X1650PRO

Advantages: Fast, Affordable
Disadvantages: None.

...Wow, What a lovely card! And thank god for that. I had to find a graphics card for my downstairs PC as I bought a 7600GS that didn't work?. Boohoo. I won't review that card as I know it works on most computers just my one didn't so I don't think it's fair I review it. This card however- well installed it and bingo! Games work. The problem with the 7600 was that 3D applications wouldn't work. So I went back to my norm and stuck with ATi- I've never gone wrong with them. The X1650Pro is the step up form the X1600 and it has 512MB of RAM. I'm not too sure of the differences between the two but I'm sure this one is faster and has its 512mb of RAM. This enables your games to run smoother and faster. The clock speed is fast and I won't bore you with the details of that but its fast. The cooling on this chip is done by a fan. It is...

coopsta133 29.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Connect3D Radeon X1650 Pro

Are you a pro with an x800pro ?

Advantages: many
Disadvantages: brands vary

...likely to be sold a costly card by them dreaded IT salesmen. Now onto the geeky stuff.... ~ ATI X800Pro 256mb DDR3 ~ With my previous card lacking power and unable to play games to my satisfaction I decided to save up and get something with a little kick to it. After a fair bit of research into graphic card technology and prices I decided on this mainly due to its cost of £75 new. To give you a comparisson, I will list my previous card and the current card details. ATI Radeon 9600pro 256mb DDR Architecture : 256-bit GPU Speed : 400Mhz Memory Speed : 400Mhz (DDR 200x2) Memory size : 256mb Memory bandwidth : 9.6Gb/s Fill Rate : 1.6 Billion This card has 4 pipelines for graphics handling. ATI Radeon x800pro 256mb DDR3 Architecture...

lostsworld 25.09.2006 · Read review
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Crucial Radeon X1600 Pro AGP

Advantages: Great image quality, price, shader 3.0, DirectX 9.0c, H264 support
Disadvantages: Not very fast, there are cheaper X1600's out there

...such unit is the Crucial Radeon X1600 Pro AGP 512Mb. Based on ATI's technology, this card has an interesting mix of features making it a compelling choice for anyone looking to upgrade an elderly graphics card. The PC I wanted to upgrade had what is now a rather dated card in the form of a Radeon 7500. Apart from being slow, it doesn't support many of the features any self-respecting modern graphics card should have. I chose the Crucial X1600 Pro to give the PC a mid-life kicker to help it make the most of newer games and technologies. Features The X1600 is certainly well featured. The obvious selling point is its support of the latest standards in the form of DirectX 9.0c and Shader Model 3.0. It also offers HDR (High Dynamic Range) combined with full screen anti-aliasing. Connection wise it sports a dual-link DVI-I connector as...

ilaskey 12.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Crucial Radeon X1600 Pro AGP

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

*The Radeon x800 Pro Explained in Detail*

Advantages: Superb Graphics Quality, Cheaper than some competitors
Disadvantages: Some users may not be able to afford it

...I purchased a Sapphire ATi Radeon x800 Pro Graphics card about 6 months ago from eBuyer for about £280. Compared to my previous card, the Radeon 9700 Pro, this card provided amazing 3D quality, life-like water reflections, and the ability to run 3D applications and games at full resolution without a visible compromise of speed. You can get the Sapphire x800 Pro version for about £220-250 depending on where you buy it, there is also a 'VIVO' version, which means 'Video In, Video Out' and comes with a Video-in port which enables the user to connect up a digital camcorder or other video source for capture by the x800. The VIVO version is about £10-20 more expensive than the standard version. [SPECIFICATIONS] I will list some basic specifications, and an explanation of each specification as some readers do not understand the meaning...

ff2k 05.06.2005 · Read review
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Review of Sapphire RADEON X800 PRO

ATI RADEON X800 XL. Nuff said.

Advantages: Cheap and fast and stuff!
Disadvantages: Crap box design. So ugly!

...Just when you thought it would be safe to peek around the door after NVIDIA and ATI were bombarding you with top of the range graphics cards, ATI takes a cheapshot and flings an ATI Radeon X800 XL card into your bollocks. You wouldn't press charges on them either, because this is one fine card. Now, those of you familiar with the graphics war between ATI and NVIDIA will know that before this card there was the GEFORCE 6800 GT and GEFORCE 6800 Ultra from NVIDIA. and the RADEON X800 Pro and RADEON X850 XT PE from ATI. Those cards are what you call top of the range, the best cards are called the 'flagship' cards. Anyways, the problem with those super high speed cards has always been the same thing. No it's not heat or power requirements! It's the darn price! 'Price?' I hear you mumble to yourself in an attempt to look knowledgeable...

china_wolf 29.06.2005 · Read review
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Review of Club 3D Radeon X800XL

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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Review of Sapphire RADEON X1950 XT

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

...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

VOODOO 4 Against ATI Radeon.

Advantages: Fast, Range of Features
Disadvantages: Pretty Slow

...red? I can answer that question right now, Not many. Moving onto a more detailed description of the ATI Radeon 7000 64Mb Graphics Card... ***The Specifications*** 1) It has a revolutionary VPU thingy which i dont know what it mean but it must be good. 2) It support DirectX7.0 and above to boost the visual effects of the monitor. 3) It also has DDR memory interface support fot the new standard AGP 4x VGA graphics cards. ***Features*** 1) HYPER-Z technology 2) Video Immersion technology 3) 3D Screen Resolutions are obainable upto 32-bit colour (2048 x 1536) 4) S-Video or Composite output port which gives you the option of conversion between the two. 5) Provides DVI (Digital Visual Interface) output port which is also optional. Believe it or not ATI's graphics accelerators are the most advanced on the market today. They...

Sexy_Young_God 26.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of ATI RADEON 7000