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(More customer reviews)If you want to keep an older AGP-based PC going for a little while longer, this is a good card to get. Best balance of speed (with 3ghz P4: 13493 on 3dMark03 and 3837 on 3dMark06 ... you may need the "Futuremark SystemInfo Hotfix Oct07" to get these to run, however) & power usage (the main chip hardly gets warm & fan is quiet) + card size (compared to an ATI HD3850 AGP).
As long as you have a newer, more powerful ATX power supply (I have a 600-watt with the extra 6-pin connector... you may have to use the provided power adapter) this card will work fine.
The display quality on an old analog VGA CRT with provided adapter looks fantastic. Crisp & sharp.
Box also includes a DVI to HDMI adapter, a component video adapter, and S-video + composite video adapter.
The drivers on the provided CD work OK, however it's a good idea to go to Sapphire's website to download the latest driver & AGP patch (you'll need Adobe Flash to make their site work properly). ATI Catalyst requires Microsoft's .NET bloat-ware, but what can you do.... software publishers have to keep that upgrade gravy train going.
The card obviously has GPU power to spare (100's of GFLOPs), but seems crippled by the slower DDR2 128-bit RAM. And currently, I can't figure out how to offload video processing to the GPU using ATI's AVIVO (i.e. transcoding)
As long as the card wasn't manufactured on the cheap (hard to tell these days), I'd say based on the low amount of heat dissipation, it should last a while and keep you fairly up to date.
I'm still using Windows XP, so I can't tell you how this card will work with newer Microsoft operating systems.
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