VisionTek Radeon X1300 512MB DDR AGP (VGA, DVI-I, TV-Out, HDTV)

 (11 customer reviews)

I recently bought this card, and am extremely happy with it. I can enjoy my older games with much better graphics, and can now play games that my system wouldn't run before. I had a lot of problems getting it to work as well (see previous reviews), but that was due to the integrated graphics chip on my motherboard, and not a problem with the card! After following all of the directions that came with it, as well as a lot of ideas I found on other forums (VisionTek's forum is very helpful, and I learned a lot), I gave up and just plugged the thing in without disabling my computer's onboard graphics chip - surprisingly, it worked like a charm - go figure. If you're removing drivers like they tell you to, make sure you only remove the ones that affect the graphics. I have an nVidia chipset, and when I told it to remove the nVidia drivers, it removed everything (causing a lot of other problems).

My CPU's processor is not powerful enough, so I won't be pushing this card to...Read more

I bought this 6 months ago. Black screen. Nothing would make it work (windows XP). I called tech support and they said it wouldn't work with XP without a factory adjustment and that I had to send it back. I did. 4 months later when I hadn't heard a peep from them (almost forgot about it), I contacted them and asked where it was. They said they never got it. I sent them the tracking info showing that not only had they received it, but someone signed for it. They replied that they would send it to me right away. Two days later, I got it. Black screen. Now I'm online trying to find out how to get this dud to work. What a colossal waste of time.

I've had so many issues with this card because of the drivers. I had to reinstall the drivers because the control center (the software to change the settings) would not appear in the system tray. I'm having that issue right now. Also, if you're a hard core gamer you can play it on medium settings. I purchased this card from Circuit City, which was a big mistake because they charged me $180 dollars a year ago. It's selling for a little over $100 right now. The card has some flickering problems and the frame rates are not constant. I'm okay with the fact I have to play it at a lower setting; however, I would like it to remain smooth. It's not a sturdy graphic card, and never will be. So just don't buy this card if you plan to play the newer games. If you want to spend less, then buy this card. I'm not sure how the 1600-1900 cards are. If you buy a graphics card, purchase one that you can keep for a while without having to upgrade. Nvidia, I hear are really good about their...Read more