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Summary: Buyer Beware!
Review: ATI has created a decent product in the past -- good hardware with good software and drivers. However, recently they have gone straight down hill with their drivers. They now have major bugs in the driver/software updates and program downloads. Don't take my word for it, go to their own website for "customer care" and you will see what I mean. Specifically, look at the lack of technical coordination and total mess of DVD playback issues and decoder problems. There exist a whole bunch of problems that are not even covered by their useless FAQ section, such as the windows media player crashing when trying to play a DVD.My advice is to avoid any ATI products until they clean up their act. At the very least I would suggest investigating the known issues on the web -- and you may be surprised to see how many have no fix or even a workaround. ATI's management must have become arrogant enough to no longer care about ATI customers. Bad news.
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Summary: Radeon 9000 (Very Satisfied)
Review: I purchased the Radeon 9000 (non-Pro) and installed it in my 400Mhz Dell with Windows 2000 Professional. The card and software installed without a hitch. The manual talks about hooking up the card to a power supply. This is not applicable to the 9000 card (the manual was referring to the 9700 card). You just put the card in the slot and install the software. My machine is an older PC with the version 1 AGP slot and everything worked fine. When I first started looking at AGP cards I didn't realize that there were different versions of AGP slots. The Radeon card has a universal AGP connector, so it will fit any AGP slot. After installing the card I installed the following games to test the card. Quake2
Unreal Tournament Game of the Year Edition
Janes World War II Fighters
Baldurs Gate
Age Of Empires II: Age of Kings At first I couldn't run Quake2 in OpenGL mode. I went to the ATI web site...and downloaded the latest drivers. Quake2 then ran fine. All of the other games ran fine. I had one small item. When I was done playing Age of EmpiresII and exited to the desktop, all of the gray buttons and menus were now black(re-booting brought everything back to normal). I don't know if this is a card issue or a game issue. Overall I'm very satisfied that I purchased the card. I hope this information was helpful.
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Summary: Bang for buck
Review: Just added this card to my 3 year old Gateway Performance 800 (Pentium 3) which only had 8MB of onboard shared RAM. First I had to change the bios settings to support AGP graphics, which was simple. Installation of the card itself took only a few minutes. Rebooted and loaded the bundled software from the CD-ROM and that was it. I don't have a smokin gaming system, I bought an Xbox for that so I wouldn't always be playing the upgrade game with my PC. The card installs easy and give great performance for the price.
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Summary: ATI 9000
Review: There are 3 versions of the ATI 9000 series- the 9000, 9000 Pro and the 9000 All-In-Wonder (with TV Tuner and output to TV). The 9000 Pro supports 2 (computer) monitors. It you wand dual output, read the box carefully. For some boards, the 2nd output means your TV with its limited resultion. For other boards it, can mean a 2nd computer monitor running at typical computer monitor resultion. ATI only provides free phoine support in the first 30 days after purchase. After that its $ by the minute - if you get a support person that doesn't know much, the call could get long and costly.
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