ATI RADEON 9800 Pro 128 MB

Pros: Fast frame rate. 128MB DDR. Compares well with NVIDIA 5900FX.

Cons: Somewhat expensive but you get what you pay for.

The Bottom Line: I'm confident that I got a great card for the money, and I don?t think I?ll be sweating over whether I should have got the NVIDIA 5900FX or not.

Review: 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 than the...

Pros: Fast, fast, fast, and with the latest price drop, cheap!

Cons: Power hungry - Requires a good motherboard and power supply.

The Bottom Line: Hands down the best deal you'll get on a video card at the time of writing. Get one.

Review: 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...

Pros: Fast, driver team very proactive, quiet

Cons: Expensive, but hey - it's the best!

The Bottom Line: The fast 9800 pro will not disappoint. The newest iterations of the catalyst drivers appear to be flawless. The only mark it gets is for the hefty price tag.

Review: 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,...

Pros: Excellent accessories, Fast, Quality Components, Good Drivers (finally!!!), DX9 Compatibility, Easy to Overclock

Cons: Can get very hot, expensive

The Bottom Line: The 9500 Pro or 9600 Pro are adequate for most new games, but if you want silky smooth graphics, get the 9800 Pro!

Review: 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...

Pros: Fast, Quiet, Great Warrenty and RMA

Cons: Poor Linux Support, requires a odd power connector for fan

The Bottom Line: This is by far the best card that I own. A little bit ussupportive in some cases, but still a spectacular card.

Review: 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...

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.

The Bottom Line: One of the cheaper graphics solutions to get top performance and this card was well priced (#170), get it if you can.

Review: 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...

Pros: Is really fast

Cons: Only stable with 8X AGP boards.

The Bottom Line: Wait to see if the card proves to be stable. (My experience may have been indictive of the card,....or just my configuration.)

Review: 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...

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)

The Bottom Line: This is a great high performance video card needed for high end games (ex. Doom 3, Half Life 2). Can get hot; purchase a quality GPU cooling system.

Review: 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...

Pros: Sizzling performance, great image quality, still competetive.

Cons: Sizzling your computer, still a bit pricy.

The Bottom Line: It's the best super high-end card out there, and the price is good compared to the competition.

Review: 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: Speed, image quality. Extra features added.

Cons: Expensive.

Review: 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...