 Visiontek
GeForce 256
Manufacturer
- Visiontek
Wednesday, March 08, 2000 - Hilbert Hagedoorn
Hardware used
Pentium II 350 @ 392 MHz 100 MHz FSB
128 Mb PC 100 SDRAM
Software used
Windows 98 SE
DirectX 7.x
nVidia reference drivers v 3.62
 General
The Visiontek GeForce 256 is a 32MB videocard powered by nVIDIA's GeForce GPU
(Graphics Processing Unit), it is equipped with 32Mb 5.5ns memory and is bundled with a manual, S-VHS cable and driver CD. This videocard
has S-VHS Output and a DVI (Digital Flatpanel) connector.
A prelude
Today we will be looking at another
GeForce 256 based videocard. It's from Visiontek. I can hear you
saying 'Visiontek, Who's that ?'
VisionTek (VT) is USA company which
was founded in 1988. They primarily focus on desktops and notebooks.
They offer this product on OEM and reseller basis, that means, no colorful
box, but instead you'll receive a cheap box, the VS GeForce 256, a
Driver CD and probably the smallest manual I've seen to date. The
product is almost exclusively sold in the US on a reseller basis.
VT does provide the card for Gateway 2000 on a worldwide OEM basis so
the Gateway systems with the card factory installed are
VisionTek-built cards.
While VisionTek does note sell direct, you will find the average
street
price of the card to be approximately $249-299.
The VT GeForce 256 comes with a DVI
connector, which gives you full flat panel support. Furthermore you'll
find an S-VHS output on this videocard which provides us with the
option to output to Big Screen TV. Except for it's memory the card
looks very similar to Guillemot's 3D Prophet DDR/DVI, however, it's equipped
with 5.5ns SDRAM memory from Hyundai. This videocard makes a
well-built and solid impression based up-on nVidia reference design of
the GeForce.
Coming up: the
videocard review
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