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(More customer reviews)Myriads of reviews on the web will tell you about this card's so-so 3D acceleration, and I must agree ... it's not that impressive when you tried last year's model (X800) and noticed that it can perform faster and smoother. But everybody seems to ignore ATI's claims that this card renders much clearer pictures and text, vibrant colors and even smoother video than its predecessors ... all of these are quite true. I use my PC for work 90% of the time and play the occasional game or watch the occasional DVD. Still, because of image quality, I found this a good investment. I would have preferred one of these super-sharp Matrox cards if I NEVER payed any games, but hey ...
The bad: a) this gets very very hot, even with the large fan in my original ATI (I would not even think about getting some of the copy cards with even less cooling), so I wonder how long it will last me, b) whenever the chip's acceleration is working very hard, I hear screeching noises in my Audigy soundcard.
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ATI Radeon X1600 Pro 512 MB AGPFor outstanding digital entertainment and 3-D graphics, look no further than the Radeon X1600 Pro. The card is designed to transform your PC with astonishing graphics performance and visual quality, creating a lifelike high-definition (HD) viewing experience with 3-D games, DVD movies, and digital photography and video.
Performance, by the Numbers Under the hood you'll find 157 million transistors on a 90nm fabrication process; 12 pixel shader processors; 5 vertex shader processors; 512 MB of 128-bit, 4-channel GDDR3 memory; and an external bridge chip that supports AGP 4x and 8x interfaces. The card also features a ring bus memory controller for 256-bit memory reads, which is optimized for performance at high-display resolutions.
The Radeon X1600 also supports impressive shader performance with Shader Model 3.0--now you can see incredible details never before visible. The X1600 also allows you to experience simultaneous high dynamic range rendering and advanced adaptive anti-aliasing for incredible enhancements to lighting contour and color details. Take the edge off of jagged wires and strands of hair, while experiencing photorealistic lighting.
Home Theater Compatibility ATI's Avivo technology, which is integrated into the X1600, promises a high-definition visual experience, delivering sharper photos, smoother video, true-to-life image representation, and universal display connectivity for driving HD displays. High-definition images come to life with remarkable clarity and color. Plus, Avivo's universal connectivity allows you to create your ideal display setup. The technology also offers accelerated MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 decoding, encoding, and transcoding. In the display support department you get an integrated dual-link DVI connector, plus compliance with HDMI and HDCP connections. There's even a component output for direct connections to HDTV displays.
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