ATI RADEON SDR PCI 32MB .

ATI Radeon 32MB SDR

December 27, 2000

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• Reviewed by: ZeeJerman

  Strengths: Pretty good picture quality on a lot of games, applications as well.

  Weaknesses: Verryyyy low FPS in a lot of games, run Tribes 2 with many options turned down to 3/4 of the bar

  Overall: Unlike Goombah1, I was stupid enough to buy in 2000, I shelled out $130+ , I should have waited a year or two, better Radeon cards came out, like the Radeon 7000 pci, which looks very pleasing. 3D prophet Hercules 9000 pci is the best pci card out right now, but its only available in the UK, which is a major let-down since I live in the Good Ol' US of A.

• Reviewed by: Goombah1

  Strengths: It gives nice crisp graphics, web pages are clear, and game play is average , for a pci based card.

  Weaknesses: It seems to fall of on the frame rates , usually at the worst times. But gives a nice picture. Frame Rates were almost the same on my "old" ATI Xpert 98 32mb agp card.

  Overall: I was hoping to see a difference, and I did. It emptied my wallet 50 bucks, which wasnt too bad, but didnt give the improvements I had hoped for. Seems like I should have spent another 100 and gotten a DDR Pine , or DDR ATI Radeon. Pure and simple, you get what you "pay" for. At least it does work. As of this statement I havent tried the TV out feature. Been hard enough trying to run CFS1 on my 17" monitor, @100 htz refresh, so the tv out would slow it down more. PC World's review, said some nice "test" results... but it didnt give me those #'s in CFS1. Usually down around 20-40 fps. and at times up over 100 fps... screwy frames !! but nice imaging.