ATI Radeon 9550 (AGP 8x, 256MB)

3.5 stars

"great card for a good price" on December 12, 2004

Pros: Dual monitor support AND video out for multimedia PC uses, fast GPU and 256Mb DDR/SGRAM. Can play full resolution games without giving up shading and other features.

Cons: Limited documentation even on ATI's website - no product manual on their support website even though they mention the card on the product pages. Occasional crashes when playing certain video files, VPU recovers but no reason why this happens is apparent

5.0 stars

"Does have video out, but no video in. (video in cards are cheap as hell anyways, 50$ CDN)" on December 8, 2004

Pros: 256MB Enhanced shading Streaming videos look much better(less pixilated) fast clock 8X AGP

Cons: No video in ◘

4.0 stars

"Great card for the price." on July 6, 2006 by John Porcello

Pros: If on a budget this card delivers a lot of bang for the buck. It runs everything that I've thrown at it so far. I didn't have the money for a better card, but I am very happy with what I've got

Cons: I haven't tested all of this card's capabilities, but the biggest problem that I've come across is that after a time the screen images appear faded and washed out and I have to reboot.

Summary: I know that far better cards are on the market, but would recomend this one to anyone who is on a budget but wants a 256 meg video card.

4.5 stars

"AMAZING CARD!" on May 6, 2006 by BradPois

Pros: Great picture quality. AGP. Runs amazingly on games.

Cons: There are none

Summary: This is a great graphics card. It is also fairly inexpensive. It runs all the new games. It still lags a bit in "high intensity" moments in Call of Duty 2 but thats not a big problem for me. I would recomment this to everyone.