I have been a fan of ATI graphics cards for a long time, however, when I came across their first attempt at a 64 Mb card 2 years ago I went off them for a while having spent alot of cash on a card that didn't work prperly, however putting this to one side and being a fan of ATI, I decided to ... Read review
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...have been a fan of ATI graphics cards for a long time, however, when I came across their first attempt at a 64 Mb card 2 years ago I went off them for a while having spent alot of cash on a card that didn't work prperly, however putting this to one side and being a fan of ATI, I decided to take the plunge and treat myself to the new 64 Mb 3D Radeon card DDR VIVO ( Video in Video out), Powered by the ATI RADEON graphics processing unit ...I wan't ... ...do those nice people at ATI say about their new baby???
Well the card features ATI's CHARISMA ENGINE? and PIXEL TAPESTRY? technologies
The most robust integrated Transformation and Lighting (T&L)
Accelerates all of today's top 3D games
Industry best DVD playback
Video capture and TV/VCR-output support (retail version)
I have been a fan of ATI graphics cards for a long time, however, when I came across their first attempt at a 64 Mb card 2 years ago I went off them for a while having spent alot of cash on a card that didn't work prperly, however putting this to one side and being a fan of ATI, I decided to take the plunge and treat myself to the new 64 Mb 3D Radeon card DDR VIVO ( Video in Video out), Powered by the ATI RADEON graphics processing unit ...I wan't sorry.
So fast it goes like sugar off a shiney shovel ( or something like that !!), what do those nice people at ATI say about their new baby???
Well the card features ATI's CHARISMA ENGINE? and PIXEL TAPESTRY? technologies
The most robust integrated Transformation and Lighting (T&L)
Accelerates all of today's top 3D games
Industry best DVD playback
Video capture and TV/VCR-output support (retail version)
Optional video capture and TV/VCR-output support (only for the non-retail versions)
Supports 3D resolutions (32-bit color) up to 2048x1536
AGP Universal bus (for AGP 2X/4X systems)
The Main Features are ......
High quality performance
RADEON? comes powered by 64MB of DDR memory to accelerate all of today's hottest 3D games
With DDR memory you get twice the memory bandwidth for the highest data transfer rates through the pipeline
Delivers immersive, realistic 32-bit true color 3D graphics at the fastest possible framerates
Features ATI's HyperZ? technology that improves memory bandwidth without the added cost of proprietary memory.
Best visual reality......
RADEON graphics boards feature the leading-edge technology of the RADEON GPU
The RADEON CHARISMA ENGINE supports full transformation, clipping and lighting (T&L) at 30 million/second processing capability for a 10-fold improvement in 3D details
3D game characters are brought to life with the CHARISMA ENGINE support for other cutting-edge character animation such as vertex skinning and key frame interpolation
PIXEL TAPESTRY , the RADEON 3D rendering engine, powers up to an incredible 1.5 Gigatexels per second for unsurpassed graphics performance
A very impressive Industry best DVD playback and decent DVD player software .............
Process full-frame rate, full-screen DVD or MPEG-2 video
Hardware DVD saves the expense of buying a separate MPEG-2/DVD decoder card
Integrated IDCT and motion compensation allows for DVD decoding with minimum CPU usage
HDTV ready.......
Video capture and TV/VCR-output support(optional features)
Radeon uses ATIs RAGE THEATRE companion chip for high quality video encoding and decoding.
Capture MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 full motion video at 720x480 30 fps resolution
Grab still images from VCRs or camcorders with composite input
Use video-out to connect your PC to TV or VCR for recording
Create and edit professional-looking home videos using MPEG-2 video capture. Transfer them to CD and to watch on your DVD player. (Ulead Video Studio software required)
Its got the Ultimate 3D game support.....
The most complete implementation of the DirectX feature set
Instant superior 3D game support right out of the box with full acceleration for today's hottest 3D games
Full support and compliance for powerful and demanding DirectX and OpenGL games and applications
So in other words this little baby is hot, it comes in various guises, but prices should start at about £130 for a basic 64 Mb Radeon card, the VIVO version is around £150. but having had my VIVO card for some 2 months now, I can say that its performance is quite impressive, I am running it within Windows XP Professional environment and it runs Microsoft Flight Sim 2002 Professional beautifully.
If you are after a new Video Card then you would be daft not to consider this wonderful addition to the ATI family...
Advantages: good card for the money Disadvantages: Might need to adjust the monitor when changing screen resolution
Having built machines using the ATI Xpert 2000 pro (nice cheap all purpose card) I needed to upgrade my own system to something faster as my Viper II was objecting to a lot of the new games and support from Diamond had dried up. I decided to try the ATI Radeon 7200 which was reasonably priced and seemed to offer a bit more than the Xpert cards. The retail pack contains the card, manuals, CD and loads of cables and connectors for hooking up to a TV ... ...up and running on the ATI drivers. In advanced display settings are a number of ATI tabs which allow you some degree of tweaking but keen to get on with, I left these alone. Testing with some of my older games, the card worked 100% and was noticably faster than my old card at doing the 3D graphics. It also ran the games my old card couldn`t run, with ease. Even with the resolution and graphics maxed up, gameplay was still smooth and even. The only ...
zoomzoom2002uk 04.05.2002
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of ATI RADEON DDR
Advantages: excellent performance, good specs Disadvantages: probably be expensive on initial release
ATI have always had a reputation as the nearly boys of the video card market. They have always been able to produce reasonably cheap video cards, with excellent DVD playback and TV Out facilities, in fact the best video cards for DVD playback are ATI cards. However whilst releasing cards like the Rage Fury MAXX, theyve always been a couple of months too late in terms of releasing their cards in comparison with the competition. However I have it on ... ...their new 64Mb ATI Radeon DDR. I have seen a number of interesting benchmarks pitting this card against the Voodoo 5 5500, a couple of GeForce 2's and a GeForce DDR 256. Before summarising these results I ask you to remember that the ATI card is on its first release, non tweaked drivers, whereas the GeForce cards are using NVIDIAS release 5 I think it was, Detonator drivers. Firstly I saw benchmarks in Quake 3. Here the Radeon is right behind by ...
CyrixDes 07.09.2000
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Advantages: Easy to use/setup Disadvantages: not fully supported by unreal tournament yet
...new grafix card. His old ATI Rage Fury Maxx was starting to show its age, trundling along in its psuedo dual card state. The main deciding factor was the purchase of Colin McRae Rally II, the Maxx could only cope upto 1280 X 1024 in 32bit depth and had no support for billinier/trilinier filtering or enviroment mapping. So the decision was made to upgrade, normally i like to read a few reviews or reports on componants before i make a purchase and ... ...includes one driver cd (inc ATI dvd & Theatre software), two manuals and a selection of cable to allow you to connect the card to your TV via a scart socket
Installation went in first time with no mishaps the card was fitted and configured in less than 5 minutes. After downloading the latest driver revision and DirectX8a (the Radeon implements more features of DX8 than any other card on the market at the moment) I was ready to begin gaming.... The ...
roborski 25.02.2001
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Advantages: Lots and Lots Disadvantages: Nothing Serious
I would seriously recommend this card to anyone who is thinking of a new graphics card at the moment. Is is NOT the fastest (But not far off at all), or the cheapest...but the image quality is second to none. there are no serious issues that i know of. Also it has more Direct X 8.0 features than any other card taday so when more games/3d applications come out with Direct X 8 support it WILL out perform the other cards availible today - so there is ...
scr0t 06.11.2000
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Advantages: Speed and the new graphics enhancement technologies Disadvantages: Driver support and occasional compatability problems
...better than ever before. Could ATI produce something that could blow them all away? ATI certaintly didn't think twice about cramming this card with as much state of the art technology they could lay their hands on. The card comes with 64Mb of on-board DDR (double data rate) RAM, ATI's own Radeon 8500 GPU and support for AGP 1X/2X/4X. It also runs in resolutions from 640X480 up to 2048X1536 which is more than enough for anyone. It was also the only ... ...that needs answering is, how do all this do in the real world? The answer you will get from the professionals varies. The hardware reviews nearly all say it is the card of choice and is a must buy, the games reviews on the other hand say it is let down in games performance by relativly slow frame rates compared with its Nvidia rivals. As someone who bought the card I can say I am impressed with performance but not quite so with looks. The card has ...
monk13i 07.03.2002
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Advantages: TV,VCD,DVD, Video Editing, Video In/Out, cheap for what it does Disadvantages: Not too hot in 3D games at high resolutions.
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256 MB PC2100 DDR Ram
QDI Kudoz 7A Motherboard
ATIRadeon All In Wonder
Soundblaster 1024
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cjkace 17.01.2002
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Advantages: very fast, good quality, nice drivers, high stability, technichal up-to-date... Disadvantages: ...don't know any disadvantage... =)
Hi out there. Today I'm going to write my second opinion for the british ciao. I hope, you'll unterstand everything - my english is a little bad, because I'm from germany and out of school for over a year...
[something about ATI]
ATI is the Worldwide #2 selling video chips for the consumer market and beside nVidia the most powerful enterprise in this sector. The history of ATI's video chips reaches back to 1995 [well, I'm not really sure about that...]. The last video chip was the ATIRadeon 8500, which had a very nice performance while beeing cheap, too.
[the ATIRadeon 9700]
One of ATI's latest chips is the R300-family, named as Radeon 9500, 9500 Pro, 9700, 9700 Pro. Today I'm going to handle with the ATIRadeon 9700 with 128 MB DDR-RAM.
First of all, some technichal specifications:
275 Mhz Core
270 Mhz RAM ...
Advantages: all in one Disadvantages: slower on newer games
having bought this card for fifty pounds, I found it easy to install, and all the drivers were included in the package. Being an semi-enthusiastic gamer, I found that it ran most games smoothly at mid range resolutions, but it also fulfilled my needs including the ability to watch tv on the computer, and record programs on the computer.
I also found the image quality to be superb, beating other competing brands such as nvidia, with many image enhancing options, such as "smoothvision", although it will cause some newer games to run slowly.
One negative point, however, was that the drivers included in the package can cause some the graphics in some games to appear wrongly, but this can be fixed by downloading the somewhat large, updated drivers on the ati website (http://www.ati.com).
Other wise, I find this to be a solid card ...
black_ice 21.09.2003
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Radeon graphics boards feature the leading-edge technology for unsurpassed graphics performance. Powered by the ATI Radeon graphics processing unit (GPU) Radeon comes to power all of today's hottest 3D games. With DDR memory you get twice the memory bandwidth for the highest data transfer rates through the pipeline. It delivers immerse, realistic color and 3D graphics at the fastest possible frame rates. The Radeon Charisma Engine supports full transformation, clipping and lighting (T&L) for improvement in 3D details. With full support for DirectX and OpenGL it accelerates all of today's top 3D games. 3D game characters are brought to life with the Charisma Engine support for other cutting-edge character animation such as vertex skinning and key frame interpolation.
