SAPPHIRE 100195L Radeon X1650 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail

excellent card for the money

Reviewed By: on 4/2/2007

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

Pros: Its an excellent card for the money. I built a new computer for my bro and picked this graphics card which was a major upgrade from an old AGP vid card. If you have PCI express 16x, this card is a good choice for the money. If you can afford higher, Id probably go for it, this was excellent for me because of my budget.

Cons: None whatsoever. Im getting wonderful results since christmas 06

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Awesome Card For Price

Reviewed By: Josiah on 7/25/2007

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Run just about any game at full settings. Quite fan. Comes with just about all the connectors you would need.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: This is not a con but it is a bit bothersome. To get video card working properly with Vista you must go to ati.com and get the vista drivers from there. But after you do that the card is golden. If you are on a budget and want a powerful video card you must buy this.

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Pretty Good

Reviewed By: jteddymd on 5/6/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: doesn't require direct link to power supply

Cons: not the greatest thats out there

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Reviewed By: barracuda771 on 4/20/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: The card has performed excellent so far and for the price I wouldn't hesitate to purchase more. I like to game and so far this card has performed without a hitch. Fine tune after install and have fun.

Cons: The only con I found was with the rebate. If you apply for the rebate and send in the tag off the package with the serial number and part number then you can't send the product back for replacement and of course that tag has to be sent in for the rebate. I filled out the rebate and sent in all the information but even though I followed the directions (to the letter) after reading Sapphire's rebate rules I'm left wondering if I will actually see my rebate. I don't like rebates that have so many possible disqualifactions. It seems there looking for any little reason to disqualify your rebate.

Other Thoughts: Otherwise the card is performing well and I'd buy more of them but I think I would search for ones without a difficult rebate and spend a few extra bucks to get it with out the worry of whether or not I'd receive the rebate.

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Sapphire ATi Radeon X1650 512MB is a solid card

Reviewed By: krispy on 4/19/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: 4380 3DMarks05 bonestock on my A64X2 4600+ 1MB DDR2
with AV+AS+Firewall on. EZ install and driver setup on 1st try. Nice looking blue PCB too. Displays very nice on 22" flat panel at high resolutions/optimum. Doom3 on ULTRA detail at + 1024x768 and 1280 no-problem at all. Oblivion looks great too. Lots of I - KANDY and FPS for the price. DVI- and VGA outputs too. Covers ALOT of installed diplays nicely. AERO GLASS ready. 512MB is nice too. Crossfire capable. Mail-in rebate.

Cons: Mail-in rebate.

Other Thoughts: With a motherboard that supports Crossfire, these cards in the Crossfire setup must be nice together, I am assuming. I like expandability like this so I grabbed two. Nicely packaged with all cables and driver disc. Running XPSP2.

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