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ATI Technologies Radeon 7500 Graphics Card

ATI Technologies Radeon 7500 Graphics Card

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great card
Review: This card rocks. easy installation.I was shopping for a vid card purchased a gforce 420 I had all kinds of problems ie:dvd player didnt work after installation,online games was sluggish etc went back to store exchanged for ATI 75OO I have not had a problem yet with gaming or dvd playback

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best card money can buy!
Review: This is midcore gammer gard, it is very good card come with DDR memory and DirectX8 support.
Games play even better than expected, good!
The price is great, and I think it is worth every penny!
No complains with stability or other problems.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Difficult Installation .... but it is all worth it !!
Review: Whatever you have read in the previous reviews is right. Installing this card is a bit tricky, but once you get it all right, it is defintely worth the effort and the money you put into this card. It took me 6 hours to get this card and the software working. I have included some very important points I noted while installing is card. Please take note of them so that you can install the card in a much shorter time.

(BTW, I have a custom build PIII 800MHz PC with 320 MB memory, Win 2K and a good old AGP 2X/4X ATI Rage Mobility card previously installed.)

1. First of all, NEVER forget to remove the previous display drivers !! Use the uninstall program that came bundled with the software for the previous display driver (EASIEST method). In my case, I had no uninstall software to remove the previous display driver. So, I used regedit to clear the registry entries for that driver and used the safe mode to remove the DLL files corresponding to that driver (NOT recommended except for a last ditch effort).

Remove the previous card (hardware) and install this card ONLY AFTER thoroughly removing the display drivers of the previous card.

2. When you reboot the system (in NORMAL mode) after hardware installation, Windows will display a "New Hardware Found" message. Allow it to install the Windows standard VGA driver (it will only display the 640 x 480 mode). Check the display properties to make sure it displays something like "standard VGA" or something related. (If it still shows the name of the previous display driver, go back and try removing the previous driver, until you get Windows to use the standard VGA driver).

3. If you have the software for the motherboard drivers, re-install the one for the AGP. (one of the recommendations on the ATI website, in case you get a blank or garbled screen after you install the new drivers).

4. In my case, the software that came on the CD never worked !! I ended up getting either a garbled screen, or the computer hangs at a blank screen. So, I went to the ATI website, downloaded the latest drivers, and viola !! everything worked perfect !! (Note: for some people, the CD-version of the display driver seem to work fine. Try the internet version if you have trouble getting the CD-version to work).

Everything else from here is a no-brainer. I installed all the accompanying software from the CDs (of course, all software EXCEPT for the CD-version of the display driver: choose custom setup during installation). I connected the cable TV co-ax to the CATV input and I got TV on my computer ! Better yet, you can preview all the channels (in the form of thumbnails) and click on one of them to watch it (how cool can this be !).

The remote worked just fine, though I still keep thinking that it an unnessary excess. Make sure that the USB receiver for the remote is taped to a wall or some open space to get better reception, instead of just letting it lay beside the metal enclosure of your computer.

I played the trial version of Age of Mythology, and I was impressed by the 3D acceleration features of this card. I am yet to try other games though.

Overall, this card is awesome !! If you somehow get through the process of installing it and getting it to work, you'll be definetely in for a surprise.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Better than MX series from Nivida
Review: Yes 7500 is really good card mid range class video card.
Unlike MX series from Nivida that are using SDR memory, which is 2 times slower memory from DDR.
Rodeon 7500 come with 64 MB DDR memory support directx8.
I have played 8 games and did not let me down even once, does Catalist rings the bells?? Yes indeed ATI is making better drivers from Nivida. Check out lates reiviews of ATI drivers.

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If I had a choice I would buy this card again.
((((Cheers)))))


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