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Summary: Stay Away
Review: My belief is that ATI was trying to beat nVidia to market and they really [messed] up. I bought this card thinking I was getting something that would be state of the art, top of the line, and all around great. My problems started out small, some missing text in menus, and got bigger, applications freezing completely. As I did my looking around for fixes, I found numerous forums of other people in my same predicament. There is no help on the ATI site, just links to "New Drivers". Each problem that pops up requires new drivers, did they not think of ordinary problems when they put together the drivers. I'll give it this much, when I ran my own benchmarking software, and it could run, I got better scores, but I would estimate that it took me a good 3-4 hours just to get through tweaking the bios just to get benchmarks to run. Like I said, maybe they were trying to beat nVidia to market in order to beat the holiday rush, but if you buy this you will definitely be disappointed. For now, it's back to the GeForce 4 MX440 until the GeForce FX comes out. Then I'm sure I'll get what I paid for. nVidia for life,...from now on!
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Summary: good if you like to crash
Review: My previous card was a geforce2. No problems, but I decided I wanted something faster. So, I get an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. Big mistake! Every game I have crashes at random places. I love Freespace 2, but now I can't play it until I get a different card. Asheron's Call 2 crashes after about a minute of play. Summary: It doesn't matter how fast a card is if it crashes constantly. Don't buy this card!
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Summary: ...
Review: Myself, along with ... others in the gaming community have had nothing but problems with this card since day 1. It constantly loses frame rate and "stutters" or freezes for most games and winamp visualizations. I previously had a Geforce card w/ 64MB SDRAM with my Pentium 4 1.7GHz processor and 1024GB PC 133 SDRAM, WIn XP Home, and everything was great untill I decided to "upgrade". Big mistake! I haven't be able to enjoy a game or anything with 3D Graphics since I wasted my money on this. ... I have had this card almost half a year now and they released two drivers that would supposedly fix this and they are both useless. I still have all of the same problems. ... ALWAYS Read the reviews before you buy. ... I think I will also chalk this up as a BIG (...) loss and ... never buy anything from ATI again.
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Summary: card rocks, but you already knew that
Review: ok so we all know the card does rock with all the default settings. My computer is only a modified 8100 from dell with a 2.6 P4, 768 megs ram, stock motherboard and WD 8 cache HD and IBM dell stock.
Anyway, I just wanted to let you all know that the card itself does rock but there is no overclockability on this card whats so ever. I have tried with the above computer but everytime get spikes when I run 3DMark2003.
Now, to let you know, with the above computer, I have hit scores of 4950 and higher on the 3D graphics test. Thats not bad for a 2 year old computer! You show me an old system that can even run that test and I will buy you this card.
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Summary: Hey knowitall...
Review: Overheating is a known problem with this card and 3.8 drivers.... why dont u shove your foot in your mouth now, and go baby your machine a little more. Its an amazing card, but the drivers (3.8) are terrible.
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Summary: A great Card
Review: People are saying the the card [is insufficient] because they probably forgot to do something as simple as uninstalling old drivers before installing the Radeon. The crashes and freezes ya thats your old drivers talking not your new card. Kudos to Radeon they truly buitl a great card. :)
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Summary: As good as the hype
Review: Take a grain of salt with all these reviews. There are people as passionate about video card manufactures as there are people who like ford or chevy. This card performs great, but is for a more advanced computer and user. Not all motherboards are the same and will bottleneck this card horribly. Just meeting the minimum specs is not enough. I upgraded from a Gainward Gerforce4 TI4200 and am not looking back. If you ran a previous geforce it is imperative that you uninstall the old drivers as they will mess up any other manufactures graphics cards. The new Geforcefx is faster but by very little and at the cost of a extremely loud fan. If you want cutting edge graphics look no further.
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Summary: Drivers still need work
Review: The performance and value represented by the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128 MB Graphics Card would score a perfect 5 stars with me, if only their drivers were performing up to par. It takes quite a lot to stress their graphics product into behaving peculiarly, but the recently-released Star Wars Galaxies game does just that. As of this writing, the Catalyst 3.5 drivers still render the SWG graphics with frequent "glitches," flickering rectangles and regions of the screen, even when sitting still. I have learned via Sony that this is an issue between the game itself and the Catalyst drivers that haven't yet been corrected. I have tried a GeForce FX 5200 Ultra and this worked perfectly well, so I suspect the Catalyst 3.5 drivers ATI provides still aren't really up to high performance gaming quality standards. This is a pity because it's high performance games that are the main reason for selecting such products! (Yes, I've written ATI about these issues and been completely ignored. I am exercizing my rights to express opinions in a public forum which is not libel.)
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Summary: Great Specs, horrible for gaming
Review: The specs on this Card are impressive and it shows on applications that it supports (Internet Explorer and Office in my case). But the majority of the Video Games that I was trying to play on this card freeze or have glitches, it's most probably the poor drivers ATI is notorious for. Age of Mythology didn't even run past the first frame on this video card. Unreal Tournament froze unexpectedly and randomly (it looked great while it worked) and numerous other games just didn't work properly. ATI's website has a driver which I downloaded in case my driver was outdated, and after installing it and rebooting, I couldn't see my desktop anymore! No more windows! Needless to say I switched to a GEForce Ti 4600 and there were no problems and I've never looked back.
The only drawback right now is that for some reason, the ATI drivers can't be uninstalled! but they seem to be doing no harm so I'll just try to forget I ever got this monstrosity of a video card.
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Summary: Most Worthwhile Upper Tier Gaming Card
Review: There's only one other card currently on the market that can beat this card in speed and graphics quality, and it happens to be made by ATi as well. Given that this card was released months before nVidia's top of the line (GeForce FX), it is simply stunning to know that when all high-end features are active, this card simply outpaces the GeForce FX, which costs more! Face it, if you're spending [dollar amount] for a video card, you bought it for the ability to enable FSAA and Anisotropic filtering and not for 500 fps in Quake 3. There are only two downfalls to this card. One being that it does require a direct connection to your power supply, as the AGP slot does not provide enough power for it, but this is no biggie considering the top 3 (Radeon 9800, 9700, GeForce FX) all have a power plug. The other being that it doesn't come with it's own memory cooling, no big problem really. All crashes that people have been stating have mostly been the fault of the game and not the card or the drivers. So that's a non-issue.
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