ATI Raedon 32 mb DDR Card

[jpetermann]

Looking for comments from anyone about this board...
The good, the bad, and the ugly!

 

[arod324]

It is awesome. I have the card, and it is a HUGE improvement over my Voodoo 3 2K @166/166. You should look into getting the Radeon DDR LE (only $85 shipped from www.newegg.com). This card, after a few tweaks, will be the same thing as a retail Radeon DDR.

 

[Silhouette90]

There are two versions. One is the regular 32DDR(costs around 150$) and the other one is the LE version(below 90$ and hyper-z is disabled initially).

I own the LE (cheaper one) version and I am really really happy with it. Although I still own a P-II 350, I can manage to run games at 1024x768x32 flawlessly, since the fill-rate is not an issue and my system bottleneck is the CPU.

If you are tight on budget, I strongly recommend this one. First of all, you will get a 32 Meg DDR board at 90$, second of all, you can hack registry such that it will become a regular 32DDR Radeon.

Both 3d and 2d rendering quality is said to be better than geforce/geforce2 series. But if you have lotsa money to spend, I will recommend you either GTS2 or Radeon 64DDR with VIVO (this one has video input and video output as well).

 

[Silhouette90]

arod324: Hey I got my card from the same guys. Btw, my old card is Intel I740. Can you imagine the improvement I got?

pastorjay: Shipping is free there.

 

[Killrose]

I like mine, Its not quite as fast as my Asus6800 DDR, but it does bring out some effects in CT, QIII, Combat FltII that the Asus6800 does'nt show as well. At 1024x768 I don't notice any real difference in 2d.
some people have problems with this card and Win 2000.

 

[jpetermann]

I am sure that this is the LE. I only paid $90 for it. Where do I find the registry hacks to make it into the full thing?

 

[EvaX]

I'm positive it is the Radeon DDR LE if you bought it for $90. Search the forum for "radeon" and you'll find the tweaks ALL OVER.... It's been posted like 101023928391023123 times .