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Product ReviewsPowercolor Radeon HD 3650 725MHZ 512MB 1.0GHZ DDR2 AGP 2XDVI HDTV Out Video Card
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With 11 User Reviews
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 Rating: Review Date: 01/03/09  |
Cons: fan noise it appauling
Pros: quite powerful certainly extended the life of an old PC |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/30/08 |
Cons: not many, cept when your agp board dies...
Pros: Decent price, low noise, and games with most middle weight cards Comment:
Figured one last upgrade for ye old p4. Worked ok for a few months, but then the board died. So, i guess it was a bad buy, and the usual advice is to spend money on pci-e cards since they can go into any new computer, whereas agp cards don't do much once your agp system goes poof... Still a decent card though, keeps up with about a 6800gt |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/13/08 |
Cons: Must have its own unshared power core to fuel it, else unstableMust use ATI 's AGP hotfix driver
Pros: AGPCheapDecent performanceDX 10.1 and SM 4.1 support (I don't use Vista so it is useless for me, but it is there if I ever switch.) Comment:
I got this video card as a final upgrade piece for my old system. It does it job quite well there. Its performance is bottlenecked by my CPU, so my gaming FPS doesn't really change much whatever resolution (up to 1280X1024) and detail I set at. Games I played in the last 5 months are BioShock, HL2: Orange Box, Guild Wars, Combat Arms, and others.It would have been a 5/5 card, except for its drawbacks. It took me a while to figure out that the card MUST have its own unshared power-core to run stably. This means that you might have to use less hard drives than you could have. Overall, as long as you have a decent power supply, this card is not bad as a final upgrade for your old AGP system. This review was modfied by poster j 10-13-08 09:35 PM This review was modfied by poster @ 10-13-08 10:43 PM |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/06/08 |
Cons: AGPPrice
Pros: DirectX10Reliability Comment:
$90 for this card on sale. AGP is slowly disappearing, as it should. It's useful to for putting together a cheap PC, but you'd be wiser to just save that money towards a new and better PC. It's not good enough to play the latest games, but it's not too horrible either. Like every other video card, you should grab the latest drivers from Ati's site. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/19/08 |
Cons: driver issues no support for AMD driversDDR2
Pros: cheapbest offering for under 100$ for agpdirect X 10 Comment:
got this for a friend of mine needing better gaming performance for his aging system, the card works fine but drivers are hard to come by , and the card has no support for amd official drivers , troublesome finding the right drivers on powercolors website, the card does his job ok for now but i fear they might not make new drivers for it , i indeed knew all that before purchasing, but i was kinda expecting more performance from it ,still better then my pal's old one. product is alright. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/11/08 |
Cons: must use drivers supplied with card as the newest ati drivers are incompatible with this agp card
Pros: nice solid reasonably quick card.Easy to install Comment:
other than driber support this card works fairly well for the money you pay. its reasonable quick for an agp card. I personally like it . i have tried others and am satisfied with the results of this one |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/09/08 |
Cons: Price. AGP hotfix driver needed.
Pros: Performance is good. Has ATi overdrive. Comment:
Just got this for a P4 3ghz 2gb ram system. It seems to work well and the AGP hotfix driver worked well. There is a plastic sheath over the heatsinc which seems pointless. It probably keeps dust off, but raises temps by a few degrees since it block air convection a bit. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/14/08 |
Cons: Drivers are a nightmare.
Pros: Fairly quiet.Doesn't run too hot.Decent performance on fairly new games. Comment:
So far I've only played BioShock with it, but it's been performing very well. In BioShock with everything maxed on 1024x768 I haven't noticed any FPS slowdown at all. It's a fairly good deal for the price. The only problem I've had with it was getting the drivers to work, which was kind of a hassle. This review was modfied by poster @ 06-14-08 06:21 PM |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/12/08 |
Cons: - Incredibly troublesome driver installation- Powercolor support is non-existent
Pros: - Price- Performance Comment:
This card was problems from the day I got it. The drivers wouldn't install properly even after 2 XP reloads. Finally, after some tweaking (see my forum message on this card's page) I was able to get the drivers to install off of the CD, however they are several versions behind current ATI drivers, and updated drivers will not recognize this card. In all fairness, once working, the card performs very well for the price, however the inability to update drivers will prevent future benefits. Lastly, Powercolor's technical support is non-existent. Over the past 5 weeks I have e-mailed them 4 times and have yet to receive a response (not even an acknowledgment) to any of them. I strongly recommend you find another solution, as I am not the only one who has had these problems. The other reviewers site driver issues, and others report similar issues on my forum message on this forum. This review was modfied by poster @ 06-12-08 01:16 AM |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/10/08 |
Cons: Drivers only work from install disk. There seems to be a problem (it does not recognize 3650 AGP cards) with current (June/July 2008) ATI drivers and no new ones posted on PowerColor's site provide an update. I have played several games though and works fine.
Pros: Tested on 2.4 GHz Xeon, 1 GB ECC Ram and 250 GB HDD on Windows XP. I've played a few games on the card - Company of Heroes and Call of Duty 4 and it runs quite smoothly with 4x AA at 1024 x 768. I'm not a gamer but I'm quite satisfied with the smooth framerate of this card, considering I don't have a Core2 or better system and more RAM. I've played some movies on it as well and it does a nice job. I haven't had the chance to test the accelerated video on something like Hi-Def movies. Fan can get a slight bit noisy when gaming (within 25 to 30 db range) but it doesn't add to system heat notably. Under normal use, its dead silent. Comment:
Nice, quiet card and good performance. Other than driver issue which ATI should fix, def a great card to add life to older system. I'm happy. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/26/08 |
Cons: can sometimes here a high pitched wine coming out of it (not fan noise either)
Pros: Last hurrah for AGP! Good performance, decent cooling solution Comment:
Great little card for the price. Allows me to use my old mobo for a HTPC with this. the UVD works great and has allowed me it improve the picture from my HTPC. Great price when on sale. Drivers for all AGP card from ATI have been problematic since 7.9 so make sure you know what you are doing when installing them (get the official AGP hotfix from ATI to get everything running). |
I'm running it in a Soltek 3801A machine, that has Cool n'Quiet, which is not respected by the ati drivers, I've lived with it for a couple of months but its now really annoying me. Taking the plastic cover off reduces the noise slightly.I wouldn't recommend it if you want a quite card. The fan never shuts down to low speed. This review was modfied by poster v 01-03-09 05:45 PM This review was modfied by poster @ 01-03-09 05:29 PM