 Holy Crap! |
| Review Date: October 14, 2009 |
| Reviewer: ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, New Hampshire |
I can run Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising at the full settings!!!! With my old dual Nvidia 7600gt's I could barely run it on 800X600.
It is a great card so far!
FYI - it is a HUGE card. It takes up a lot of space. Thing is probably about 10 inches long.
Also, it wants dual 6 pin plugs straight from your power supply to run. If you don't have those I recommend updating your power supply. |
Great graphics card, great price
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| Review Date: January 19, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Rick S. Jacobsen, Texas |
| Wanted the most current, middle of the road graphics card at a good price. Amazon delivered. Installation was a breeze and the graphics card came right up. I am using 2 monitors, a 22 and a 24 inch. Everything looks great and is working superbly. I am using this in my recently built PC, which has an Intel 920 I7, Gigabyte MB, 6Gb RAM, Patriot Warp SSD, Windows 7 64 bit, and Office 2007. |
Great card!
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| Review Date: July 21, 2010 |
| Reviewer: A. Ashour, Saudi Arabia |
I got this card in October 2009 to replace an ATI 3870 card that was in the system i was upgrading. To date it has run flawlessly. I Live in a hot and dusty location in the Middle East and it never gets too hot and i frequently check the fan/heat sink for dust buildup and find it minimal.
I run this card to a 32" HD LCD TV via a HDMI converter and comes out crystal clear, the card/drivers automatically detected my TV type and resolution and adapted to it. I put a lot of hours on this card as i am a heavy gamer and play a wide variety of games, non of which had a problem on high details. Keep in mind i keep all drivers, including the GPU updated all the time.
I run this card on a motherboard & CPU i ordered with it also from Amazon.com, an AMD Phenom II X4 940 CPU and Asus M4A78 Plus motherboard. They all work well and i highly recommend them! |
Great Card!
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| Review Date: December 1, 2009 |
| Reviewer: A. Man, |
| I upgraded my ATI Radeon X1900XT in my Mac Pro to this card and it made a huge difference in all my applications! (3D, photo, video, gaming, even my virtual machines) |
Price+Power [Good] - Heat+Sound [Bad]
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| Review Date: December 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Sean T. Phillips, Southgate, Michigan |
I replaced my old GeForce 7600 GT with this card in order to keep up with the times. I've never bought a Radeon card before, and I remembered why almost immediately after I installed it. The card ran ridiculously hot with just stock cooling. I understand I only had 1 top case fan - intake and 1 side case fan - exhaust (then there is also the CPU fan/GPU fan). The card was at 70°C IDLE. Yes it was very hot. I ran Crysis on Max settings for about 10 minutes until artifacts kicked in and everything froze. The card was at 99°C when it restarted.
I moved the fan up a couple PCI-E slots and rigged a new side fan right next to the card [intake] because there's a nice opening in the bottom of my case that would allow airflow. After putting this on and manually setting the fan speed [Using CCC] to 100% - I can run Crysis [Max] at about 70°C - 80°C 100% Load, I get around 30-40FPS. The addition of a new 120mm fan along side the 100% GPU fan is very loud. I can bare the loud noises but I know there's people out there who can't.
Mind you I don't blame Radeon for this I blame myself for having less-than-sufficient cooling in my computer. Just make sure you have this under control.
PROS:
*Very powerful [Able to run anything I threw at it on Max - Crysis, NFS:Shift,WoW]
*Inexpensive!
*Nice overclocking features using CCC - I haven't overclocked I just know it would be very easy if I wanted to.
CONS:
*Runs hot [Just make sure you have good cooling/air-flow and you will be fine]
*Fan speed does not reach 100% on automatic when you get ~100°C, which is ridiculous, therefore you have to keep setting it yourself if you need it.
My Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz
GPU: G.SKILL 3GB (3 x 1GB) (PC3 10666) Triple Channel
CASE: APEVIA X-CRUISER-BK Black Steel ATX Mid
HDD: Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 10000 RPM
MOBO: Foxconn Renaissance |
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