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Sapphire RADEON X1650 PRO

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Sapphire RADEON X1650 PRO

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A good in between?

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4 Apr 6th, 2007 

4 Ciao members have rated this review on average: not helpful

Advantages:
Great Value

Disadvantages:
A sort of go between .

Recommendable Yes:

Detailed rating:

Speed

Stability

Ease of Installation

Picture Quality

Value For Money

evergreen46

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Forget about technical mambo jumbo, you want to know about what the card does, yes it will have some techy stuff here but I will tell you about the cards performance... Read on if you dare?

Installation

As with all graphics cards, just plug and play (so they say). i do know that if going in a m2r32-MVP mother board, it will not fit in the first PCI slot due to a out of place capacitor and DVI connections. A little irrelavant I know but may help someone!!!

As said, plug in, connect up and instal drivers. took me 1/2 hour but could take 1hr at the most. Easy pesy.

Performance

This card has pixel shader 3.0, will do anti-anialising and anistropic filtering. If you want full techs visit AMD website. What this all means is that is will play 99% of the latest games out today. It is not the for runner of technology like the 8800 nvidea or x9500ati but is a far cheaper alternative with enough perforance power. Running the card does create heat, you need to have adequate cooling with the pro version as this does get hot, an artic solution if you have space may be advisable. I will say though, the heat aspect is not at dangerous levels.

HDTV

Yes, via the component cable to your tv you will have HD output although the 1 of 2 DVI connections will be more than adequate.

Catalyst control center

This is a program with the card that will control all aspects of it running. Helpful if you are a control freak or are having some troubles. This is not unique to this card though if a nvidea user currently, handy to know.

Bang for Buck

Performance is very good, is very well spec'd and will be a fine addition to any PC. If you do not have the money for top of the range, this is a great inbetween and will save you lots.

What do I play

I play games like CS:S, medieval 2, microsoft combat flight sim, F.E.A.R and company of heros, why say this, well, if you play them, you will know they can be power hungary games and this graphics card will more than suit your needs. it will give you an good idea of the type of game it can cope with easily.

Manufacturing support

As AMD and ATI are now one (ATI cards work better with AMD than nvidea by the way, the same performance with Intel) there is a huge structure behind you. Although all problems to issues are web based, you can almost always find the answer you are looking for. I have not really tested the system as I have had no real problems with the card but the surface looks great.

Summary

A rather strange review, less techy and more......wait, I am supposed to review the card.

The card is a good value for money go between for when you want power at a lower price. It is worth taking your hat of too and will futer proof you for a while to come. It will not give you the best frame rates but more than you need. For more tech specs, visit the AMD website and search for X1650. Thanks.  

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Comments about this review »

Soho_Black 17.04.2007 16:14

Unfortunately, duplicating your own efforts is against Ciao rules and therefore Not Helpful.

Stew52 06.04.2007 21:37

now where have i seen this before - Stew

cityskyblue 06.04.2007 05:49

Same as the others, sorry but same review under different names is cheating

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