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Used it to bump up an older dual Xeon machine (2 x 2.0Ghz 32bit). Made a world of difference. Used it for almost 2 months now with not a problem. I would buy it again if I needed another.

this card has been giving me problems from day 1. a cold boot would show nothing on the screen but the rest of the computer is working. even keyboard's num lock key lights up which means it's getting through the BIOS. only way to get it to show anything from a cold boot is to reset the system after it's been running for a few minutes. it seems to happen only if I cold boot after the system has been off for more than an hour. system getting out of sleep or hibernation is also a problem. nothing shows on the screen unless i reboot, meaning I lose everything in the memory. when it works it works. fast.

cooling fan is also very loud. if you must get an AGP, I would get the 4670 instead. it's true the 4670 won't get you a significant performance gain but i would think that it won't have any of these boot-up problems.

skip this card. calling sapphire was also a torture. i never got through.

again, skip this P.O.S.

This card helped my 5 year old gaming system keep up with the newer games. This is a very VERY powerful card :)

Hello Folks,

I pop in modern games like Operation Flashpoint - Dragon Rising, which asks for a dual core. I have a single core 2.8 GHz Pentium IV. The game works great! I will guess it's because of this great video card. My PC is something like NINE YEARS OLD! The graphics card keeps extending the life of my old bessy! LOL

Marc

I've got a Dell Dimension 8300 as my computer for work. It still runs perfectly, and I'm not going to replace it anytime soon. But the graphics performance with its old video card lagged. I replaced an nVidia 6200 AGP card with this ATI-based Sapphire card. What a difference. The WinXP drivers from Sapphire's website run well on this 3 ghz Pentium 4HT system (I skipped the drivers on the CD-ROM that came with the card). No conflicts, no problems. I'd upgraded the power supply in the computer when the old one started failing earlier in the year, and the PCI-E six pin cable fit the card perfectly (there's a 2x4 Molex adapter if you don't have the PCI-E cable on your power supply). I switched over the AGP interface to 256 bit in BIOS, and the graphics are cranking along. I can actually get decent framerates on Team Fortress 2 and Half Life 2 (running via Steam) with mixed settings. It's a lot faster for general work 2D graphics, too. Screens don't lag when scrolling quickly, etc. So far, a great card.