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I bought this card in order to get a more diverse range of hardware to test the video game engine I'm creating on, and ATI cards are supposed to be similar to the current generation of consoles. I was in a rush and barely had any money in my account, so I bought this card. I was pleasantly surprised that not only was it more powerful than my previous budget NVidia card, but used much less power when idling, and was about one forth of the size, giving some much needed space between my video card and sound card. I clean out my case twice a week, and if the fan on the video card is clean, it's more quiet than my hard drive.
For sure, it's not a powerhouse card, forcing me to actually optimize what I'm working on or to turn my options down in games (the nerve of the card!) but it does its job nicely, quietly, cheaply. In addition since it's the newest architecture, it can use all of ATI's lovely graphics debuggers. For the price - about 70 dollars, it was a good week - I expected something much worse.
Again, I was pleasantly surprised with the card. If I didn't need to eat, I would have gotten something more expensive, but unfortunately I'm not a soulless robot yet, thus this is what I was forced to get. Normally being forced into something would make me irate, but I don't mind being forced into this decision.
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For one thing I put this in my htpc that I am using for XBMC video watching. I was so impressed with how this unit utilizes power and what it brings to the table that I bought the 240 version for my desktop pc. I was planning to switch the 250 to my desktop computer because that one has a better processor and could utilizes the shaders correctly and as a result would not bottleneck the system.
I have a 4850 in my gaming pc that uses more power and is more card for the board but for casual videos and gaming I am impressed with the price and value of this particular card. If the opportunity comes up make sure to get the ddr5 and pay extra for it because how the pci express slot accesses memory is important.
On Radeon R7 250 cards all 384 shader units of the Oland GPU are enabled and the GPU is clocked at 1050 MHz. Most R7 250 cards have GDDR5 video memory with a clockspeed of 1150 MHz, either 1GB or 2GB. The TDP of the R7 250 is 65W, and in terms of pricing it's positioned against the Nvidia GeForce GT 640.
Radeon R7 240 cards have only 320 active shader units and the GPU is a little slower with 780 MHz. The R7 240 supports both GDDR5 and DDR3 memory, but DDR3 is more common here. It's clocked at 900 MHz. The R7 240 is a very efficient card with a TDP of only 30W. The R7 240 is positioned against the Nvidia GeForce GT 630.
I initially paid more and bought the gt 630 however the card would not work in my motherboard and I believe it was stretching the pins out in my board since it was way too big nonetheless I returned it and went with AMD instead and I'm glad I did.
I am way too busy with work and taking two computer science courses to do it now though. When I have time over the summer I might do the old switcheroo.
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I purchased this to drive a QuadHD 2560x1440 monitor and it does the job just fine. I can only get 1920x1080 using a DVI-D cable but the card renders the full QHD using the HDMI cable included with the monitor. Currently driving the QHD and a standard 1080p monitor with the card and it does a fine job of that. I always thought that the DVI-D port/cable combination was supposed to drive the max resolution on a QHD monitor but that is not the case with this card. It's not a big deal since the HDMI works just fine. It's just another case of not enough product information being listed by Amazon.
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Decent. So far my experience has been good with the card except for a few blackouts. I believe the blackouts to actually be graphics drivers crash issues. I have looked things up and I don't believe it to be the actual card overheating or such as it does crash randomly. If you want a stead graphics card stick with the AMD Radeon HD 6000 series for a few more months, then purchase this card or one greater in the series and I am sure you will enjoy. Sapphire has been making good cards in this series, as I notice other brand names seem to be having overheating issues. This card isn't giving me that problem. Hope this helps
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Didn't had any problems installing the card nor the software. Some complain about the max resolution but i just have a 720p 23" TV, and still looks awesome. If you don't care about the price for a big full HD TV then don't do it with the video card an get a more expensive one.
I think that in this price range this is one of the best you can get right now.
I considered investing a little more to get a R7 250X, but I realized that it was too big, this card fitted well even when blocked the next PCI-E slot, but i didnt need it, but that was a problem of the motherboard being too small.
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