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| Date Reviewed: 01/18/2006 |
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Strengths: decent performance, perfect for daily use
Weaknesses: nothing so far
Summary: This is a decent video card, perfectly fit you on regular non-gaming use. Besides, you might be able to overclock it to achieve higher performance. In particular, I got it for only $70 after rebate, for such price you cannot go wrong.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/18/2005 |
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Strengths: Fast 256bit Memory, Overclocks Well On stock cooler, Incredible Price/Performance, Lifetime Warrenty
Weaknesses: Only DDR And not GDDR3, only 128MB of onboard ram, ATI Drivers are not as good as Nvidias
Summary: 2005-10-20 00:18:48 I bought this card and I installed it. This card blew away my expectations! I played Battlefield 2, with not one glitch, Halflife 2, Doom 3, all at full detail and this card took care of them. Played out better then my XFX 6600GT with a few more FPS. Then I overclocked this puppy to PRO speeds on stock cooler! Not a single artifact! (Mem @ 900, Core @ 475) The only difference between a pro and this is another 128MB of ram, and this does not have GDDR3. Also, some Pros have 16 pipes, this only has 12. But for 1/2 to 1/3 the price, who can complain!!! this card is amazing and i will be keeping it in my machine and selling my XFX 6600gt now! 8 out of 10
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| Date Reviewed: 03/31/2006 |
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Strengths: DirectX 9 support. HDTV. Quiet fan
Weaknesses: Not so fast with newer games such as Battlefield
Summary: 2006-04-10 19:15:03 I ran this card with all the good old games and they are smooth as butter 40-60 FPS. The newer games albeit go well are a bit slower FPS at about 20-35 for BF2. I have no problem with a 350W power supply. It's a good deal w/rebate from a major computer company.
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| Date Reviewed: 02/21/2006 |
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Strengths: FAST! HDTV output.
Weaknesses: None
Summary: This video card is installed on my Compaq 1710 desktop. I primarily use this computer as a media center. Now with this video card, it suddenly become a fantastic video game machine. Radeon X800 is sufficient for almost every game nowadays. Plus, this card has HDTV ouput which makes the connection between my computer and a regular projection HDTV very easy. In all, this is a great video card for the gamers who has a limited budget.
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| Date Reviewed: 12/30/2005 |
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Strengths: Run perfect with 3-D games
Weaknesses: Not 256MB
Summary: basically it's good enough to play any high vedio demanding games to date, but you have set it at it's maximum level. That is all I can say now.
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| Date Reviewed: 03/31/2006 |
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Strengths: Good price. Powerful card
Weaknesses: Over head and random reboot
Summary: I had a 9800PRO and decided to upgrade to this PCI-E. Installation is pretty easy. Download the latest Catalyst and everything works fine. However gaming experience is less than I expected. If I turn everything to max, I get reboot problem. But for $70, it's really good value.
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| Date Reviewed: 01/29/2006 |
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Strengths: Good price and performance
Weaknesses: only 128 mB
Summary: I upgraded my Geforce 6600 card to be this one. It's cheap with rebate. My system won't lag any more when browsing. Pretty good at handling common games, but 128 MB seems to be a little bit small for future use.
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| Date Reviewed: 12/31/2005 |
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Strengths: Solid performance for daily use
Weaknesses: Not really can think any
Summary: This is a solid PCIE card with reasonable price. Also, with $75 rebate, I believe it is the best deal now. For a serious gamer, you can go for something else, for average user and average gamer, this is more than enough.
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| Date Reviewed: 03/03/2006 |
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Strengths: cheap, powerful
Weaknesses: fan is a bit noise.
Summary: Recently upgraded my systemboard to ASUS A8N-E which fully supports PIC-E graphic card, so I bought this card. I am not really gaming person, but it does make me feel very happy when I play car racing games. Much better than my old FX5200. Very nice design, ans supports DVI (well, good reason to spend $$ on my next LCD monitor.)
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| Date Reviewed: 02/15/2006 |
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Strengths: low price, easy overclocks on stock cooler
Weaknesses: NA
Summary: I use this card to replace the on board video on the compaq desktop, althought the heatsink on this card is small, I am able to Overclocking to (440/420) from the stock config (390/350) without any problem.
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| Date Reviewed: 02/06/2006 |
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Strengths: Lifetime warranty. Cheap price.
Weaknesses: DDR instead of GDDR3 memory. Card runs hot.
Summary: The card is awesome in terms of the power you get for your buck. Its an impressive cheap little card thats even better than a 6600GT. However, the heatsink and fan combo on the card looks cheap and it only performs fairly decent. The card runs moderatly warm so you should use another heatsink if you can find one.
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| Date Reviewed: 02/03/2006 |
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Strengths: price
I/Os
Weaknesses: very small heatsink
PCI-E still not very prevalent
Summary: The card is solid. The specs should speak for themselves, and I am not going to go into a frame per second comparison like some people. This card works well for anything you could throw at it. Part of this is the fact that the card is in the upper ranks of video cards at the moment. The other part of this is actually due to the video game industry making more ports from consoles and less computer based games. Console games are always inferior in terms of controls, complexity, and graphics.
The one negative that I see on this card is that the heatsink is rather small for a graphics card these days. Many graphics cards take up multiple slots because the heatsink is so big. I have not heard of this card overheating from anyone else, but the heatsink is really rather puny compared to other cards on teh market. It also dumps the heat right back into the case like the old style cards. Not optimal. Might want to invest in a non-stock heatsink / fan unit.
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| Date Reviewed: 02/02/2006 |
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Strengths: Price, Performance, Interface
Weaknesses: None.
Summary: This is a nice mid-level card that has strong performance for its price, and is excellent for use on a home or office machine. it has dual video connectors so it can drive 2 monitors together, and it also has component video outputs for connection to a TV. overall its an excellent card for everyday use at a great price.
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| Date Reviewed: 01/30/2006 |
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Strengths: Fast chip X800.
PCIE 16x is latest bus.
Have both DVI and s-video out as well as VGA
Weaknesses: Only has 128Mb of memory
Fan is loud
take a lot of power
Summary: Overall a very good card for only $70 after rebate.
I didnot try to overlock it, it is fast enough for 99.99% game right now.
I am very satisfied.
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| Date Reviewed: 01/26/2006 |
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 Good card, but not just what expected. Strengths: excellent FPS
Weaknesses: loud fan. 3d mark score
Summary: Powerfull card for under $100 dollars. Can't find a card this powerfull for this price at any retail store, would have to go online top get it this cheap. Definate improvement over ATI Radeon 9200 128. Can now run HL 2, Quake 4 and many other games with High settings. Perfect Came with a rebate too, but you sometimes the rebates don't come.
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