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AOpen PA 3000

AOpen PA 3000
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Great Video - Great Price

Written: Feb 05 '00

Product Rating: Product Rating: 4.0
Pros: Good price, easy installation

Cons: no software bundled in retail box
engrdav's Full Review: AOpen PA 3000
I purchased the AOpen PA3000 in January 2000 when I upgraded my machine. The card has 16 meg of memory. I bought this card for the memory, price (about $70), and chipset. I'm running an AMD K6-2 450 and the NVidia/TNT2 Vanta chipset was highly regarded for my system configuration.

Installation was very easy with the included cd-rom. The cd rom included Directx 6.1, which is slightly out of date. A new version of Directx is available at the Microsoft site.

I had lots of problems with my previous video card but have yet to have any with this one. It cleared up ghosting problems I had and supports a high refresh rate for my 20" monitor with 1074 x 768 resolution.

I do have a problem with Need for Speed 3 (it is not utilizing the Directx drivers), but I think the problem is with the program, not the card.

All in all, this seems to be a very good card for the price.



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