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Need Graphics card help. Not too familiar with ATI cards

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DeathbyQuigley

I am currently using a Nvidia Gt 120 1GB video ram graphics card ( Yes i know its extremely old and out dated) but was shopping at a sale and someone had a ATI Graphics card for 5 dollars so i said why not. I bought it cause it was in good shape and looked newer than the one i have now cause this one has a hdmi slot.

  • Nvidia GT 120
  • 1 GB version. (no model number cause i dont wanna take it out of my pc)

To my understanding this one is a Radeon HD 3650 Graphics with an unknown amount of video ram This is all i know about the card aside from the model number which i will provide

  • ATI HD 3650
  • ATI-102-B38201(B)

Any help would be appreciated in telling me if this is better than the one im currently using in any way I tried using GPU BOSS's website to compare but i guess its down.

Thanks guys

9 years ago*

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TheKarmoCR

From all I can find on that Radeon card, it probably has 256MB.

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DeathbyQuigley

ok thank you :)

9 years ago
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MartDrummer

Ouch!

9 years ago
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DeathbyQuigley

i know haha. it will probably go into a pc that will be used for netflix of videos of that nature lol

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DeathbyQuigley

so for 5 bucks i can just sink this into another computer thats less powerful :) good to know

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aCAssassin

What are you even using it for?

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DeathbyQuigley

idk haha. i bought it from a old person who didnt know a thing about pc's and he told me 5 bucks so i took all the parts he had and most were junk but this card was in good shape. its probably gonna go into a pc that isnt used much that i own and use it for videos knowing its a older card. ill put some games i know will run with a 256 mb card on the pc to for my sis to play

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aCAssassin

Nice :D

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DeathbyQuigley

Old people are awesome, i got my cool master case from a guy out here where i lived for free cause he liked how im a younger guy that likes fixing computers. so i am very satisfied lately with how my pc parts have been slowly coming to me haha

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GPTrixie

HD 3650 used to be ok gaming card at its time, and IIRC it still has some video acceleration, though maybe not newest version.

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DeathbyQuigley

yeah i agree. i just was surprised to see it could still run some of the games i play on a normal basis :)

9 years ago
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DeathbyQuigley

Oddly enough i can run most my games on min settings should my gt 120 take a crap. ive had this card for almost 3 years of daily use and plus how ever long my friend had it before me. so this thing has had its time. i now at least have something to fall back on when this one takes its toll :). finding out it supports payday 2 and games like fallout 3 with this radeon made me very happy. Happiness over quality,or power out ways any situation haha

9 years ago
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DeathbyQuigley

LOl messing with the card now, i am utterly amazed that this card can run so many games haha, just within the last 10 minutes of using it i have some pros and cons compared to a nvidia gt 120 1gb haha.

Pros

  • Very quiet fan compared to the nvidia
  • My base preformance score went from a 5.3 to a 5.2 just switching cards so it didnt impact much there.
  • Requires less power to run, (typical)
  • Better shader and verex shader wise 4.1 compared to nvidia's 4.0 lol wow!!!!
  • Has a very seductive woman on the GPU fan cover holding a sword ;P
  • DDR3 compared to a the gt 120's ddr2 pci slot
  • Max resolution is able to go a bit higher than 1600 X 900
  • Believe it or not this card can run games like payday 2 and games of a fairly old nature even though its a 256mb card.
  • Because of my particular motherboard the 256 mb video ram goes out the window because my integrated parts of this allow me to use any extra available ram ie.(i have 6 gbs of ram total, it takes 2 that isnt being used and dedicates it towards video ram :)

Cons

  • card is 20 times bigger than the gt 120
  • Only supports one monitor whereas the nvidia supports multi
  • Has open GL support of 2.0 compared to nvidia's 3.0
  • Very out dated for newer games (duh obvious) ;P
  • Idle temp is a bit warmer than normal hovering around 82 degrees C. (who knows if they took care of it well) lol

Overall this wasnt a bad card for 5 dollars :) with my current setup its not a completely useless card. it could still play games like dota 2 and tf2 with no hickups which suprised me. Just wish it had multi monitor haha

I think this was a very well invested 5 dollar card

9 years ago
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