GeCube Radeon GC-X850XTP-VIVO

GeCube Radeon 9600pro 256mb AGP 8

Advantages: Cheaper than good brands
Disadvantages: not competitive enough

of buying it, for an extra £30 I could have got a card that would still be good today. My advice for people who are not sure about graphics cards, keep to the well know brands, pay attention to the core speed, memory speed, whether its ddr/ddr2/ddr3 and how many pipelines it has(think of it as traffic on a 2 lane motorway is slow but then 2 more lanes open and traffic goes faster, the more lanes the less bottlenecking). If you have to save money maybe think about buying a card from a good brand but with less features or smaller amount of memory. Don't know if it's just me being unlucky or it's the GeCube brand use cheap PCB and chips even though the core is ATI. ...

lostsworld 16.05.2006 · Read full review
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Review of GeCube Radeon GC-R9600PRO-D3

Radeon 9550 - superb card

Advantages: quality, reliability, durability, price, specs
Disadvantages: none for this price range and production date

. This graphic card I bought to my brand new PC about 5-6 years ago and it is still sitting there. Straight away have to point how good and durable this card is. For all this years I haven't had any troubles with it, even haven't had to remove it from AGP socket, except of cooler routine cleaning. I bought it because of high parameters and good specification when using graphic programs. Obviously I mean high parameters like for 2001 year. I have to admit that I was rendering images and scenes from 3ds max, editing pictures in Photoshop Corel and other similar software and Radeon was doing great job every single time. Have never failed me and probable because of this fact is still in my PC. For general purpose use this 9550 is absolutely efficient enough and there is no need to buy other more expensive cards. If ...

panther23 20.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Sapphire RADEON 9550

ATI Radeon DDR

Advantages: good card for the money
Disadvantages: Might need to adjust the monitor when changing screen resolution

of the monitor but 1024x768 is nicely centered. If you switch resolutions a lot, you are likely to be twiddling with the monitor controls. One thing to note is that the RADEON 7200 drivers are NOT supported on Windows 95 (only 98 and higher) so if you are still running 95, stick with the Xpert range which have 95 drivers. S ince I don`t have a GeForce 3 card, I can`t say how much slower the Radeon is (or if it is) but for the price, the Radeon does a damn good job. ...

zoomzoom2002uk 04.05.2002 · Read full review
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Review of ATI RADEON DDR