Radeon HD2600XT Agp 512MB 2PORT Dvi-i Tv/hdtv Out

Manufacturer: VISIONTEK MASS STORAGE Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price:$296.16 Our Price:$166.62 Features: Satisfaction Ensured. Manufactured to the Highest Quality Available. With True Enhanced Performance. Latest Technical Development. Description:

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So far ahead of its time....
The chart itself is large. The only problem is, is that, the difficulties in the driver have to be still created for all the current plays. Oh and if you play the halation: Advanced combat - do not install the driver of HDMI for the chart or you will not be able to play your game.


Upgrade worked flawlessly
For those people who are eager to upgrade with this card but are a little nervous because some people are having issues, don't be. For want of a better word, they are idiots.

So, don't be an idiot. The instructions included are pretty clear. Don't get ahead of yourself and just swap out the card. With the old card still in place, uninstall the old drivers, reboot within safe mode and delete the remaining file directories. I also ran CCleaner to get rid of anything else I missed.

Now swap out your card and then point the operating system at the CD included for the drivers.

That's it! Easy.

I have upgraded from a FireGL X1 128Mb and I'm very happy with the performance. I'm running it on a Dell Precision 450 with dual 3.2Ghz Xeon with 4GB of memory with Vista Home edition. The onboard psu only puts out 350W so I purchased an 'Ultra Power Partner' PSU for which I'm using as a secondary psu to specifically power the new graphics card.

The primary reason for this purchase is to give my system more umph for the Matrox TripleHeadToGo Digital I've ordered. I'll report back later on how it handles powering 3 screens.


The one you want if you're stuck with AGP and you want ATI!
it's very hard to find in stores (only Fry's carries it in Houston now) but this is the one you want if you're a hardcore gamer still stuck with an AGP mobo and you can't afford to upgrade it to a new PCIe mobo yet...

driver support is very minimal right now, but keep in mind that these cards literally just came out, so it'll take a while to get them up to their full potential with the best drivers for the best performance...

installation is easy, but you will need at least a 350W PSU to power it, and it must have either ONE standard PCIe power connector or TWO standard peripheral connectors available to plug it in and power it up... so be aware of this before you purchase... I had to open the box to find out...

once you get it up and running, you'll enjoy all the bells and whistles of the superior PCIe-only HD2900XT card that you really need right now, at a fraction of the price... compare the typical price of $250 for this card to the typical price of $500 for the HD2900XT, and it's a bargain...

using Colin McRae's Dirt as a benchmark, I'm able to run it with all the options maxed out, and all the special effects enabled, at a resolution of 1024 x 768 x 32 @ 85HZ refresh rate, without any slowdown whatsoever...

you will need a very powerful system to take full advantage of all the features of this card though... I had to upgrade my RAM and my sound card to achieve these results, so pay close attention to my system specs:

Compaq Presario 8000
3GHZ Intel Pentium 4 single core CPU
800MHZ FSB with Hyper Threading
2GB Kingston Hyper X single channel DDR RAM (upgraded from 512MB RAM)
512MB VisionTek ATI Radeon HD2600XT 8X AGP video card (upgraded from 128MB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 8X AGP video card)
Sound Blaster Audigy 4 sound card (upgraded from Sound Blaster Audigy 1 sound card)
430W Thermaltake Purepower PSU (upgraded from 250W PSU)
Windows Vista Home Premium (upgraded from Windows XP Professional)

so in light of all the upgrades that I had to perform on my system, just to make the switch to Windows Vista and Direct X10 gaming, you might want to just buy a whole new system, or build a new one yourself, as that's effectively what I had to do... the only thing that I haven't had to upgrade yet is my CPU and motherboard, and I really should've upgraded both of those before I upgraded anything else... however, the cost of upgrading compared to the cost of building or buying a whole new system was a big factor for me, and I expect that it will be for most people... next time they literally change everything on us like this again though, I will wait until I can just build a whole new system, as I don't think I really ended up saving that much money by choosing the upgrade path, even doing all the work myself, but at least I didn't have to pay for labor...

all that aside though, I'm very happy with my purchase, and all the other upgrades that I performed to restore my system to its former glory... at the time that I bought it nearly 5 years ago, it was one of the best that money could buy, but needless to say that wasn't the case nearly 5 years later... I was able to run any game with all the options maxed out, and all the special effects turned on, and now I'm able to do it once again...

in summary, if you're on a budget, but you still want to experience the best of the best that modern PC gaming has to offer now, this is the card you want, unless you have a PCIe mobo and you can afford the HD2900XT...


waiste of time and $$
I recieved this thing it didnt have a power splitter in the box, no words on the box so i had to open it to find out! i installed it in my VISTA ultimate and it did NOT work right at all... as metioned earlier NO DRIVER support ...NONE ATI does not even recongize this as a "real" product!

my radeonx1650 blows this thing away! i wanted DX10, but it was/is NOT compatible with my machine... only recommendation for anyone still using AGP w/ a dual core cpu and 2gigs of ram.....buy a new MOBO w/ PCI-E!

these cards do NOT work for the intended purpose... i sent this card back to amazon...... aweek ago, now i wait to find out if/when i get a FULL refund!!! i hope this goes smooth..so i can continue buying more stuff from here!


Check my images that are related to this product.
Well it's finaly here! The DirectX 10 card that is small enough to fit in your AGP case. The card is very new and needs drivers that are being developed. The new drivers will fix issues that I am having with 2 out of 8 games and utilities that I used to benchmark. So I can only use AA of 2x or 4x and not 6x or 8x. I guess I need Vista to use DirectX 10. Supposedly there is a DirectX 9.0L for XP and it is DirectX10. I don't know to much about that though. There is a decal that comes with the Black Box version (Look at my images assosiated with this product) and I don't have the chemicals to apply the decal to my case =( need to goto the hobby store. I reccomend not changing the heatsing but rather get a portable air conditioner and direct the airflow to the front of the computer.



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