of the software that came with the new card, but that's not a problem. As long as my games and other applications work great with this card, I'm a happy computer game playin camper. It works just fine with my Dell, so I'm not sure what other reviewers
So after trying a few different video cards and having little success, I finally picked up the Radeon X1300 at Walmart, and low and behold the games worked perfectly. You can even adjust the game performance using the VisionTek control panel, so that the game plays better, or the graphics show better, or somewhere in between. I haven't even explored all the bells and whistles of the software that came with the new card, but that's not a problem. As long as my games and other applications work great with this card, I'm a happy computer game playin camper. It works just fine with my Dell, so I'm not sure what other reviewers
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The PCI-bus version of this card (not the AGP or the PICe) has a very interesting technical challenge.
This card implements a PCI-to-PCI bridge on the board, and, this messes-up a lot of machines.
Normally bridges are on the motherboard, and the BIOS of the motherboard advertises them in the ACPI table.
Since the bridge comes as part of PnP discovery, the resource arbiter must be able to find bus address space for the bridge and the card.
This can be challenging, because BIOS out there are full of bugs, and, the resource abiter must trust the BIOS before the BUS.
The bottom line is: you may not even see the card coming up in device manager, and, you might need to disable other PCI devices to get this to work.
Dell machines are particularly bad on this.
On my HP xw4200 i got to work by removing a 1694 adapter, and by disabling the Memory Setup in the arbiter
This card implements a PCI-to-PCI bridge on the board, and, this messes-up a lot of machines.
Normally bridges are on the motherboard, and the BIOS of the motherboard advertises them in the ACPI table.
Since the bridge comes as part of PnP discovery, the resource arbiter must be able to find bus address space for the bridge and the card.
This can be challenging, because BIOS out there are full of bugs, and, the resource abiter must trust the BIOS before the BUS.
The bottom line is: you may not even see the card coming up in device manager, and, you might need to disable other PCI devices to get this to work.
Dell machines are particularly bad on this.
On my HP xw4200 i got to work by removing a 1694 adapter, and by disabling the Memory Setup in the arbiter
