NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400/4600 Roundup - April 2002

Visiontek Xtasy GeForce4 Ti 4400

What does it take to be the first Ti 4400 to hit the streets? If you have a look at Visiontek's Xtasy Ti 4400 you'll see that it doesn't take much, just a strict adherence to NVIDIA's reference design and strong retailer connections. In fact, as far as availability goes, Visiontek is the easiest out of all of these cards to find which is a definite plus.

As was the case with the ASUS and MSI Ti 4400 cards, the Xtasy Ti 4400 has no heatsinks on its memory and uses the reference NVIDIA heatsink/fan unit attached using thermal glue. The stock setup didn't help this card too much in our thermal tests as it ended up scoring far worse than the top-performing MSI solution. One benefit of this was that the fan wasn't as loud as the MSI unit.

And just like all of the other Ti 4400 cards, there was only a single Sil 164 TMDS transmitter on the board with no DVI-to-VGA adapter provided in the box. The card comes with a sparse software package but at a great price. If you're buying locally then this is probably your own option however if you aren't averse to buying online then you'll be much better off with the MSI card. If Visiontek bundled the card with a DVI-to-VGA adapter we'd be able to recommend this card over the MSI as the cheapest Ti 4400 for those users who only want dual VGA outputs and nothing more.