ATI RADEON® 9800 Pro, (128 MB) AGP Video Card

Pros: Easy installation, nice bold warnings telling you what to remember, and extremely fast product.
Cons: Buy this card and you won't be able to stop yourself from buying games.

Due to my status as a complete ATI fanatic, I must not write this review in a serious manner. I apologize in advance if I have offended anyone, but I insist on expressing my true feelings in this completely honest, heart-felt review. READER ...

Pros: Fast frame rate. 128MB DDR. Compares well with NVIDIA 5900FX.
Cons: Somewhat expensive but you get what you pay for.

“Hooray! It’s here!” Finally after 10 days and $204.79, my new Radeon 9800 Pro 128 video card finally arrived. Now all I had to do was install it and explain to my wife why this card was worth two hundred bucks. The first part was easier ...

Pros: excellent card, fast, powerful, with air-cooling hit mid 18,000's
Cons: drivers need to be refined a bit, some games behave oddly

the 9800 is not an overclocked 9700, algorithms are better, if you want a truly good card, with some ...

Pros: Great Rendering, Smooth Graphics, Awesome Benchmarks
Cons: None other than current price.

I purchased this card for use inside a customer’s computer. I paired it up with an Asus A7N8X Deluxe ...

Pros: Fast, Quiet, Great Warrenty and RMA
Cons: Poor Linux Support, requires a odd power connector for fan

I purchased my Radeon 9800 from a somewhat questionable online dealer. I paid for the card as if it were new, but the card wasn't. Nonetheless I used the card and didn't RMA because the performance was astounding. To give you a idea of how powerfull ...

Pros: Way Way Fast!
Cons: Way Way Expensive!

I recently upgraded my video card from a GeForce Ti4200 to this baby. I was getting OK game playing ...

Pros: Fast, fast, fast, and with the latest price drop, cheap!
Cons: Power hungry - Requires a good motherboard and power supply.

Cripes, this review got old. PCI-E is here and going strong, having turned into a better value for the money, performancewise, than AGP is anymore. And they settled on calling it "PCI-E" instead of "PCI-X" so as to minimize confusion with the old and ...

Pros: Excellent accessories, Fast, Quality Components, Good Drivers (finally!!!), DX9 Compatibility, Easy to Overclock
Cons: Can get very hot, expensive

I just picked this card up at BestBuy for $299 (includes a $50 rebate) to replace my Radeon 9500 Pro 128MB. I've used the 9800 Pro for the past week and here are my observations. Introduction This is one serious card! Check out all the gaming site ...

Pros: Sizzling performance, great image quality, still competetive.
Cons: Sizzling your computer, still a bit pricy.

I managed to get my grubby little hands on ATI's second most powerful card on the market, the ATI Radeon 9800 PRO. Recently, ATI came out with a $500 Radeon XT card which offers slightly more performance for $200 more than the 9800 PRO, which is a ...

Pros: fastest card on the market new drivers are good
Cons: expensive

this card is the best on the market well unless you buy the 256mb model or the fx5900 256mb model, this card is a nice evolution from the 9700 pro. out performs the fx5900. well worth the cost. your gonna want a high end card if you intend to play doom...

Pros: Screaming fast; best in cost/performance ratio (IMO)
Cons: Runs pretty hot; requires an additional Molex plug for power (a splitter cable is provided)

I’d been hoping to see the price of this card go down in light of ATI's recent announcement of the 9800's successor; the x800. Sure enough, I found a great price at Fry's 1-Day Anniversary Sale on this card. The 9800 Pro 128 is definitely a top of ...

Pros: Amazing performance. Good value compared to Nvidia. Quiet cooling solution. Only uses one slot space.
Cons: Requires Molex plug (adapter supplied). Physically large (long) card can obstruct motherboard devices. Shop around.

I bought this card to replace my Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB, I only bought the 9000 last year however this was at the budget end of the market and I did not expect much for £60. Suffice to say the 900 Pro suffered greatly with later games and does not support ...

Pros: Fast, driver team very proactive, quiet
Cons: Expensive, but hey - it's the best!

I've been building my own PC's for a long time. I typically standardize on the best components money can buy. While speed is important to me, stability is paramount. In the past, ATI has had a lot of issues with driver stability in their products, and tha ...

Pros: DirectX9 compatable ... Bump mapping, pixel shading, etc, etc ... Incredibly smooth graphics
Cons: Power supply issue

I've had my 9800 Pro for about a month and a half now, and I am very pleased with it. The graphics quality is a lot higher than it was with my old Geforce card, and I can run many games with options cranked where my Geforce would crawl. Ever try running ...

Pros: Is really fast
Cons: Only stable with 8X AGP boards.

First let me say I am NOT a gamer. However I do like to have top quality components in my computers. I started building computers about five years ago for myself and many of my friends. I like to know that I am getting good components in my computers. ...

Pros: Good for the its price. Graphics improve. Much faster than older models.
Cons: Over heats. Requires high power source. Clock speed still mid range. FPS drop constantly.

Let me start by giving you my own PC spects. I have 1G of RAM, P4 3.0 basically, the works. Now, the ATI RADEON 9800 PRO, this card is good, but not that good, first of all, it requires a power supply of at least 300 and it over heats a lot, if you wanna ...

Pros: Silky smooth gaming, for only 220 at pricewatch
Cons: could be a little cheaper but hey the best don't come cheap.

Great performance good price if you know where to shop. I had a 9500 pro that died and now my games are running about 50% faster and looking better than ever.

Pros: Solid gaming card
Cons: Price

I bought Crucial Technology's version of the Radeon 9800 Pro video card and I have to say anyone would love one of these as a gift.
The new suite of Radeon cards marks ATI's return to the lead in the video card wars, fought primarily with nVidia. With 128 MB of on-board quad-channel DDR memory, this thing rocks in online gaming. I ended up exceeding 180 frames per second in the original Unreal Tournament - compare that with 30 fps with my original card and 100 with with a 64 MB nVidia.
The card itself is a thing of beauty, with a variable-speed fan and gleaming heat sink. It installed easily and configured itself. I downloaded the latest drivers from ATI after installation and since then have been slaughtering innocents in various online games ever since.

This card needs a fairly beefy PC to function well. It needs so much power that it requires a separate power connection inside the PC case, and the maker recommends a 300-watt power supply. But assuming you have the horsepower, this thing will make a gamer's day, for sure.

Pros: Speed, image quality. Extra features added.
Cons: Expensive.

Fist of all, I am not a gamer. I use the Radeon 9800 Pro for professional video editing and graphics application. I have to say the Radeon Pro is one fast rendering machine, absolutely incredible. It handles nicely any graphic application and improves the rendering time of Windows based video editing. You also get the best of this card if you can connect it to your monitor through DVI connection.

For instance, if you have a good DV editing card and use Adobe Premiere, you may feel very frustrated when you use filters and transitions that are not native to that DV card. The Radeon 9800 Pro fills that gap, rendering at quite fast speeds.

Video reproduction is also outstanding, smoothing angles and artifacts.

Overall, an impresive product.

Pros: Fast Frame after frame need I say more.
Cons: Could be cheaper but your getting the best and it delivers.

Every game I have, I can play with all settings at max. With 8x antistrophic filtering. I can even play GTA 3.

UT2K3 works like a dream compared to my previous geforce2 mx400. Splinter cell runs at 30 fps which is ok for me. The shadows in that game are kinda complex so all cards slow down a lot.

This card is a "Gamer's Dream." If you have this card don't have to worry about the system requirements of the game to much, as long as your close the card will handle the rest.

Guild Wars, runs awesome with this thing. Even the cooling system is advanced.

Pros: Really fast, powerful
Cons: Expensive, power inefficient (just need good power supply, 400+ W)

This product is unbelievable... I definitely do not regret spending the $200 it cost... while it may not be the most efficient card (which most people who have this card are NOT worried about)... requires a decent power supply and generates significant heat... will handle any visual eye candy you desire... I upgraded from a GeForce FX 5200 to this, and tried playing Halo with all max settings... the game looks sooo much better, and absolutely no lag... I tried to make it lag by quickly scanning really large outdoor scenes, etc. and, nothing... works like a charm... if you have the money to invest, I'd say go for it

Pros: Was fast and smooth, very quiet
Cons: Made my whole system very quiet

Trust me. These two pieces of hardware DO NOT get along and it seems that neither company is interested in engineering a fix. After bringing my system to its knees with random lock ups, crashes, crazy artifacting, etc., I have begun the arduous process of getting a refund from Sapphire. Note: I have not overclocked this card, I have kept my system pretty cool with good air flow and average temps on mobo and cpu, I have kept up with uninstalling old drivers and installing new ones, I have tried every fix on every forum I can find, all to no avail. Look into this card very carefully before you buy. Do your research at the vendor's forums and good tech sites.