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Summary: Freezes if you have a VIA chipset (most AMD computers)
Review: As one reviewer already noted, ATI has problems releasing stable drivers. My system was rock solid before installing this card. Now I'll be lucky to write this review before the system freezes. I was tempted by the card because the VE model has dual display functions, plus it performs faster than the Geforce 2 MX in higher resolutions and 32bit color modes. Unfortunately ATI's readme file says people with VIA chipsets (a good percentage of us) may experience system crashes. I did driver updates and all that jazz, it just made the problems worse. I popped a note to ATI's tech support, and they did get back to me in a few days it was just the standard "reinstall the drivers" message. By the way, I was also less than impressed with the 3D image quality. While it played games like Max Payne nice and quick, even in 32bit mode, the images kept dropping in and out. First, Max's head would disappear, then his head would pop back in but his body would disappear. This same problem kept occurring on benchmark utilities like 3DMark2001. Don't know the techie term for it but you certainly don't see this kind of ugliness on Geforce cards. Lastly, the price of Geforce2 GTS and/or Geforce2 Pro cards, which are about 2x faster than this card, have come down to about this same price level. It doesn't make any sense to buy this card anymore. Oh yeah, one more important point. Uninstalling the software was a nightmare. Even using their own uninstaller, ATI left so much garbage in my computer, control panel, and registry that I still haven't been able to get everything cleaned out. I hope ATI's software engineers can start releasing better drivers soon or else they're sure to be going the way of now defunct 3DFX.
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Summary: Hardware potential is there, drivers may not be.
Review: Given that most people who look for a video card that can run their 3D games, I was surprised that the Radeon would be able to run up to par with the Nvidia's GeForce2 (of course, not beating it all the time). Though, 3D is not everything. The ATI Radeon has superb 2D quality, which can only be topped by Matrox. Their DVD playback/decoder is one of the best in the industry. So for overall performance, the ATI Radeon is a card that can satisfy you in all areas. Though, there is only one nagging thing about this video card. In history, ATI has a lot of trouble releasing good performing drivers. This may be important since we are going to have different OS's every two years or so. Though, the hardware potential is there. If ATI would get their driver development straight, I would have given this card 5 stars. So, if you are looking for speed for your 3D games, buy another 3D card. If you want the whole package, this is the card for you.
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Summary: The best ATI yet
Review: I always mistrusted ATI graphical accelerators, because althought they had very good 2D capabilities, they often lacked the strenght in 3D acceleration. Now imagine that ATI released a card which CAN hold up with todays Geforce and Voodoo Chipsets! ATI Radeon fulfills every single wish that you might want. DVD, Games, 2D- everything is at a remarkable quality. FSAA is excellent, and combined with a strong processor, you can achieve amazingly high framerates even in the most demanding games, like Rune or No one lives forever. Now for the bad part. The DVD software included with the card was showing unexplainable errors which were not client-side, but software-side. But it works perfectly well with other DVD players. This card earned its 4 stars only because of its capacity (32MB) and I highly encourage you to buy a ATI Radeon VIVO (Video in, Video out) with 64MB.
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Summary: Excellent Product from ATI
Review: I am avid computer upgrade geek formerly loyal to S3 and 3DFX. Now that they are both out of business I looked to ATI for my graphics needs. For some reason I hate Nvidia, same reason why I use AMD and hate Intel. This video card just works perfect with my Via KT133A and Athlon 1000Mhz CPU. You just need to install Via's 4-in-1 drivers and DirectX 8. It should work fine afterwards. People shouldn't bash this card without trying to fix the problem. The best feature that this card has that Nvidia GeForce2 lacks is DVD playback. This thing plays DVDs better than any software based solution. It also plays Counter-Strike and other games with great quality and speed. I give this video card a perfect score. But I really need to get a new monitor, that has been screwing things up for me.
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Summary: Excellent Product from ATI
Review: I am avid computer upgrade geek formerly loyal to S3 and 3DFX. Now that they are both out of business I looked to ATI for my graphics needs. For some reason I hate Nvidia, same reason why I use AMD and hate Intel. This video card just works perfect with my Via KT133A and Athlon 1000Mhz CPU. You just need to install Via's 4-in-1 drivers and DirectX 8. It should work fine afterwards. People shouldn't bash this card without trying to fix the problem. The best feature that this card has that Nvidia GeForce2 lacks is DVD playback. This thing plays DVDs better than any software based solution. It also plays Counter-Strike and other games with great quality and speed. I give this video card a perfect score. But I really need to get a new monitor, that has been screwing things up for me.
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Summary: Dont waste your time and money
Review: I bought the ATI AllInWonder Radeon, and was so unhappy with the drivers that I will never buy ATI again. The AllInWonder cannot be used with Windows Media Encoder or RealProducer due to ATI's drivers. It has been a year and they still haven't fixed it. It took ATI months to come out with a good OpenGL driver. Using the ATITv app, going full screen locks up the system. Poor tech support on top of it. The GuidePlus system is REALLY slow at downloading guide data...regardless of your connection speed.
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Summary: Great graphics card
Review: I bought this item on september 2001 and has played me all the games i have. A friend has a 64mb card and yet, my 32mb radeon is still best. It runs all the games you can imagine. The FS2002 runs it perfectly. I am very pleased with this item. Definitely a must buy product.
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Summary: Great graphics card
Review: I bought this item on september 2001 and has played me all the games i have. A friend has a 64mb card and yet, my 32mb radeon is still best. It runs all the games you can imagine. The FS2002 runs it perfectly. I am very pleased with this item. Definitely a must buy product.
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Summary: Nice Work ATI
Review: I enjoy this product so much because i had an 8 meg card before i bought this 32 meg card and there was a huge IMPROVMENT!!! You wont belive it you will be stunned!
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Summary: Probably good for Intel, lousy for AMD with VIA chipsets
Review: I have a 1.4 Ghz Athlon system with a VIA KT133 chipset. After trying numerous drivers for the AGP port, the card, flashing the motherboard, upgrading from Win 98 to Win ME, and so forth, the system still crashes a lot. It's mentioned in the ATI support page that they have problems. Should have looked there before I bought it.
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