ATI RADEON 7000

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Slow

f you've read my Geforce 5200 review you will know before I upgraded I had a Radeon 7000. I was looking for a new graphics card back in 1999 so went into my local computer shop and asked what cards they had. They had around three graphics card. The Radeon was £40 and the next card up was £120 and the 3rd £180. Having very little money I purchased the Radeon 7000. I walked out of the shop and looked at the back of the boxed. It said ti supported ...
...on Direct x 9 so I quickly ran back into the shop and asked him if it would support 9. He said yes it would so I decided to take it home and try it out. The Radeon 7000 has 32mb ram. This was about what I needed at the time. I removed my computer case and removed the old card and replaced it with the Radeon. On start-up I was asked to install the drivers for which I had a CD-Rom. It was very easy to install and only needed a quick restart. I was ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to install, Good price, Great image quality
Disadvantages: Much cheaper in USA

...warned! I had decided to upgrade my old graphics card from an ATI Radeon 7000 to the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro with 128 MB DDR SDRAM. I wasn't having many problems with my old graphics card but I wanted to expand the 3D capabilities of my gaming and edit graphics/photos. Seeing as I have a reasonably fast computer (3.2 Gig Hz Pentium 4) with 1 Gig of RAM, I realized that the card, with only 32 MB of DDR SDRAM was the only thing I would need to optimise. I'm not going to bore you too much like most reviews on graphics cards which tend to focus on frames per second, refresh rates etc. The type of mumbo jumbo info, while really important to die hard gamers, is useless to the majority of us. I am going to try and focus on image quality which is more important to you graphics designers and photographers out there. Installation was real easy I... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Good for laptop as powerful as a desktop
Disadvantages: Heavy, Low battery life

...Basic Specs: System Type Notebook Built-in Devices Stereo speakers Width 34.3 cm Depth 28.2 cm Height 4.9 cm Weight 3.5 kg Localisation English / United Kingdom Processor Processor Intel Celeron D 335 2.8 GHz Data Bus Speed 533 MHz Chipset Type ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7000 IGP Cache Memory Type L2 Cache Installed Size 256 KB RAM Installed Size 256 MB / 1280 MB (max) Technology DDR SDRAM Storage Storage Controller IDE Hard Drive 60 GB Optical Storage Type DVD-RW Read Speed 24x (CD) / 8x (DVD) Write Speed 16x (CD) / 2x (DVD) CD / DVD Rewrite Speed 10x (CD) / 1x (DVD) Display Display Type 15" TFT active matrix Max Resolution 1024 x 768 / 24-bit (16.7 million colours) Video Graphics Processor / Vendor ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7000 IGP Video Memory Shared Video Memory (UMA) Max Resolution... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average not helpful

Advantages: Fantastic budget card.
Disadvantages: Limited overclocking facilities. Fails to run the latest titles.

...Last December, I was assigned the task of building a low -cost PC for a relative. With only a maximum of 35 pounds to spend on a video card my choice was limited. I finally opted for Sapphire's version of the Ati Radeon 7000 model. It cost about 28 pounds at the time, and is possibly the finest budget card I've come across. One of its main advantages is its stability, I used a tool called Riva Tuner to overclock it somewhat, the heatsink handled it fine! Sadly though, the overclocking didn't produce any marked improvement, the only benefit being a slight increase of frame rate on Counter-Strike and Medal of Honour: Allied Assualt. This aside, the card is fantastic for the price. It runs popular games such as Counterstrike (Non-source of course) aswell as any game predating the year 2002. However, it doesn't run more recent... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful