AMD ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 512MB PCI-E Graphics Card (100-437808)

Average customer rating: 4.0

Almost works
Pretty Good
Strongest in the $100 Range
Good graphics, Good Price
Great video, noisy fan

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AMD ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 512MB PCI-E Graphics Card (100-437808)

Manufacturer: ATI Technologies
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000IXZ3QU

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Product Description

The Radeon X1650 Pro series delivers stunning 3D graphics, excellent performance for games, high-definition videos, and visual creativity. The X1650 Pro is capable of displaying a billion colors more than competing graphics processors, boasts one of the highest video performance scores in the industry and can bring today's top games to life with outstanding shader performance and simultaneous high dynamic range lighting and full screen anti-aliasing. Experience cutting edge, 3D graphics with full screen anti-aliasing, high dynamic range lighting, and stunning shader performance. Listen to your game rather than your PC's fans with the X1650's improved cool-running technology. The Radeon X1650 delivers whisper quiet operation and cool performance while running graphically intense games and applications. Ultra-Threaded Shader Engine Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware Full speed 128-bit floating point processing for all shader operations Up to 128 simultaneous pixel threads Up to 128-tap texture filtering Accelerated MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 decoding and transcoding Fast, glitch-free mode switching Lossless Color Compression (up to 6 - 1) at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions DVI 1.0 compliant, HDMI interoperable and HDCP ready Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400 MHz DACs 3 - 2 pulldown (frame rate conversion) 16-bit per channel floating point HDR and 10-bit per channel DVI output YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays VGA mode support on all outputs Avivo Video and Display Platform Flexible display support High performance programmable video processor DXVA support Render to vertex buffer support Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL 2.0 64-bit floating point HDR rendering supported throughout the pipeline Temporal Anti-Aliasing mode Programma

Customer Reviews:

Almost works.......2007-05-07

I had a hard time installing the drivers. I'm using Win XP with a dual-core Athlon system. I finally "tricked" the system into installing the driver, using a work-around I found on the company web site. The card works beautifully in games and other rendering.

Unfortunately, it also has serious problems. Any video in Quicktime is jerky. I have to reboot to get a movie to play smoothly, and then it's still a little problematic. I didn't have this problem with my previous, slower card with less memory.

Also, there is something wrong with the driver's digital rights management, and Media Player refuses to play any DVDs with it.

I think if the drivers had installed correctly, maybe I wouldn't be having problems.

Pretty Good.......2007-04-26

My former system which is 3 years old have a system rating index of 2.1 with VISTA that I installed. That have gone up with the ATI video card to 4.3. thats the lowest I have on the scale and that is from the 3.2 gighertz HT. The Aero index is now at its highest possible at 5.9 and the gaming is now at 4.8 (up from 3.0). For the price my system has greatly increased in performance. Flight Simultor X is better (not terrific), Doom 3 is now running like a champ as well as other 3D games such as Need For SPeed underground 2. I have my plama connected for extended display, meaning two monitors can be used at the same time.

Strongest in the $100 Range.......2007-04-07

While I still have to receive my 2nd card from Amazon to complete the Crossfire, I have to admit that this card is pretty impressive.

This is indeed the strongest and unbeatable card available in $100+ range here on Amazon, as well as Tigerdirect. It can only be beaten by the Sapphire Radeon 1950x Pro, which is only $189 and available on Newegg.

Installs like a charm: card is not too long, not too thick and not too heavy but it does require quiet some power in order to run in all of it's glory.

It is a little bit loud but if you are not the kind of person who sleeps in the same room while downloading things at night then the loudness will not be a problem.

Games like HL2, BF2 and Call of Duty run very impressively. Doom 3 and even 2003's Graphic-Hungry Jurassic Park Operation Genesis run on high settings without a problem.

I purchased this card not for gaming but mostly for working in 3D applications such as Bryce and Vue, as well as Photoshop and Cinema 4D. So far one of these cards is doing amazing job. When I receive my 2nd one the power will be even greater.

If you are tight on budget and want a great, stable gaming performance then this card is for you.

ATI Radeon x1650 Pro... You can't go wrong with that.

Good graphics, Good Price.......2007-04-01

It's really a incredible graphic card. And the best is the price, you don't need to expend too much to have it. I'm very happy.

Great video, noisy fan.......2007-03-05

I love the performance of this card, but the stock fan was way too noisy for me. I replaced it with a Zalman cooler that not only keeps it quieter but cooler as well.

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