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Visiontek Radeon X1300 Video Card - 256MB GDDR2, PCI, DVI, HDTV, Video Card

Visiontek Radeon X1300 256MB PCI
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Item Number: V261-4014
Model: VTK X1300256PCI
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High Definition 3D
Performance & Image Quality to Your PC

Step-up to serious 3D performance and high-definition image quality with the VisionTek X1300 series of graphics cards. For enhanced graphics, the X1300 combines a radically new and efficient ultra-threaded core architecture with ATI’s revolutionary Avivo™ video and display technology. The VisionTek X1300 delivers exceptional visual performance for all types of PC entertainment and productivity. The VisionTek X1300 can integrate your digital home by connecting your PC and consumer electronic devices together. .

Note: Low profile bracket is not included, but may be purchased separately.

A New Era of 3D Gaming
Enjoy a smooth gaming experience and control texture-rich games with advanced 3D features including: a 90-nanometer process GPU, a new ultra-threaded 3D processing architecture, an advanced memory controller and 256MB DDR2 RAM.

Radeon X1300
Connect your Radeon X1300 with your home entertainment devices for digital convergence, enhanced with ATI’s revolutionary new Avivo video and display technology platform.

AVIVO™
Avivo™ redefines the ultimate visual experience for today’s PCs, and sets the stage for tomorrow’s exciting possibilities. Check your board for specific support of Avivo™ features. Avivo™ is a technology platform that includes a broad set of capabilities offered by ATI products. Full enablement of some Avivo™ capabilities may require complementary products.

Shader Model 3.0 Technology
Get your box geared up for the future of games with blazing fast shader performance and watch your characters sweat with Shader Model 3.0.

DirectX 9.0C Technology
DirectX 9.0c improves the graphics, security, and performance of your operating system. Download and install this update for your Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, or Windows XP-based system.


Specifications

  GPU/VPU:  Radeon X1300
  Video Memory:  256MB
  Memory Type:  GDDR2
  Core Clock:  450 MHz
  Memory Clock:  533 MHz
  Interface Type:  PCI
  Connector(s):  DVI
  TV/S-Video
  VGA (15-Pin D-Sub)
Detailed Features

A Closer Look


Features

  • Enhanced Games With More Detail
    With excellent shader performance and 3D image quality, the Radeon X1300 delivers advanced gaming detail. Double up your graphics potential with ATI’s CrossFire™ technology for multi-GPU systems and you’ll have a gaming machine to be reckoned with.
  • There’s No Need To Compromise
    The Radeon X1300 delivers high dynamic range lighting (HDR) effects and full screen anti-aliasing (FSAA) simultaneously while displaying over a billion more colors than competing graphics cards1. Plus, it’s a recommended graphics solution for Windows Vista™
  • Crystal Clear Video Playback
    Thanks to ATI’s Avivo™ display technology, the Radeon X1300 delivers high quality video performance in both standard definition and high-definition digital video.

Minimum System Requirements

  • Intel® Pentium® 4/III/Celeron™, AMD®
  • K6/Duron™ /Athlon®/Athlon XP,K8®, or compatible with an available PCI slot
  • 256MB of system memory (512MB recommended)
  • Installation software requires CD-ROM drive DVD playback requires DVD drive
  • 250 Watt power supply or greater recommended
Customer Reviews and Rating  
Customer Rating:    4.3
Customer Reviews: 24

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Value 4.2
Features 4.2
Quality 4.3
Performance 4.3

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Reviewer:  juggalo 42 on  Dec 04, 2008
Customer Rating:    3.0
Value 2.0
Features 3.0
Quality 4.0
Performance 3.0

i bought my X1300 from walmrt it lasted along time i could play WoW well but the fan makes a weird sound sence i bought it. Good for a pci card not good if you have Pci Express theres way better cards for the money.


Reviewer:  aubz on  Aug 22, 2008
Customer Rating:    4.0
Value 4.0
Features 4.0
Quality 4.0
Performance 4.0

I really like this card and it works. I know nothing about cpomputers so it was a pain finding the right card for me. I was dissapointed though because I was told by the tigerdirect staff to purchase this card over the x1550 card because it was a GDDR2 but when it arrived it was just a DDR2 card. and if you look at the product pictures you can see it says DDR 2 on one of the boxes pictured. besides that I have no complaints and it definatly impoved the graphics for the games i play!


Reviewer:  tbrown on  Jul 09, 2008
Customer Rating:    2.5
Value 2.0
Features 2.0
Quality 3.0
Performance 3.0

I wanted to spruce up my back up system, but only had the PCI slot for video. I figured I would just get the best PCI video card and know that older system was maxed out. I did a lot of research and decided on this card. The cold hard truth is that no card (by any manufacturer) is going to run well off a PCI slot. I'm actually getting lower FPS now than with an OC'ed 5200. I average about 15 FPS on World of Warcraft on 800 x 600. That's not acceptable. That said, the card couldn't have been easier to install and get the latest driver. It was plug and play. My advice: save your money and upgrade your motherboard or even your system. I wasted my money on this.


Reviewer:  Anonymous  on  Jul 08, 2008
Customer Rating:    4.5
Value 5.0
Features 4.0
Quality 4.0
Performance 5.0

If you have a slim line computer you need to purchase the LOW PROFILE bracket


Reviewer:  Beyed466 on  Mar 09, 2008
Customer Rating:    5.0
Value 5.0
Features 5.0
Quality 5.0
Performance 5.0

My CPU is Celeron D 3.06 gigs with 2gigs of DDR. This card runs Hellgate and Witcher extremely well.No problems for almost a year now.PCI's best card


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What You Should Know
DVI: Digital Visual Interface!  What Is It?

Monitors come supporting different video connector technologies:  VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI, or combinations.  Not every monitor supports these, so check the specifications carefully before making your selection.

The Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is the most popular high-quality digital connection for monitors (though HDMI is quickly becoming its equal in popularity).  DVI is a video interface standard designed to maximize the visual quality of digital display devices such as flat panel LCD computer displays and digital projectors. It was developed by an industry consortium, the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG). It is designed for carrying uncompressed digital video data to a compatible monitor or projector, and is partially compatible with the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard in digital mode (DVI-D).   DVI represents a major improvement in image quality over the older VGA standard. 

The DVI interface uses a digital protocol in which the desired illumination of pixels is transmitted as binary data. When the display is driven at its native resolution, it will read each number and apply that brightness to the appropriate pixel. In this way, each pixel in the output buffer of the source device corresponds directly to one pixel in the display device, whereas with an analog signal the appearance of each pixel may be affected by its adjacent pixels as well as by electrical noise and other forms of analog distortion.

Previous standards such as the analog VGA were designed for CRT-based devices and thus did not use discrete time display addressing. As the analog source transmits each horizontal line of the image, it varies its output voltage to represent the desired brightness. In a CRT device, this is used to vary the intensity of the scanning beam as it moves across the screen.

The two types of DVI interfaces are Single Link and Dual Link. Following are the features and benefits of each:  Single Link - The Single Link interface is limited to a maximum pixel clock of 165 Hz. It uses four (4) twisted pairs of wires (one each of Red, Green, Blue and Clock). Maximum resolution is 1920 x 1200 at 60Hz.  Dual Link - The Dual Link interface is most common for today’s modern LCD monitors. It provides three times as many pixels as the Single Link interface. And its maximum clock may exceed 165 Hz. Dual Link uses six (6) twisted pairs wires with two (2) each for Red, Green, and Blue, as well as a pair for Clock. Dual Link’s maximum resolution is 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz. When you use the Dual Link Interface you can use a longer cable because of its higher bandwidth. Dual Link also provides HDCP support, which is required for Blu-Ray playback.

If your Computer supports DVI ports, but the Monitor does not, then a DVI to VGA adaptor is available at low cost to solve this.  Or inversely, if the Computer output is only VGA, and the Monitor supports DVI, adaptors are available for this as well.  For our selection of Monitor Adaptors click here »

Dual Monitor Technology
Few PC users have ever experienced the huge productivity boost that comes from using multiple monitors on the same PC.  Ironically, many of today's PC have the capability already installed, and Windows (since 2000) natively supports dual monitors.  Configuring dual monitors is so easy: just use the second video port (if there are two separate ports installed), or add a second video card or better yet, a video card that has dual DVI ports.  Then plug in your second monitor, change a couple of simple Windows settings, and you have double the Windows Desktop.  This lets you have your spreadsheet and email visible at the same time, or PowerPoint and Photoshop.  The combinations are endless.  And since most of the overhead is handled by the video card, there is little significant impact (if any) on system performance.  Dual Monitors is one of the simplest, yet most amazing productivity boosters you can add to your PC!  Optionally, you can use a dual monitor stand and recover your workspace in the process!

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12 Easy Steps to Installing a PCI Adapter Card
The simple task of installing a PCI adapter card into a desktop computer takes only a few minutes. All you need to complete the job is our handy step-by-step, photo-illustrated guide and a Philips screwdriver. Please note that there are many PCI adapters that can be installed in your computer system. Therefore, this brief guide only covers the physical installation of the card itself. To install peripheral attachments you will need to consult the installation directions that come with the adapter card.
PCI Express - Delivering Dramatically Improved Graphics
Doubling the bandwidth of the AGP 8X graphics bus, the new PCI Express represents the most profound change to desktop architecture in nearly a decade. PCI Express replaces AGP, allowing much larger amounts of data to move between the graphics card and the CPU, and will soon replace PCI expansion slots as well. The PCI standard allows for a 32-bit bus with a maximum throughput of 133MB/s. By contrast, PCI Express will run at 2.5GHz. PCI Express is a two-way serial connection that carries data in packets along two pairs of point-to-point data lines, compared to the single parallel data bus of traditional PCI. Gamers will benefit from an incredible upgrade in video quality with PCI Express, because it will allow for more powerful video cards, inspiring developers to create more realistic environments that will make games come alive with astonishingly lifelike colors and images. Video enthusiasts will also benefit because PCI Express will accommodate higher-quality video throughput (amount of data you can send per second). As network television moves over to HDTV broadcasts, PCI Express positions the PC platform for integration into the living room, while also allowing for HD video editing and other bandwidth-intensive tasks. PCI Express is compatible with existing PCI drivers and software operating systems and is designed to co-exist with current PCI hardware.
Video Card Designs
Today's high performance video cards enable amazing graphics, and frequently come emblazoned with high-impact graphics, or in brilliant colors.  These help to enhance the appeal of the card.  However, from time to time, manufacturers do change these designs and colors, but this has no effect on the features, specifications, or performance of the specific video card model, and will usually retain the same manufacturer's model and part number.  The images displayed for a video card are based upon the sample provided by the manufacturer, and the specific visual design you receive may vary.  So remember, while the card may look cool, it's the specs that matter!


Will Your Motherboard Support the Video Card You're Purchasing? Here's the Answer...

Before you buy - make sure your motherboard is compatible with this video card. For example, PCI Express video cards won't work with motherboards designed only for AGP or PCI video cards, and vice versa. Please read the specifications carefully or call us for expert advice.

Close-Up: PCI, AGP, and PCI-E (PCI Express)

Check your motherboard and make sure you are purchasing the correct cardbus type.

There are 3 types of cardbus slots currently available: PCI, AGP, and PCI Express (PCIe 2.0 is compatible with PCIe slot)

PCI - The most widely used I/O bus, it provides a shared data path between the CPU and peripheral controllers, such as network, display, SCSI and RAID cards. Though limited in terms of performance, they are considered the best value when you upgrade your video capabilities on a PC. The PCI interface can be found and used in nearly any motherboard.
Click here to view our selection of PCI Cards

AGP - The AGP slot is next in line of higher graphic performance. It was designed especially for the throughput demands of 3-D graphics. It offers up to 8x improvement over a PCI card, is 32 bits wide and runs at 66 MHz. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. The motherboard must be equipped with an AGP bus slot for an AGP card to be compatible.(AGP 1x provided a data transfer rate of 264 Mbytes/sec. AGP 2x is 528 Mbytes/sec. AGP 4x is 1 Gbyte/sec. AGP 8x is 2 Gbytes/sec.)
Click here to view our selection of AGP Cards

PCI Express - PCI Express is the newest technology that is superior to both PCI and AGP, in terms of graphic performance. It offers performance as much as 4x faster than the fastest AGP 8X slot. PCI Express connections can support fast data transfer rates, which can be used to connect high-speed devices such as high-end video cards. The slots come in different variations and speeds, such as x1, x4, x8, and x16. Presently, most high-end motherboards meant for design, video production, or gaming come with PCI express slots. To use a PCI Express card, your computer must have at least one available PCI Express slot.
Click here to view our selection of PCI Express Cards

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What's In The Box

  • X1300 256MB PCI Graphics Card
  • Installation CD

Contents of package may vary from those pictured and stated here, due to changes in manufacturer's specifications or merchandising. Please check the product information carefully, items not included may no longer be required.
Manufactured by: VisionTek
Warranty provided by: VisionTek
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Mfg Part No: VTK X1300256PCI
UPC No: 784090024107
Box Size: ( Length: 10, Width: 12, Depth: 3 )
Shipping Weight: .7000 pound(s)
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