ATI RADEON 9500 PRO Graphics Accelerator

At first I blamed this card for...

Strengths: Good Graphics, easy installation.

Weakness: None, maybe later on you want something more powerful, but it's human nature.

At first I blamed this card for not having a picture on my screen but it was something else, now I love this card but since my Asus P4PE mobo supports only 4x I can't get the whole enchilada, thinking of upgrading drivers, but then buying another card, I seen benchmarks where this card beats the 9600 Pro version hands down plus the 4200 GeForce, I only recommend this card for people that want a...
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At first I blamed this card for not having a picture on my screen but it was something else, now I love this card but since my Asus P4PE mobo supports only 4x I can't get the whole enchilada, thinking of upgrading drivers, but then buying another card, I seen benchmarks where this card beats the 9600 Pro version hands down plus the 4200 GeForce,
I only recommend this card for people that want a budget card with a lot of bang, for more bang get the Radeon 9700 Pro or 9800 Pro or the mother of all cards(for a while) the Nvidia 5900 FX Ultra, take in mind these cards are very expensive.

By sparrow - Jun 15, 2003

Kick a$$ card and it's a great...

Strengths: Runs games in max settings and still loads fast, cheaper than Geforce TI cards and not much difference between this and TI 4600

Weakness: Having to connect the card to the power supply in order for it to get the power it needs ( It's that strong folks! )

Kick a$$ card and it's a great price for what it can do. Games can be put on max settings on resolution and quality, and they still load fast, and I mean FAST!

By MetaBolic - Jan 2, 2003

awesome card, best card on the...

Strengths: Direct X 9 support, beats the cr** out of the GeForce 4 Ti4200, runs all games smoothly at 1280 by 1024 resolution with max settings, stable drivers, awesome price for the performance

Weakness: none that i could find (no OC options but the stock settings are perfectly fine with me)

awesome card, best card on the market for performance per dollar and it beats its competitor, the Ti 4200, by at least 10-40% in all the benchmarks i ran on it, comes with a better bundle of cables and converters which werent included with the MX 440 or Ti4200 i bought. a must buy for a gamer unless you're a OC.

By two_one - Dec 27, 2002

unreal tournament looks great and...

Strengths: 5 times my previous 3dmark 2001 score! games look great!

Weakness: no overclocking availabilities yet. need the latest agp driver and no game bundle

unreal tournament looks great and it's smooth. no more "jaggies". Upgraded from my old radeon le and well worth it. Gotta play all of my old games over again.

By lime - Dec 17, 2002

I bought this card, replacing my...

Strengths: All of its included features, price, and performance- "most bang for the bucks now" as others have said.

Weakness: Cannot be overclocked till bios is re-flashed and then warranty is void, otherwize I have found none and mine is in a heavily loaded high performance system with a 550w power supply, so I would know!

I bought this card, replacing my Visiontek GeForce 3 Ti 200, primarily to resolve boot-up issues on my Gigabyte GA-7VAXP motherbord (AMD 1800+XP processor), and some problems with certain programs, which it solved. You have to search a bit on the web but you can find a bios installer and new bios hack which will allow overclocking this card if you are brave, but remember you will forfeit your...
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I bought this card, replacing my Visiontek GeForce 3 Ti 200, primarily to resolve boot-up issues on my Gigabyte GA-7VAXP motherbord (AMD 1800+XP processor), and some problems with certain programs, which it solved.
You have to search a bit on the web but you can find a bios installer and new bios hack which will allow overclocking this card if you are brave, but remember you will forfeit your warranty...
I am very pleased with this card as I noticed programs that previously would not run properly did so even though I was only running 256mb of Ram at installation.
It has proved to perform, in oem state, just as I expected it would, and for the price what more could you want. It really does kick the Nvidia Geforce 4 cards which were great, but which have now been made obsolete.
PS: I inxtalled the GeForce 3 in my 800Mhz. Pentium 3 system (768Mb. ram, Promise 133 DMA card, Maxtor 133 drives)where it now lives happily, replacing the TNT II PRO 64, and giving this older syetem quite a welcome boost!
***update 6/25***
This card really kicks now with the Infineon 3.0 bios and overclock program installed along with 1Mb. ultra premium 434 DDR and a new AMD 3000XP.

By AlexanderAkulick - Feb 16, 2003