Really, I can't believe I saw this card with a 3 1/2 rating. It really does deserve better. No, it's not going to beat an X800XT (neither will anything else right now), but then again it doesn't cost $450-$500. Show me a better card in this price range. I guarantee you Nvidia doesn't make one. Maybe someday, but right now ATi owns the top and the middle of the market, and they deserve it.

$200 bucks...for a mediocre card and poor customer support? (Rating: 2.00)
Review : I purchased this last December, harboring moderately high hopes of enjoying a decent middle-of-the-road graphics card. It proved to be faster than my previous card, but it fell rather short of its supposed capabilities. Moreover, after approximately three months of running the card with the default factory settings, it died, upon which only software rendering (extremely slow) was possible. I returned the card to ATI under the warranty, whereupon I received a replacement card with accompanying documentation indicating the other was defective.

Hmm...well it was brand new in the sealed box when I bought it, but I guess stuff happens. I've since come across a number of people and reviews who've had very similar problems with this card, and thus, the evidence seems to suggest an ATI quality control problem. ATI has seemingly allowed a great number of these cards to hit the market...which is somewhat disturbing, considering the purchase price. Perhaps I think in overly idealistic terms, but I'd expect a company to publicly own up to something like this rather than playing it off like it was a one-in-a-thousand fluke. But then I suppose that addressing each defective card one-by-one probably is more financially prudent for the company.

ATI's customer service definitely leaves much to be desired, and it's skimpy at best. They offer one lousy month of free telephone support on their products. Afterwards, it's either pay-per-minute, per-incident, or you're reduced to automated, often useless assistance via ATI's "Customer Care" center on their web site. They offer no individual e-mail support, at least none that is readily apparent, if even available at all. Their site provides forms for submitting preformulated questions and problems to which you will receive an auto-reply to via e-mail -- most of these answers can already be found on their site. Hence, their web-based support is not really support at all, but a mirage for those too stupid or lazy to find the solution on their own. If you have a specific question or problem about your card, don't expect it to get answered if its not already in their FAQs or common technical issues.

More importantly than the faulty card, ATI's customer service efforts, or rather, the lack thereof, are enough to make me go to the competition. Give me a company that lives up to the definition of customer service.

Good-bye A-T-I.

Great Card! (Rating: 4.00)
Review : I upgraded from my old ati 7500 after a lot of online research. With my old PC, an Athlon 1800+ and 512MB pc 2100 I managed to score 25 000 on Aquamark, and 6000 on 3dMark 2003!!
Great performer and easy to overclock!
Totally recomend it.

My new Radeon (Rating: 3.00)
Review : I've been looking for a new card for awhile and have been looking at many sights for it's marks, and it was always close to the top 3 or 4 cards? Well I just installed it and ran the marks on my old Geforce4 4600ti around 19,500, then on the radeon 17,400. What! this is a newer faster card? There must be some problem, run a game and see how it looks, lets try FarCry a great game. Looks like I'm droping frames, UT2004 even worse. Well,this card is going in my son's computer it's better then his Geforce, but if your looking for a card to run Doom3 look for something else.

Great Value Card!!! (Rating: 5.00)
Review : Great card, the best value card on the market, yet you get great performance and easy overclocking.