Do the guys from ATI know which planet they live on
Written: May 02 '03
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Pros: decent 3D
Cons: dual display support is useless.
VERY unstable drivers.
No Linux support.
The Bottom Line: My advice is: unless you are a single display user do not choose this card. 3D is OK, but again... beware with these drivers.
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| daryl74's Full Review: ATI RADEON 9000 PRO, (128 MB) AGP Video Card |
The card is no doubt powerful and well designed as far as hardware goes. Except for the fan which is noisy and breaks down in a matter of 1-2 months.
When it comes to drivers and software support it seems that ATI are perfectly unaware of the competition. Dual display does not work (not even simple things like mirroring the displays for example, not to speak of features as the Matrox-es DVDmax). If you have 2 displays you can forget about watching DVD-s. Trying to play a DVD (with PowerDVD 4XP) causes both my displays to turn off in one in 4 cases.
In one of 3 cases changing the resolution and/or number of colors brings windows XP to an unusable state.
My feeling is that they spent too much time designing transparent menus etc. and too little implementing real important features.
And finally, considering that ATI has been more then sloppy writing the software, no one can convince me that this is a good card.
It works great in MS Office!
Recommended:
No
Amount Paid (US$): 109
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