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Summary: Great Value Card!!!
Review: Great card, the best value card on the market, yet you get great performance and easy overclocking.
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Summary: I guess I got a lemon 9600 XT
Review: I bought this video card a number of months ago and have had nothing but trouble. I've tried everything to get it to work for my games (even less complicated RTS games) but nothing has helped. I have tried it on two different computers, both P4 and AMD Athlon XP systems. I added a nice Enermax 420 watt power supply. Then I added another case fan (a total of 2) because Tech support thought it was a heat problem. Nothing has helped. Tech support for both Transend (who made the card) and ATI has been helpful but now I must send it back. The problem with this is that Transcend said it could take weeks to get a replacement so I have to do without a video card in my computer for that long! Too bad because now I have a bad taste in my mouth for ATI cards. I haven't had a problem with Nvidia cards.
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Summary: Great deal for gamers on a budget
Review: I didn't really have a chance to shop around and had to choose between this, a X800, or a nVidia 6800GT, that was it. Given my income and rig (a P4 2.4) i didn't think bleeding edge was what the doctor ordered, so I said what the hell and ditched the old GF ti4600.
Well, ho-lee crap, what's that about an average 67fps in Half-Life 2 with all detail settings turned up, 4XAA, 8XAF @ 1024x768? MORE than happy with those numbers for the price. How about Doom3 at 800x600 detail medium-high at steady above 60fps? Not too bad for a 2 year old rig.
The Catalyst software suite is very nice, though since nVidia also makes great drivers these days it's kind of a moot point. One thing to note, using ATI's Overdrive utility I have experienced some system hangs, particularly in HL2. Switched to Powerstrip and now I've got it lethally Oc'd on factory cooling and stable as a coffeetable... go figure.
In short, this card will run any of the current gen of games well enough for 99.9% of gamers. With full DX9 compatability, it's even got a shot at next-gen titles. Highly overclockable, well-priced, and reliable as can be. Great buy!
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I had this for about three months now, and all I can say is WOW! Best one I have ever had and its easy to use! I recommend this to all who need a new video card.
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Summary: BOOM, BABAY!!
Review: I have a 1.33GHz AMD DDR Athlon with 512Mb RAM. Slow by many standards. With my stock graphics card, playing online flight sims was a joke - even when I lowered the resolution to the 2nd-to-lowest position. So, I was flying a boxy plane and STILL couldn't get the frame rate to shoot anyone down.
Rather than look into a new computer, I gave this a try. Installation was a little tricky for someone as computer-illiterate as I am, but I did it all by myself (ie., if you know ANYTHING about these cards, then you're a step ahead of me).
Bottom line, I can now place my resolution settings to "High" and get ultra-smooth frame rates. If I bump it up to "Highest" the frame rate is a little slower, but still better than what I had with my stock card and "Low " settings before.
I was told that this card is the best for your buck and has a really nice clock speed compared to many other cards (even 256MB cards).
Get this one while the gettin's good.
rich
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Summary: $200 bucks...for a mediocre card and poor customer support?
Review: I purchased this last December, harboring moderately high hopes of enjoying a decent middle-of-the-road graphics card. It proved to be faster than my previous card, but it fell rather short of its supposed capabilities. Moreover, after approximately three months of running the card with the default factory settings, it died, upon which only software rendering (extremely slow) was possible. I returned the card to ATI under the warranty, whereupon I received a replacement card with accompanying documentation indicating the other was defective.Hmm...well it was brand new in the sealed box when I bought it, but I guess stuff happens. I've since come across a number of people and reviews who've had very similar problems with this card, and thus, the evidence seems to suggest an ATI quality control problem. ATI has seemingly allowed a great number of these cards to hit the market...which is somewhat disturbing, considering the purchase price. Perhaps I think in overly idealistic terms, but I'd expect a company to publicly own up to something like this rather than playing it off like it was a one-in-a-thousand fluke. But then I suppose that addressing each defective card one-by-one probably is more financially prudent for the company. ATI's customer service definitely leaves much to be desired, and it's skimpy at best. They offer one lousy month of free telephone support on their products. Afterwards, it's either pay-per-minute, per-incident, or you're reduced to automated, often useless assistance via ATI's "Customer Care" center on their web site. They offer no individual e-mail support, at least none that is readily apparent, if even available at all. Their site provides forms for submitting preformulated questions and problems to which you will receive an auto-reply to via e-mail -- most of these answers can already be found on their site. Hence, their web-based support is not really support at all, but a mirage for those too stupid or lazy to find the solution on their own. If you have a specific question or problem about your card, don't expect it to get answered if its not already in their FAQs or common technical issues. More importantly than the faulty card, ATI's customer service efforts, or rather, the lack thereof, are enough to make me go to the competition. Give me a company that lives up to the definition of customer service. Good-bye A-T-I.
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Summary: Great Card!
Review: I upgraded from my old ati 7500 after a lot of online research. With my old PC, an Athlon 1800+ and 512MB pc 2100 I managed to score 25 000 on Aquamark, and 6000 on 3dMark 2003!!
Great performer and easy to overclock!
Totally recomend it.
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Summary: My new Radeon
Review: I've been looking for a new card for awhile and have been looking at many sights for it's marks, and it was always close to the top 3 or 4 cards? Well I just installed it and ran the marks on my old Geforce4 4600ti around 19,500, then on the radeon 17,400. What! this is a newer faster card? There must be some problem, run a game and see how it looks, lets try FarCry a great game. Looks like I'm droping frames, UT2004 even worse. Well,this card is going in my son's computer it's better then his Geforce, but if your looking for a card to run Doom3 look for something else.
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Summary: is it the card or is it the game?
Review: okay here goes, playing the lord of the rings the battle for middle-earth on high setting have had lag on the game. I don't know if it the game or my graphic card. I play C&C general with the same engine use by ME(middle earth) and it play perfect, and delta force black hawk down, play perfect. This is the second game that did have lag on a single player mission and when it load the menu, even lag on the loading. So i was wondering do you think it the game fault (Middle-earth) or is it the graphic card? i know for sure that it not my computer because it new! Last but not least the only other game i couldn't play that froze was rise of nation(and all of this is single player mission, and never online) so please help me out. I'm thinking of returning it for a nvidia graphic card, what do you guy/any expert think? I don't really know much about graphic card but my friend did have a problem with his and he return it for a nvidia(i forgot which one, the same price as this, about 200 bucks) and he has it for 1 years now and it work perfect, even play the lords of the ring better than this one, using the same games, so i think it the graphic card fault.
i'm sorry that this isn't a review, more of a question, but if you ask me, go with a nvidia graphic card, you can't go wrong, and now most game including the battle for middle earth has nvidia on the box saying the way it was meant to be play, so i'm regretting buying this card. I read so many review saying it better than nvidia, and now this, and even one of my friend, work with graphic cards, say that a ati card is faster but not as reliable as a nvidia graphic cards. All i can say, is i feel rip-off, the best card, i sure don't think so.
i hope this help
my aim is eckoballers2, and if you got the answer to my above question, please aim me.
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Summary: Corrections
Review: Wow, okay. There's just a little bad information going on here. :) First of all, the 9600XT is hands-down, without-a-doubt the best graphics card you can buy for the money right now. considering that the 9700Pro (what, a year ago now?) whipped the pants off the GF Ti4600, I think the reveiwer below might want to reconsider his installation steps (removed your old drivers? firmware updates? stop using synthetic benchmarks?) you obviously are missing something-- check benchmarks on any reputable online reviewer (*cough* hardocp.com *cough*). Surely you're not suggesting you run FarCry/UT2K4 on a Ti4600 with no problems? *smirk* Really, I can't believe I saw this card with a 3 1/2 rating. It really does deserve better. No, it's not going to beat an X800XT (neither will anything else right now), but then again it doesn't cost $450-$500. Show me a better card in this price range. I guarantee you Nvidia doesn't make one. Maybe someday, but right now ATi owns the top and the middle of the market, and they deserve it.
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