VisionTek X1650 PRO HDMI 256MB PCIe

List Price: $209.04 Discount Price: $59.90

Features:

• Vista and MCE 2005 capable.
• VGA, HDMI, TV-Out, HDTV, DVI-D
• Open GL 2.0, HDCP on board, DirectX 9.0+, Shader Model 3.0

Customer Reviews:

would not buy this item again [Posted on 2007-05-07]
It is not working right out from the box. Yes I got my refund back, but wasted 2 whole weeks just to order, wait, installed, and found out it is not working, then RMA argh....Yes, Tiger Direct refund the amount minus shipping (to and back). Next time I will buy from a local store it would had saved me time and some shipping money.

HDMI Works great! [Posted on 2007-10-31]
This is a great HDMI card that will run current games and is very reasonable. It comes with an HDMI cable and a HDMI to DVI converter. You can not beat this for value and performance!

waaay too noisy for a home theater/media center environment [Posted on 2007-11-14]
The fan built into this card was 10x louder than the two larger fans built into my media center pc. I could not bear to keep the pc on in my living room with this card installed. Unfortunately its past compusa's unresonably short return period, and visiontek will not give me a refund either. These cards that are made for HD/media center must start publishing their noise levels or they are just trying to fool consumers into buying them. Had to go with a passively cooled card for that reason.

nice entry-level gaming but no fan speed control [Posted on 2007-11-18]
This is the final revision of the X1000-series 4-processor video card from ATI. It's relatively fast for the money. The only real 'problem' is that they used a cheap cooling fan which has no control circuit to moderate its speed. So even when you're not gaming, and the card's not working hard or getting hot, the fan runs full-speed. It's not horribly loud or anything but it is easily recognizable, a constant 'hisss' noise. I'm probably going to return mine since this is an unnecessary distraction.

BTW I also tried both 'ATI Tools' and 'ATI Tools Trays' and neither utility could monitor the fan speed or control it. And when I looked at the fan itself it just had a 2-wire connector, i.e, there was physically no way to monitor the speed (that requires a 3-wire).

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