ATI Rage Fury

The rage fury is really useful for anything graphics related...input output DVD games you name it. The ATI driver problems are always a bit of a downside to these cards, but fortunately there are solutions. http://www.rageunderground.com is a great site written by someone calling themselves LightSpeed. He actually writes his own drivers for the card, and claims that he probably knows more about the ATI chipset than ATI driver writers (!) And, using the drivers, I can beleive it, my in game performance improved by around 33% looking at a few benchmarks and the like. Not only that, but hes a generous sort and is sending me ...

ATI's Rage Fury graphics card, based on its own Rage 128GL chip, offers almost everything you'd want in a graphics card. A full feature set, very fast performance, and excellent TV-out make it a worthwhile investment for gamers. Its only fault is inferior image quality when we tested it with games in 16-bit color mode. Ultrafast Rendering The Rage 128GL is a RIVA TNT-class 2D/3D chip with AGP 2X support and 32-bit rendering. Like the TNT and the Voodoo 2, the card provides single-pass multitexturing, which gives the ability to process two textures in a single clock cycle. This capability is crucial to getting good performance from games, such as Quake ...

I have been using this card for more than a year now, with mixed results but overall a quality card. It has an excellent DVD support software, which combined with the TV out was my reason for purchasing it. I am also a game player and here the Ati lags, especially on new 3d titles. I have loaded the latest - unsupported - drivers from Ati and these cure many of the game troubles, including letting them run... Ati support is second to none - try them - they respond quickly and with authority. This card is ideal for DVD and other video related uses and only let down slightly by the gameing problems, overall a good (not excellent) card. ...