VOODOO 4 Against ATI Radeon.

Advantages: Fast, Range of Features
Disadvantages: Pretty Slow

...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...

Sexy_Young_God 26.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of ATI RADEON 7000

ATI Radeon DDR

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 (the card has TV out as standard as well as VGA). Once installed in the machine, Windows identifies the card as a standard PCI VGA card and up it comes with no problems. Then comes the driver intallation. The CD autoruns and gives you a number of options of which one is intall. This gives you the option to install the card drivers and mulitmedia center (version 7.2 with the DVD player...

zoomzoom2002uk 04.05.2002 · Read review
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Review of ATI RADEON DDR

ATI - What an image!!

Advantages: Easy to install, Good price, Great image quality
Disadvantages: Much cheaper in USA

...Well then, are you tired of squinting trying to read fuzzy print and workout blurry out of focus pictures? In that case, maybe a new graphics card is just what your computer needs. I wouldn't recommend upgrading your graphics card unless you have a invested in a decent monitor. So first things first make sure you have a good monitor otherwise you will not benefit from the changes. You need to bear in mind that graphics card connectors come in two main formats, PCI and AGP..... I highly recommend NOT installing the card yourself if you don't know the difference between the two. If you have any qualms at all the best thing to do would be take it to a professional or friend who has some good IT knowledge. If you make any mistakes not only could it be really annoying but cause some expensive damage to your system - you have been...

D_bo 13.06.2005 · Read review
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Review of ATI RADEON 9000 Pro

Sound blaster PCI64

Advantages: Extra bundled software utils
Disadvantages: none

...Yet another great product from a well known company. Creative labs have been around now for years and always seem to top the market with well priced software and hardware that you can trust. Not only do they supply everything in the software bundles but they offer full support via their web site with tons of downloads and upgrades and with one on one tech help if required. When I bought my sound blaster PCI64 it was quite a recent product and much sought after by those who love quality music and good sound reproduction. It came complete with a CD that contained drivers for just about every model of computer operating system and loads of extra utility stuff like Creative Audio software, Wave Lab, Creative CD, sound lab for microphone use and more. The wave lab is about the most popular one for me as I often like to make my own mp3s...

Trev1000 19.03.2001 · Read review
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Blistering gaming card from ATI

Advantages: Blistering speed. lots of features inc DVD
Disadvantages: bit hefty on the pocket, The creative geforce 2 might be a better value buy

...The Radeon from ATI has firmly established itself as one of the top 3 cards in the ever tightning 3D Graphics card business. ATI have not been known in the past for releasing mind blowing speed cards, but for there more user friendly, does the job cards, like the All in Wonders, which offer loads of features but were never going to take the games market by storm. The Radeon certainly changed all this with the ability leave the Voodoo 5 5500 well behind in speed tests. The Geforce 2 hold a firm grip at the top I believe in terms of speed but its still close. To ATI's advantage though the Radeon does come with hardware T&L and anti-alaising, The Geforce has T&L but it allways did and its nothing new in the card. This cards performs well, and the Voodoo 5 5500 can basically see its dust. ATI say that this card has everything you...

thepanther 11.01.2001 (01.12.2000) · Read review
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ATI Xpert 2000 Pro

Advantages: Affordable system that deals with all display needs, DVD and 3d graphics.
Disadvantages: None really.

...I'm the kind of person that looks for good quality as well as value and one day I stumbled on the ATI Xpert 2000 Pro. I was looking for a decent graphics card for <£100 and the xpert 2000 pro seemed to match it. 3d graphics, dvd decoding, 32mb memory, tv out and would fit nicely into my new PC system. The ordinary display is fast and reliable and can serve both the monitor and tv at the same time with high resolutions, colour and refresh rates. You can get monitor and tv resolutions past 1280x1024 with 32bit colour (if the tv supports it!) and it has seamless integration between both modes. The DVD decoding really took a lot of work of my CPU and is region-free! It decodes without stumbling and offers real time DVD playing. 3d performs amazingly well for a sub £100 card and my games play well. The software that comes with it...

ferrous 05.06.2001 (01.09.2001) · Read review
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Review of ATI XPERT 2000 Pro

ATI Power!

Advantages: Cheap, good performance on older games, TV out.
Disadvantages: Not so good for newer games, HD video unplayable.

...The ATi Radeon 9550 256MB is a great low end video card ideal for people ready to take the leap from integrated graphics to a basic dedicated solution. Unboxing In the box you will get, an instruction booklet with installation guide and troubleshooting, the driver CD, this is useless and you will want to download later drivers off the internet as the drivers provided are years out of date! The video card itself, which is quite good looking as it has been finished with a red board and a silver fan with the ATi logo on it. Finally a cable for connecting your card to a TV set. Everything you need to get going. Features & Performance This card is for AGP and will work on older computers that have an AGP 4x or 8x slot, a more recent machine will have PCI Express so make sure you know what your PC supports before purchasing. The card...

hackersupr 18.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of HIS Excalibur Radeon 9550

Wonder if the ATI All-In-Wonder is for you?

Advantages: Video Capture, Video Out, Includes Software, Cheap!
Disadvantages: A bit out of date and obsolete compared to newer ones

...The ATI AiW (All-In-Wonder) Radeon. The ATI All-In-Wonder graphics card range gives you an abundant of features including video capture, video out, TV tuner, and Teletext. Capture video onto your computer, view what you play/do on your computer on your TV and record it to tape. Lets you connect via Composite video, and S-Video to and from your computer. -------------------------------------- *********Features********** -------------------------------------- GRAPHICS - 2D graphics accelration - CHARISMA ENGINE - PIXEL TAPESTRY Architcture - VIDEO IMMERSION Engine - 32MB DDR Graphics memory - Video Capture Capabilities - AGP 2x/4x TV ON DEMAND VIDEO - video editing - Still image and MPEG-2* Motion video capture - Hardware DVD video playback - Digital audio during DVD playback - Video output to TV or VCR...

Deru 03.12.2003 · Read review
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Review of ATI All-In-Wonder RADEON

The card ATI was just waiting to unleash

Advantages: Blistering speed, lots of features
Disadvantages: pretty pricey

...The Radeon from ATI has firmly established itself as one of the top 3 cards in the ever tightning 3D Graphics card business. ATI have not been known in the past for releasing mind blowing speed cards, but for there more user friendly, does the job cards, like the All in Wonders, which offer loads of features but were never going to take the games market by storm. The Radeon certainly changed all this with the ability leave the Voodoo 5 5500 well behind in speed tests. The Geforce 2 hold a firm grip at the top I believe in terms of speed but its still close. To ATI's advantage though the Radeon does come with hardware T&L and anti-alaising, The Geforce has T&L but it allways did and its nothing new in the card. This cards performs well, and the Voodoo 5 5500 can basically see its dust. ATI say that this card has everything you...

thepanther 13.09.2000 · Read review
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ATI Rage 128 Fury Video Display Adapter

Advantages: well priced and bundled with utils
Disadvantages: none

...A great quality easily affordable video graphics display card for a PC. I have used the ATI range of cards for over 3 years now and have never had reason to complain. The picture quality is and has been always superb, and when it comes to installation, it’s a breeze. The manufacturer offers excellent support with both online documentation and with instructions that come with the product. On top of this most of their hardware comes with additional software that can be used for many other things. For example with 128 fury the hardware is fitted with an output that you can connect to a TV or Video source with easy to follow instruction and software that makes viewing DVD films really simple. Even more than that, the software basic package gives you other utilities for playing Cds midis etc. The ATI range are fully compatible to...

Trev1000 13.03.2001 · Read review
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