Sapphire Radeon X1650 Pro Expert Reviews

When it comes to passively cooled graphics boards from ATI, Sapphire have been king of the hill for several generations now, thanks to their 'Ultimate Edition' series of GPUs.  These first came to market with ATI's Radeon 9x00 series of parts, courtesy of...

While the Radeon X1650 PRO may not be the most blazingly fast piece of graphics hardware ever to make its way into a PC, there's no doubting what Sapphire's Ultimate Edition board brings to the table - Reasonable performance coupled with good image qualit...

The new ATI Radeon X1300 XT is based on the RV530 GPU core which is used on the X1600 series. That alone should bring quite a nice performance boost. On top of that Sapphire has added GDDR3 memory and a healthy clock increase. There is no need to run an o...

Good performance, Good price, Stock overclocked, GDDR3 Memory, Crossfire capable

No temperature monitoring, No automatic/manual fan control, Memory is not cooled

When you think "X1300 XT" you would expect just a small performance increase compared to the X1300 Pro since the marketing names are so close. What ATI did however, is give you X1600 performance for X1300 price. The performance difference to the X1300 is

So, this means that our Radeon X1650 board on test today features three shader units per pixel (or fragment) pipeline, of which there are four pipelines on both RV530 and RV535.  This gives us a grand total of four fragment pipelines (or one quad of pipel...

As we mentioned in the opening to this review, our conclusions regarding the Radeon X1650 PRO just after its launch were largely dependant on pricing and availability occurring as had been promised - Well, one month on, retail boards are indeed now availa...

When we reviewed PowerColor's Radeon X1650 PRO a few weeks back, we talked at some reasonable length about the realignment of some of ATI's parts to give them a competitive edge in certain areas of the market - Indeed, we saw on that particular occasion t...

, so I would imagine this should put this board around the £80 mark including VAT.  Although this puts the board at around £20 more than your average GeForce 7300 GT, considering its performance the board is an absolute barga

silent but capable PCI-E graphics card

If you are building a quiet, all-purpose PC without the emphasis on gaming, yet want some games playing capability, then Sapphire's Radeon X1650 Pro Ulimate Edition is a good choice. But - and it's a fairly significant but - make sure your motherboard has...

Windows Vista certified, budget price

Performance

The Sapphire Radeon X1650 Pro isn't the hottest card on the market, but it's a good budget card if you won't be playing the latest games. The X1650 Pro has been Windows Vista certified and will let you run the Aero interface in Windows Vista.

Back in the day, a sub-£100 graphics card was a sure sign you were scraping the bottom of the gaming barrel â€" but you get much more for your money nowadays.

The X1650 Pro's specifications aren't eyepopping, but it's kitted out well considering its price. If you're in the market for a card and don't want to spend more than £140, this one is currently the best bet around.

The graphics card Sapphire Radeon X1650 Pro is perfect for casual gamers. Thanks Crossfire support is their performance by 60 percent.

ATIs new beginner middle-class graphics chip Radeon X1650 Pro test. Find out if it for the latest 3D titles fast enough or not.

Cheap graphics card entry for all current games at medium resolutions and quality settings.

Radeon x1650xt 256mb DDR3