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Last Year i brought a brand new Voodoo 4 4500 32mb PCI graphics card. I decided to get a new one as the voodoo 4 4500 one had passed its shelf and base unit life.
I went into my local wholesaler who i usually get my computer part off and he recommended to me using the ATI Radeon 7000 64Mb Graphics Card. At first i was tempted to say no untill he told me what features it had. I said that it must have more than the basic Voodoo 4 4500 32mb card, and believe me when saying basic, i mean everything. Its easy to plug into your PCI port on your motherboard, The software and drivers are easy to install, not that you have to anyway. It has a the basic design as many other PCI Graphics cards but i mean the colour of this one shows that it is built for the future. By the way the colour is Red. Now how many graphics cards do you know that are red? I can answer that question right now, Not many.
Moving onto a more detailed description of the ATI Radeon 7000 64Mb Graphics Card...
***The Specifications***
1) It has a revolutionary VPU thingy which i dont know what it mean but it must be good. 2) It support DirectX7.0 and above to boost the visual effects of the monitor. 3) It also has DDR memory interface support fot the new standard AGP 4x VGA graphics cards.
***Features***
1) HYPER-Z technology 2) Video Immersion technology 3) 3D Screen Resolutions are obainable upto 32-bit colour (2048 x 1536) 4) S-Video or Composite output port which gives you the option of conversion between the two. 5) Provides DVI (Digital Visual Interface) output port which is also optional.
Believe it or not ATI's graphics accelerators are the most advanced on the market today. They are built to to improve the performance of the system and display exceptional graphics.
Along with the card you will find a Tv-Out Adapter to plug from the back of the computer into the back of the television. This is brilliant if you only have a small monitor and there are about 7 or 8 of your closest friends and family trying to watch a DVD movie.
How easy is it to set up the software?
Its is really easy to setup the software, in the installation manual that comes with the Graphics card you will find that they have layed out a plan for installation. Unfortunatly they are not diagramed for some unknown reason. So for those of you with little or no knowledge of installing a new piece of hardware it may be a little hard. But it is achievable to get it to work.
***The minimum system specifications to run this card***
At the moment you must have at least the following installed on your computer...
1) 32Mb Random Access Memory 2) 3.68Mb of Hard Disk Space (For the drivers and Software) 3) PII 266 or Above (System Processor) 4) Windows 98 - XP (Please note that this will not work with Windows 2000 Professional as i have tried to put it in 2 systems and it has not worked so please be warned)
Language Support
At the moment the language support is very limited.
German, English, French, Spanish and Japanese.
The price of these at wholesalers is usually around 7.99GBP per Pack. If you were to buy them from a high street retailer such as PC WORLD, TIME or TINY it might just set you back 20.00-40.00GBP. (Sorry for not having the pound sign my keyboard is currently configured to the United States format and i cant seem to change it.
Thank you for reading my Opinion.
Dom ;-) xxx
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Voodoo...now that's a brand that takes me back. I used to have a Voodoo Banshee ages ago. Good choice with the Radeon though, the cards these days really make the ones back then look insignificant in comparison...good review, keep them coming :)
- Karl
May 26th, 2004
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