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

Sapphire's Radeon 7000...What a gem!

Advantages: Fantastic budget card.
Disadvantages: Limited overclocking facilities. Fails to run the latest titles.

...Last December, I was assigned the task of building a low -cost PC for a relative. With only a maximum of 35 pounds to spend on a video card my choice was limited. I finally opted for Sapphire's version of the Ati Radeon 7000 model. It cost about 28 pounds at the time, and is possibly the finest budget card I've come across. One of its main advantages is its stability, I used a tool called Riva Tuner to overclock it somewhat, the heatsink handled it fine! Sadly though, the overclocking didn't produce any marked improvement, the only benefit being a slight increase of frame rate on Counter-Strike and Medal of Honour: Allied Assualt. This aside, the card is fantastic for the price. It runs popular games such as Counterstrike (Non-source of course) aswell as any game predating the year 2002. However, it doesn't run more recent...

Credance100 20.10.2004 · Read review
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Review of Sapphire RADEON 7000

Bin It.... Oh Please Bin It....

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Slow

...f you've read my Geforce 5200 review you will know before I upgraded I had a Radeon 7000. I was looking for a new graphics card back in 1999 so went into my local computer shop and asked what cards they had. They had around three graphics card. The Radeon was £40 and the next card up was £120 and the 3rd £180. Having very little money I purchased the Radeon 7000. I walked out of the shop and looked at the back of the boxed. It said ti supported Direct x 8. The game I wanted to play ran on Direct x 9 so I quickly ran back into the shop and asked him if it would support 9. He said yes it would so I decided to take it home and try it out. The Radeon 7000 has 32mb ram. This was about what I needed at the time. I removed my computer case and removed the old card and replaced it with the Radeon. On start-up I was asked to install...

ReviewDude 30.08.2004 · Read review
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Review of ATI RADEON 7000

ATI - What an image!!

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

...warned! I had decided to upgrade my old graphics card from an ATI Radeon 7000 to the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro with 128 MB DDR SDRAM. I wasn't having many problems with my old graphics card but I wanted to expand the 3D capabilities of my gaming and edit graphics/photos. Seeing as I have a reasonably fast computer (3.2 Gig Hz Pentium 4) with 1 Gig of RAM, I realized that the card, with only 32 MB of DDR SDRAM was the only thing I would need to optimise. I'm not going to bore you too much like most reviews on graphics cards which tend to focus on frames per second, refresh rates etc. The type of mumbo jumbo info, while really important to die hard gamers, is useless to the majority of us. I am going to try and focus on image quality which is more important to you graphics designers and photographers out there. Installation was real easy I...

D_bo 13.06.2005 · Read review
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Review of ATI RADEON 9000 Pro

ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256mb

Advantages: High power (ish), pretty cheap
Disadvantages: heat

...! The card isn't too power hungry, it works fine on my 350W power supply that was supplied with my budget pc (£235 but powerful nevertheless) So far you'd think this card was a really great buy. and don't get me wrong, i love it. but unfortunately i didn't realise you could buy an ATI radeon 9550 with 256Mb RAM and a nearly identical performance for cheaper. It can easily be overclocked with no extra cooling to outperform my 9600 pro, and i've been slated a few times off computer geeks for not knowing this before. If i were you, i'd definately buy this if you're looking for a cheap but powerful graphics card to work on graphics processing / CAD, but also if you're a light-medium gamer who isn't too serious, although seriously consider the 9550 before you go ahead and buy a 9600. Hope this helps!...

tomcollingwood 02.10.2006 · Read review
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Review of ATI RADEON 9600 PRO PC & Mac Edition

XFX ATi Radeon HD 4870 1GB, a great graphics card.

Advantages: Can run almost every game on highest settings, easy to overclock, very good memory speed.
Disadvantages: No PhsX so some games can't run properly or even at all sometimes, some old games dont work.

...The XFX ATi Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5, is undoubtedly one of the best cards you can buy within it's price range (to name a few the Nvidia GTX 260, the Nvidia GTS 250 and the ATi 4850) it is able to play almost every modern game at highest settings at a playable speed. I say almost because because some games require Nvidia PhsX, and I say modern because some old games don't work on the graphics card, Quake III for example. Although Deus Ex Works, as do all of Valves games and Diablo II does, but it has graphical issues and can mess up the placement of your windows. Visuals Almost every game that I own I can run at highest settings with a flawless framerate, Crysis runs at about 20 FPS which is playable but not exactly flawless. It still looks absolutely amazing though and you completely forget the bad gameplay...

tomster785 28.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of XFX Radeon HD 4870 XXX

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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Review of ATI RADEON DDR

The Graphics Revolution: ATI Radeon 9800

Advantages: Small, practically weightless, high tech, durable, gives you KILLER graphics, perfect for games.
Disadvantages: Quite expensive, uses up a lot of pc power

...The ATI Radeon 9800 is amazing. But it isnt cheap. That has to be the first thing to be pointed out. You can get an acceptable laptop at such a price: 200 GBP. Unless you are REALLY into games and 3D game designing and developing, I dont reccommend you buy it. Seriously- you dont need that much power! Me...I just bought it because I'm a computer geek, and because I had quite a large budget. If you are buying a laptop or PC with this graphics card, then the price will obviously increase significantly. If you have recently bought a laptop or PC over the last year, you seriously do NOT need to buy this graphics card. Your laptop would almost certainly have a graphics card, and if its a high tech one then it will probably have ATI Radeon 9600 or 9200 with 64MB of RAM. That is enough to run the most complicated and most performance...

abdulhas90 22.06.2004 (23.06.2004) · Read review
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Review of Connect3D RADEON 9800

ATI Sapphire RADEON X1950 XT

Advantages: Extremely Fast,Over clocks well,GDDR 3. Great image quality
Disadvantages: Not DX10 compatible, does not have the newer crossfire bridge, Loud Fan

...clock speed: 625 MHz 16 pixel pipelines 256 MB GDDR3 memory Memory Clock: 1800MHz Memory Size: 256 MB Memory Interface: 256-bit GDDR 3 DirectX 9 Maximum Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Dual DVI connectors VIVO port Integrated TV encoder S-Video Socket Pros: Extremely Fast. Over clocks well. Runs most games on the market today. GDDR 3. Great image quality, cooler reacts to UV Cons: Not DX10 compatible, does not have the newer crossfire bridge ( makes crossfire a little more tricky), Loud Fan In The Box: Radeon X1950XT 256MB Driver Disk HDTV Cable VIVO Cable 2 x DVI to VGA/D-sub Adapter Price: Around £85 (depends where you shop) Overall I think that this card is a good card for almost any gamer, extreme gamers may want to go for the new DX10 compatible card now available from both NVIDIA and ATI. Although if you...

pfishers 14.08.2007 · Read review
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