ATI RADEON 9600 PRO (ATI-100437002)

• Reviewed by: TigerDoD

  Strengths: Price

  Weaknesses: Day of Defeat will not run properly

  Overall: I bought this card specifically for valVes Day of Defeat aka DoD...and to be honest it just sucks...I was running a a Gforce 4 128mb card and it was flawless...this 9600xt 256mb card since install will not run for more then 20 minutes before it frizzzzes out and ruins my game and I have to restart my PC to fix it...sometimes it starts out as freaky graphics (boxes go techni-color then little blocks fly accross the screen..then the whole screen turns into little blocks and freezes the whole screen...I tried downloading the latest drivers...no such luck...same thing...then it gets real glitchy almost like you have a wall hack...you start seeing through stuff...it just plane sucks...I`m going to put my Gforce back in and go back to playing and toss this junky card in the trash.

• Reviewed by: carvensno

  Strengths: Great video card, Ati is about the best you can get! Easy to overclock rock steady!!!!!!

  Weaknesses: Fans tend to be on the weak side, could be bigger and better.

  Overall: Have been using this card for 9 months now, I have it overclocked pretty good and have no problem with heating issues, very steady video card! The only problem has been the fan started to make noise after about 3 months of use, no biggy tho, just spent 14.00 and got a bigger and better fan to keep it cooler. I dont see the need to complain about the card and the fan issue tho!!!!!!! OH P.S. Unless that is a $ 800-900.00 LCD your using it's not going to support 1600x1200 resolution! you might want to look at the spec's on it before blaming a good product for your mistake!!!!!!

• Reviewed by: forthe5

  Strengths: None

  Weaknesses: Unreliable operation when using DVI port.Cool fan is failing after only 6 months.Won't display 1600x1200 on the VGA port, only the DVI.

  Overall: I've only owned this card for 6 months and the cooling fan just started making a loud annoying noise. That's unacceptable for a $190 card! I'm waiting to find out if ATI will send me a new fan or if they expect me to pay $10 to send it back in for repair, leaving me with no card and costing me more than just buying a new fan. If they won't, I think I'll just unplug the fan, let the card burn up and then never buy ATI products again. The other ongoing problem is that if I just have my flat screen connected with the DVI connector, after win2k boots, my screen is blank. If I hook the DVI **AND** the VGA connectors to my flat screen, it works fine and stays in digital mode--pretty annoying. It also won't properly display 1600x1200 on the VGA port--my other systems work fine at 1600x1200.

• Reviewed by: radeon

  Strengths: reliability

  Weaknesses: none found yet

  Overall: i am a serious gamer and i have put this card through so much abuse its not even funny. i play some really demanding games like battlefield 1942,unreal 03 and 04, and have had no problems. i have it overclocked but its probably not nessesary. it works along-side great with my atlon 2400+ overclocked to 2.2ghz, and 512mb memory. i have used nvidia cards with 128mb but none compare to the radeon.

• Reviewed by: lumbergh

  Strengths: Good card for money

  Weaknesses: none that i can think of

  Overall: havent run into any problems with it at all.O ya all u people that are saying "It wont run any games on my comp" or "my geforce 2 smokes this thing" -- its all ur other hardware also. its not just the card that makes everything not run, its just the card doesn't run well with ur mobo/etc. just lettin u know, and letting everyone else that is thinkin of getting this card to not get it just because some of u say it wont run stuff.