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Summary: Do not waste your money!
Review: Just last September, I went from 64 Mb to this 128 mb 9200 SE card in hopes of playing Doom 3, and in preparation for Half-Life 2. First off, it was horrible playing Doom 3, even after re-authoring the game, and some tweaks I found on gaming sites. I IMMEDIATELY was disgusted having paid $70 (after rebates), and bought a nVidia FX 5700 LE 256 Mb for about $115. I can now play all the high end games I want (albeit at medium settings). So, spend a little more and get a medium price card.
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Summary: Great card..just needs a good owner
Review: Bought this card about 4-5 months ago and I have to say it's an amazing card you just need to know how to gain its full potential. The drivers supplied are to say the least OUT OF DATE! Go directly to http://www.guru3d.com and get the latest ATI omega drivers these are fine tweaked to a higher spec than any made by ATI and also allow you to overclock your card. I overclocked mine to almost 300mhz core and 250mhz mem now I can play Half Life 2 (All settings on high no jumping or stuttering) and Doom 3 on High with no side effects. Now for the money this card is a bargain just dont give up on it at face value. It is a nifty little card that can compete with cards 10x it's price it has all latest features (2004/05). I couldnt recommend this card more. Also omega drivers are compatible for all ATI cards so the graphics are getting faster and smoother every month.
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Summary: Can Handle Doom III
Review: I am a computer geek for sure, and i love high quality graphics.The only problem is that i don't have the money to buy a expensive computer so i had to keep my 3 year old dell. The situation for me was that this computer only has a 200watt power supply, and now-a-days most cards are requiring over 350watts of power. I previously had a geforce4 ti4200(64mb), but that stoped working once our electric in the house was changed. The computer origionally came with a Nvidia TNT 2 graphics card with 32mb of memory. This card looked nice, but its performance was very weak and had very little support for advanced graphics applications. So, i started looking for a new card, and i came upon the ATI radion 9200 with 128mb of ram. i bought the card, and installed it in the computer. Sadly though, i noticed you could ACTUALLY see the pixles changing color.... it was not very accurate with picture quality. Now, this was not my moniter, or computers graphics settings, as i know none of those were changed(i have an extensive knowledge of computers, and know that it was the graphics card doing this). When i played a game (diablo2) it was VERY noticilbe with the "Fog-of-war". I e-mailed ati tech support and they said that this "snow" might just be a defective card. I returned it and got another. The SAME problem occured. Im not sure whether this is common among all ATI products, but to someone who really likes computer graphics, this is a major turn down. The Nvidia graphics cards do not have this problem(from what ive seen and heard), and thus i would recommend you go with a Nvidia made product if possible. Nvidia is very competitivly priced and the graphics are just that much better! As for performance, and seeing how this card being very new, is only "below-average". This is aimed at the very cheap quality market, which is a shame because its a brand new card. I did a benchmark with it (3dMark2001) and the numbers average around 4000.... very disapointing. My geforce4 ti4200 was a year older and averaged around 6500 with the same benchmark. Also, this card does not have multiple moniter support, or any other the other features that some of the new cards have. This is not a problem for me, but some people might need those "special features". As for the softwear, it was flawless, and installed easily. This is the only main turn-on to this card. As of right now, i feel ATI is really producing a Cheap quality product for a relitivly high price. I would recommend you consider a Geforce4 TI model or a geforceFX before this... In conclusion, i was very disapointed. Assesment based on a scale of 1-10(10 is best)
Picture quality: 2 (because of the changing pixles)
Performance : 4 (very low for such a new card)
Price : 1 (i think this card should have been more like 50$US)
Card Features : 3 (basic card)
Software : 10 (worked perfectly) Hope this helps!
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Summary: For such a new card, its still cheap quality.
Review: I am a computer geek for sure, and i love high quality graphics. The only problem is that i don't have the money to buy a expensive computer so i had to keep my 3 year old dell. The situation for me was that this computer only has a 200watt power supply, and now-a-days most cards are requiring over 350watts of power. I previously had a geforce4 ti4200(64mb), but that stoped working once our electric in the house was changed. The computer origionally came with a Nvidia TNT 2 graphics card with 32mb of memory. This card looked nice, but its performance was very weak and had very little support for advanced graphics applications. So, i started looking for a new card, and i came upon the ATI radion 9200 with 128mb of ram. i bought the card, and installed it in the computer. Sadly though, i noticed you could ACTUALLY see the pixles changing color.... it was not very accurate with picture quality. Now, this was not my moniter, or computers graphics settings, as i know none of those were changed(i have an extensive knowledge of computers, and know that it was the graphics card doing this). When i played a game (diablo2) it was VERY noticilbe with the "Fog-of-war". I e-mailed ati tech support and they said that this "snow" might just be a defective card. I returned it and got another. The SAME problem occured. Im not sure whether this is common among all ATI products, but to someone who really likes computer graphics, this is a major turn down. The Nvidia graphics cards do not have this problem(from what ive seen and heard), and thus i would recommend you go with a Nvidia made product if possible. Nvidia is very competitivly priced and the graphics are just that much better! As for performance, and seeing how this card being very new, is only "below-average". This is aimed at the very cheap quality market, which is a shame because its a brand new card. I did a benchmark with it (3dMark2001) and the numbers average around 4000.... very disapointing. My geforce4 ti4200 was a year older and averaged around 6500 with the same benchmark. Also, this card does not have multiple moniter support, or any other the other features that some of the new cards have. This is not a problem for me, but some people might need those "special features". As for the softwear, it was flawless, and installed easily. This is the only main turn-on to this card. As of right now, i feel ATI is really producing a Cheap quality product for a relitivly high price. I would recommend you consider a Geforce4 TI model or a geforceFX before this... In conclusion, i was very disapointed. Assesment based on a scale of 1-10(10 is best)
Picture quality: 2 (because of the changing pixles)
Performance : 4 (very low for such a new card)
Price : 1 (i think this card should have been more like 50$US)
Card Features : 3 (basic card)
Software : 10 (worked perfectly) Hope this helps!
Rating: 
Summary: Great video card for a great price
Review: I bought my Radeon 9200 through newegg.com and it works just fine for what I use it for. I get an average of about 40fps on mostly medium and high quality settings on Half-Life 2, nearly flawless on Battlefield: 1942, and I had an average of 60fps on high quality for Call of Duty. If your in need of a new video card, or just trying to get one so you won't have to use onboard anymore, go with the 9200 and move up when some of the higher end cards prices go down.
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Summary: Best I've had
Review: I just purchased this card 2 weeks ago. It's is the best AGP 8x 128Mb graphics card I've had, and it can handle all the 3D games I have. Since it's manufactured by ATI you don't have to worry about getting a bad product,there's no problem with warranty, and you get ATI Catalyst software. It comes in good on the TV, but like all cards, when it's plugged into a TV, it's going to be hard to read whats on the screen. On the TV, it still comes in really good when playing games. I recommed this for gamers who don't have a lot of money to spend on cards
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Summary: stupid people
Review: i just wanted to say to all the stupid people that say that they r using their old dell that if you look up info for this product it says that it works best with a computer that has a pentium 4 processor.
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Summary: Good Performance - but has Cold Boot Problems
Review: My computer is a three-year-old Dell P3 800 MHz 256 MB. I replaced my GeForce-2 32 MB video card with the ATI Radeon 9200 128 MB card with the hopes that game performance would improve. Sadly, I did not see a marked improvement in game performance. Apparently, performance (i.e., frame rate and available effects) is limited by the computer's P3 800 MHz CPU and 133 MHz memory. It would seem then, that you will NOT see an improvement in your computer with this video card if you are running a sub-1 MHz computer. Even though I did not see an improvement in video performance, my computer experienced none of the video problems that a previous reviewer observed. The display is very crisp and the colors are great. Installation of the new card is very easy. Just make sure that you un-install the drivers of your old video card before you install the new card. This is very, very important - otherwise, you will experience all kinds of problems. Also, it is best to update all of your chip drivers prior to installing the new card. Now here is my biggest problem with this card: Although the card works great once the computer is running, my computer had serious problems cold booting after this card was installed. In other words, if the computer had been turned off for more than a few hours, it would not boot (in one try) when started up. Most of the time, it stops near the beginning of the boot cycle and never energizes the monitor. Sometimes, the monitor will energize, but then booting stops before the Windows desk top is displayed. Sometimes, I had to reset my computer (with the RESET button) six or seven times before it would successfully boot. The problem seems to get worse the longer the computer is turned off. This indicates to me that it might be a capacitor problem (faulty capacitor or bad solder) or maybe my power supply is inadequate. Anyway, once the computer boots (after 15 minutes or more of repeated attempts), the video card works great. I have now pulled the Radeon 9200 card out of my computer and installed the original video card. Since then, I have had no booting problems (indicating the the Radeon 9200 was the sole problem). By the way, I could find no information on this problem at the ATI web site. They obviously know (or SHOULD know) about this problem. If they were responsible folks, they would put a warning on the box. In brief, this seems to be a great video card and a great price; however, if your computer is less than 1 GHz, or if your power supply is less than 300 watts, I would recommend that you live with your current video card until you can afford a new computer.
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Summary: For what it is.
Review: This is a good basic add on card for any P.C. going from 64 mb card to 128 mb is a HUGE inprovement. Firstly, this is a card that will operate well in Windows ME and Xp, only a few can do that ( without a lot of brain pain)!! Some on the high power games run a little slow just tried Halo and in the intro ran a little slow but through mid game ran just fine. Very easy to install and run, excellent software loaded and executed on the first try!!! So for a reasonable price unless your into the super games you can add a good card, if you want the 256mb be prepared to shell out $$$$$$$. ( It runs all of our son's Star Wars very well/ all of AOE without a hitch)
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Summary: great card
Review: this is a great video card. It has a normal video out plug for a monitor, along with an analog out and an s-video out. You can even hook it up to your tv! You can hook it up to your tv as the tv to A: extend your monitor, or B: show the same thing as your monitor. This can be good for people with emulators, so they can see it like they had a tv (get a controler, and its just like you had an SNES!) Also, the graphics on this thing arte awsome! I had some generic 32mb nVidia card that come with my computer, but i got sick of it, so i went out and bought this thing (the 128mb is worth it. Even 64. As long as its above 32mb) It has a long list of options i cant list here, but theyre there. Its fairly easy to hook it up to your tv, too. But text is pretty hard to read. Thats why you all should have an HDTV. HOWEVER if your not into gaming, dont bother with this card. itll have too much for you to care about. Happy gaming!
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