ATI RADEON 8500, (64 MB) AGP Video Card

Pros: Image quality and performance are tops. Supports dual monitors and DirectX 8.1
Cons: Drivers are solid but could be updated more frequently

Setup
You are guided step wise through both hardware and software installation. The manual is to the point and well written.

How easy is it to update drivers?
Driver installation is a snap. When you want to install...

Pros: Speed, Clarity, TV out, eye-popping video with smooth transition!
Cons: NONE

The Radeon 8500 is by far the best graphics card avalible! I just recieved a new computer as a gift and was concerned with the included hardware. When i saw RADEON 8500, I was curious. i had never heard of this card before. Immediatly I installed my...

Pros: Great price. Easy To install. Superb Performance
Cons: Not the best drivers

For about $250 canadian you can pick up one of these brilliant cards. These cards are easily compared to the geforce 3 ti 500 cards which are about $400 canadian and in some benchmarks the radeon 8500 beats it. I bought one of these cards a couple months...

Pros: Fast 3D, Killer 2D, Awesome DVD
Cons: Don't use included drivers

I decided on this purchase due to my dissatisfaction with the DVD performance of my Ge Force 2 Pro (64 MB DDR). It was like my monitor needed cleaning. What a difference! Everything very clear and bright. The 3D was also better and with the new...

Pros: The Card is fast and stable and cost less than some of the competitors .
Cons: If you use 3dmark2001 textures would sometimes drop away .

Technologically, Radeon 8500 is similar to the GeForce3 in that its a fill-fledged GPU , with high-end vertex and pixel shaders capable of making the games of tomorrow look nearly as good as fil-guality CG . In fact on paper the 8500 is more powerful...

Pros: best picture, good connections, stable, good drivers
Cons: mediocre game performance

The Radeon 8500 is now hardly the new kid on the block. It wasn't even that new when I got it a lit ...

Pros: Great value, support for DirectX 8.0 and higher
Cons: Ati always lags with drivers

As I started building a killer pc system from scratch (Back last November), I needed a high end video card. Hearing that ATI was coming out with the Radeon 8500 that was supposed to blow away the GeForce3, I waited patiently. I overnighted that baby...

Pros: Dual Head, Video Out, DVI connector, Great Performance
Cons: No composite Video Out, Drivers could be better, Poor Technical Support,

As a first time ATI buyer I wasn't sure what to expect. In the past I had heard about people having problems with drivers. In the more recent future there had been rumors that ATI had better drivers and technical support, which was a factor in my...

Pros: Best graphics card I've ever seen, Cost is not as high as other leading competitors.
Cons: ???False benchmarks??? Not sure if I believe the hype. BAD Drivers. Buggy drivers.

Awesome is defined as something that will leave you in awe and wonder. This card is Awesome.

A little background on me
I just started building computers in November of last year. Since then; I've built an AMD K6-2 500 with...

Pros: Price, Benchmarks
Cons: Drivers

Introduction:
The ATI Radeon cards seem to be the best video cards on the market, and they are, from a hardware point of view. With the highest available chip clock on the market (275MHz) the fastest memory at 550MHz.

Installation:
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Pros: works great
Cons: if it works at all

i purchased this card new in june and it worked perfectly. but then august rolled around and for some reason the screen decided that it was going to turn all plaid colors. after determining that it was the video card that was defective i contacted their...