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

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

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

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 review
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Oral B Professional Care 7000

Advantages: Really Clean Your Teeth
Disadvantages: Price

...ORAL B PROFESSIONAL CARE 7000 **** INTRODUCTION **** Oral B is well known as one of the leading brand on oral care. All the products are the manual toothbrush, dental floss, electric toothbrush and others. It is one of the leading brands in United States and Europe. Oral B product manufactured by Procter and Gamble who acquired Gillette in 2005. Oral be had been one of my favorite choice and it had been proven to give a good result on your teeth. Before this, I don't believe that electric tooth brush can clean our teeth properly because that thing looks like it was not properly spinning 360 degree just like the dental scaling machine. And also I am really used to manual brushing. I had also asked some of my friend that is using the electric toothbrush and most of them said that they are really satisfied with their electric...

mohammadharrisjalil 01.01.2008 (02.01.2008) · Read review
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Alba ISR7000

Advantages: Easy to obtain, very cheap, multi frequency
Disadvantages: Will not work with digital satellite signals

...If you don't want digital but are looking for a reasonable analogue system, the Alba ISR7000 could be the answer you're looking for. Although Alba has a reputation for cheap and cheerful products, in this instance they have gained good ground with the ISR7000. It's a very plain looking compact unit, but internally does the biz without missing a beat, and when you consider that this model is now 3 to 4 years old and still going strong, it makes the competition in most cases absolute rubbish. For example I know of at least 3 friends who have owned or used the Amstrad and Pace equivalent unit, and have long since chucked them as they continually break down. The unit itself is very compact and coloured in the standard black as with most late 90s stuff, it is also exceptionally light making it easy to position in most homes. It...

Trev1000 17.04.2001 (30.03.2001) · Read review
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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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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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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

Radeon Power All The Way

Advantages: Superb graphics at no loss in frame rate
Disadvantages: Installation of drivers not recognised

...After trawling the net for suitable PC's - I decided to build my own one with the help of a friend - well he built it and I paid (and watched and helped a little!). The Radeon 9800SE Atlantis was first for choice based on its cost and the quality of graphics and frame rate. The installation process. Once we had assembled the motherboard, processor, heat sink and drives, the Radeon 9800SE Atlantis just slotted in and connected to the power cables very easily and that is that. No fiddly bits or straining to cram the wires in - having a large volume case does help though. (I would recommend that you use the anti-static envelops when replacing a graphics card - don't let your old one lie around because you may have to replace your new card if it doesn't work - not that Radeon cards don't breakdown but as a safety precaution...

Teach2301 09.10.2006 · Read review
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