ATI RADEON 9800

Advantages It's fast, it's by a respectable company, takes one only one slot
Disadvantages Value for money? What value for money?

...So here we have it ladies and gents, a graphics card that would rock your wok, own up your games and make that smug look on your mate's face vanish like somebody kick him between the legs. You will get all this, for a price of course. This card comes with everything standard that other Radeon cards come with such as AGP 8x support, 2 monitor ports, 1 S-Video port and a massive heatsink/fan with it's name on it. Installation is a sinch. Just open up PC, remove old graphics card, slide this graphics into it's place, screw it in and it's installed. Hard part would be wondering if you should upgrade the RAM and/or CPU in case it's a bottleneck. The Creative ATI Radeon 9800 XT is a very fast graphics card. It comes with 256MB DDR video RAM and has the a highly clocked GPU core and RAMDAC clock speed. I can play Far Cry at 64 FPS... Read review

Advantages Small, practically weightless, high tech, durable, gives you KILLER graphics, perfect for games.
Disadvantages Quite expensive, uses up a lot of pc power

...The ATI Radeon 9800 is amazing. But it isnt cheap. That has to be the first thing to be pointed out. You can get an acceptable laptop at such a price: 200 GBP. Unless you are REALLY into games and 3D game designing and developing, I dont reccommend you buy it. Seriously- you dont need that much power! Me...I just bought it because I'm a computer geek, and because I had quite a large budget. If you are buying a laptop or PC with this graphics card, then the price will obviously increase significantly. If you have recently bought a laptop or PC over the last year, you seriously do NOT need to buy this graphics card. Your laptop would almost certainly have a graphics card, and if its a high tech one then it will probably have ATI Radeon 9600 or 9200 with 64MB of RAM. That is enough to run the most complicated and most performance... Read review

Advantages Very Fast, Good value for money
Disadvantages Few bundled items, manufacturer website could be better

...This card is based on what is currently one of the best graphics chipsets on the market, ATI's Radeon 9800Pro. Although this is not the fastest currently available, both the ATI Radeon 9800XT and the nVidia Geforce FX5950 Ultra are faster, it certainly represents the best value near the top of the market. I have personally used this for playing some very latest games such as Unreal Tournament 2004 and Battlefield Vietnam and have been able to turn settings to maximum without slowing the game down or any other problem. To me this indicates that this card is capable or running anything currently on the market and will also still be able to do so in a years time, although by then some of the higher settings on the newest games may not recommended. For general use I always keeps settings to maximum performance (and so in theory lower... Read review