This was my very first graphics card, I had a P4 2.4, 512mb of RAM , 40 GB HDD and a 17' monitor, it served me well for over 5 years. I played Fifa 05,06,07 and 08 at full settings, all NFS'S upto Mostwanted then it started becoming sluggish, it was quiet and all you had to do was to plug it in your AGP and you were good to go.. it was relatively quiet I Later upgraded to a radeon 1550 and only noticed a small improvement in performance. I want to play fifa 12 and the new NFS title, will be getting a HD 5750 coupled with a C2D E7500 2.93 and 4GB of ram , which should last me another 5 years hopefully.

I knew nothing about gaming or video cards so on the advice of pc world asked before we bought if railworks train simulator would play on my computer , showed them spec sheet and they said yes but could be a little juddery on video. WRONG it will not play at all as message comes up GRAPHIC CARD DOES NOT SUPPORT PIXEL SHADER 2.0 so I guess we will probably have wasted our £20 unless I can get a refund from them.

Well a back in 2003 i got my first ever Pc, with this card in, so back then i knew nothing, but as time has passed i know a great wealth about pc.

This card is very old, but that said upto about 2007 with the birth of games like Crysis and Bioshock ect the cards uses was over, but still working fine (And is to this day, after 7 years albeit performance drops but that because of other components within this ancient Pc)iv only just ordered a new pc to be able to handle today games without a problem after 7 years! manly thanks to this card

If you play older game mainly form 2003 and 2005, this card can max those game, after and you may struggle.

Overall not a bad card, don't really buy it now though, better cards are on the market but back then this card was a beast, stick to you're HD5000 series or 4000 series

The cards main strong type of games are RTS's and RPG's, i found those less action but slightly more detailed games (E.g. Star wars Knight of the old Republic II and Rise of nations games run almost flawlessly on it)

Not sure how much this card goes for nowerdays, but if you're compelled to buy it and dont do much 2007 and on gaming you should be fine.

(Last word, i have only 512mb on my pc, this really chokes the card, so get at least a 2GB duo core, and 1GB to 2GB RAM)

Hope this review helps anyone, happy day all

I am using this card since 1 years and it has disappointed me for the first time with its Pixel shader. Reason of disappointment is that it cant run NFS ProStreet. I Played Need For Speed whole series throughout but now I cant play PROSTREET. I bought the CD but its useless yet because of error message at the start PIXEL SHADER 2.0 not found.
Nevermind, This card has good performance uptil now. Still Most of the games can be played with it.

Continuous graphics flow, however bad corners with the ATI Radeon 9200 SE in my experience. Power full device in accord with its price as far as I am concerned. I still recommend this video ati graphics card.