ATI Radeon 9000 64 MB AGP Graphics Card

List Price: $149.59

Features:

• 64 MB of DDR memory accelerates latest 2-D/3-D games and applications
• Four parallel, highly optimized rendering pipelines deliver fastest gaming performance in its class
• Industry-leading video technology and software support
• Supports DirectX 8.1 and enables more complex and realistic lighting effects
• Compatible with Windows 98, 98SE, Me, 2000, and XP

Customer Reviews:

Bang for buck [Posted on 2003-07-13]
Just added this card to my 3 year old Gateway Performance 800 (Pentium 3) which only had 8MB of onboard shared RAM. First I had to change the bios settings to support AGP graphics, which was simple. Installation of the card itself took only a few minutes. Rebooted and loaded the bundled software from the CD-ROM and that was it. I don't have a smokin gaming system, I bought an Xbox for that so I wouldn't always be playing the upgrade game with my PC. The card installs easy and give great performance for the price.

Radeon 9000 (Very Satisfied) [Posted on 2003-09-02]
I purchased the Radeon 9000 (non-Pro) and installed it in my 400Mhz Dell with Windows 2000 Professional. The card and software installed without a hitch. The manual talks about hooking up the card to a power supply. This is not applicable to the 9000 card (the manual was referring to the 9700 card). You just put the card in the slot and install the software. My machine is an older PC with the version 1 AGP slot and everything worked fine. When I first started looking at AGP cards I didn't realize that there were different versions of AGP slots. The Radeon card has a universal AGP connector, so it will fit any AGP slot. After installing the card I installed the following games to test the card.

Quake2
Unreal Tournament Game of the Year Edition
Janes World War II Fighters
Baldurs Gate
Age Of Empires II: Age of Kings

At first I couldn't run Quake2 in OpenGL mode. I went to the ATI web site...and downloaded the latest drivers. Quake2 then ran fine. All of the other games ran fine. I had one small item. When I was done playing Age of EmpiresII and exited to the desktop, all of the gray buttons and menus were now black(re-booting brought everything back to normal). I don't know if this is a card issue or a game issue. Overall I'm very satisfied that I purchased the card. I hope this information was helpful.

ATI 9000 [Posted on 2003-11-07]
There are 3 versions of the ATI 9000 series- the 9000, 9000 Pro and the 9000 All-In-Wonder (with TV Tuner and output to TV).

The 9000 Pro supports 2 (computer) monitors.

It you wand dual output, read the box carefully. For some boards, the 2nd output means your TV with its limited resultion. For other boards it, can mean a 2nd computer monitor running at typical computer monitor resultion.

ATI only provides free phoine support in the first 30 days after purchase. After that its $ by the minute - if you get a support person that doesn't know much, the call could get long and costly.

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