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ATi Radeon 9800 Pro

Posted by michael on from the purty-pictures dept.

ATi is bringing out their new card, the Radeon 9800 Pro, and all of the hardware review sites which depend on ATi's generosity for pre-release hardware have released their necessarily favorable reviews. Here's a few: Hothardware.com, Hexus.net, HardOCP.com, Anandtech, Tom's Hardware, Extremetech, PCWorld.

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  1. Damnit! by Cyno01 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And i just bought a Radeon 9700...

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  2. What? by black+mariah · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Are you surprised? Vidcard technology is moving faster than game technology at this point. In the 18-24 months it takes a game to be developed you're looking at it go from being bleeding edge, to it being behind everyone else. Eventually someone is going to be burned by this cycle, and it most likely will be the "$400 every six month" video card manufacturers.

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  3. Will ATI ever get past crappy drivers and support? by Friendly · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    Every time I bu ATi I am disappointed. The drivers alway suck. I have an old All-in-Wonder Raedon which is sitting in a box because it will not run under Windows 98 2nd ed or 2000 or Xp. Their tech support refused to aknowledge that the card was faulty, instead every response I got from their tech support was - Read the FAQ. You know what the FAQs all said - turn off every feature on your mother board, throttle the card to minumum MHz and set AGP to 1 X. So I do all that and my system runs like a dog and the card still crashes the system every couple hours. Not again, I do not care about the bells and whisles, if I spend $250 on a video card then I expect it to run out of the box and to get phone tech support that will actually help me. Screw ATI, NVIDA al the way baby.

    Friendly