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Written by Phyro
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Wednesday, 17 November 2004 |
WASD Hardware has published a review on the XGI Volari V3XT. The V3XT is XGI's entry level product. It is the lowest spec card the company currently offers although as with most graphics card manufacturers, the product does however offer the majority of the features as the more expensive cards.
 XGI Volari V3XT Review
I cannot but be impressed by this card. Ok I always gun for the underdog and the graphics card market (well ATI and nVidia) needs some competition.
The V3XT fits into its target market perfectly, its roughly the same price as the competition and offers more features, sounds like a bargain to me. But and there's always a big fat but, the benchmark performance was less than stunning, it was beaten by the ATI and nVidia products hands down, but then again you aren't going to be buying this card for serious gaming or benchmarking, this is a budget/entry level product and should be treated as such.
Bare in mind that its early days for the product, early days mean early drivers and although the current drivers are very stable and I have had no problems with having the card in my pc for about a week, I am sure the XGI guys will be able to squeeze a little more speed out of the card yet.
At no point did I have any game spit at me complaining about a lack of features on the card, It actually ran everything I threw at, the fact that it ran the finicky PC version of Halo is extremely impressive and the fact that a card of this type could actually provide a playable experience (by turning the resolution and options down) is stunning. This kind of money for a card that will actually play Doom 3 is actually unbelievable. Yes it will have to be with a low resolution and low detail level, but the bugger will run.
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