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ATI RADEON® X800 PRO, (256 MB) AGP Video Card
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- Special Features: MPEG Decoder Card
- Graphic Processor: ATI RADEON X800
- Card Interface: AGP 8x
- Compatibility: PC
- Installed Memory / Technology: 256 MB (DDR3 SDRAM)
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Absolutely fantastic card, hard to beat for AGP
Pros
Beautiful performance, one of the best you can get for AGP.
Cons
Retail price is expensive, and won't run the next-gen games at max.
Recommended it?
Yes
I'll keep this one fairly short, as I'm not going into anything particularly technical (aside from pointing out that this is a 400mhz GPU... higher end ones usually don't break 500 or 550, and a step lower runs below 300mhz typically, so this is extremely competitive)
Here's my experiences, though, with my gaming PC (3ghz processor, 1GB DDR 400 ram, and this video card):
Doom 3: maxed out settings (at 1024*768), it rarely visibly stuttered. And it looked GREAT. Setting the resolution higher lowered performance slightly, but it wasn't really an option for me (small screen), and 1024 is a good gaming resolution anyway.
Half-Life 2: I ran the auto-detect... and it maxed everything out. Also great looking. On the "Lost Coast" bonus, and Episode 1, which requires more power than the normal HL2, it stays high framerate consistently, with the only effective stutter at the very beginning of a large outdoor level. It clears up quickly, and then runs smoothly, even looking out over the entire area. Wonderful.
update:
Half-Life 2: Episodes 1 and 2:
Beautiful. Everything stays maxed out all the time on my system, and framerate is almost always transparently fluid, even in fast-n-furious gunfights.
Here's my experiences, though, with my gaming PC (3ghz processor, 1GB DDR 400 ram, and this video card):
Doom 3: maxed out settings (at 1024*768), it rarely visibly stuttered. And it looked GREAT. Setting the resolution higher lowered performance slightly, but it wasn't really an option for me (small screen), and 1024 is a good gaming resolution anyway.
Half-Life 2: I ran the auto-detect... and it maxed everything out. Also great looking. On the "Lost Coast" bonus, and Episode 1, which requires more power than the normal HL2, it stays high framerate consistently, with the only effective stutter at the very beginning of a large outdoor level. It clears up quickly, and then runs smoothly, even looking out over the entire area. Wonderful.
update:
Half-Life 2: Episodes 1 and 2:
Beautiful. Everything stays maxed out all the time on my system, and framerate is almost always transparently fluid, even in fast-n-furious gunfights.
