Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 5
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.9-1.667
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Distribution:
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Fedora Core 3
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I had many issues with the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro running under redhat 7.1, redhad 8 and now FC3... The card runs great with 2D graphics, but I've run extensive testing on 3d Applications, and games, noting that... under windows 2000, 3d applications ran -perfectly- fine. Under redhat 8 I could never get the drivers neccessary to run 3D applications with agp 8X enabled. I could get simple 3D graphics to run for long periods of time, but no commercial games even came close to the compatibility that windows provided. I am NOT a windows enthusiast... I no longer run any version of windows at home. I refuse to purchase windows products any longer, but I think that the next generation Nvidia Ge force 7800 is the product for me. I won't invest any further disappointment in ATI products, as it has been a long expensive, disappointing process.
The problem with FC3 was that, when running the Radeon 9700 pro under FC3, the red wire on the power cable inside the case (red, black, black, red) actually -burned- out... just from playing neverwinter nights with the livna drivers... You might then criticize livna, but this is the wrong thing to do, as it is ultimately the hardware that could not withstand the punishment of 3D graphics that neverwinter nights gave the card. For a 128MB card, this is totally unacceptable. I could not get the default -supposed- 3D graphics drivers from ati to work by itself. The livna drivers were required for most gaming applications, even those that were tested under wine. The thing that shocks me is that most people give this card two paragraph reviews without backup on any of their points. It's great to say that a product is excellent... but it's awful when there is no proof. From now on, I vote nVidia!
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