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- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 1 year
- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 1 year
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Runs Win 7 Aero and nearly automatic installation
- Pros: Great PowerColor tech support.
Helped resuscitate a nearly dead DELL 3000.
One of few 512mb Directx10 PCI cards that will run on a 250w power supply.
Enabled 3.5 Windows 7 Areo rating and 5.2 3D Business / Game rating on Windows Experience Index.
Installation under Win 7 and DELL onboard protocols was literally automatic -- drop and go!
Fanless, so quiet.
- Cons: It's obvious in the product images and others repeat this characteristic -- fanless cards like this use a thick heatsink. The card took up two PCI slots on my DELL 3000.
- Other Thoughts: I got fantastic email tech support from PowerColor as I prepared to purchase this card. The rep sent an install sequence to address the onboard graphics issue that many who buy this card face. Very personable, and that service confirmed my choice. Although, if you have less than 300w power supply and need a PCI card that can get your machine running Win 7 Aero graphics, there are very few choices.
I did check the DELL 3000 BIOS setting for the onboard graphics and found that DELL's protocol offered two options: Onboard and Automatic (the factory setting). So, with my 3000, there was nothing to do in BIOS. I removed a useless modem card to make room for the "fat" HD2400, dropped the new card in, and rebooted the machine (don't forget to connect the monitor to the new DVI port!). Win 7 automatically installed the newest drivers (8/17/09), and the DELL updated the Display Adapter in Device Manager to ATI (onboard didn't even appear anymore). The whole process was automatic!! WOW!
Good enough
- Pros: -Inexpensive
-Good for my older p4
-Runs most games I play on my old p4
-Runs consistently
- Cons: -Big heat sink: it takes two slots. I expected this.
-Low end video card but it runs well.
-Didn't quite fit correctly with my compaq case. Had to bend the case's backplate a little so I can screw in and secure the card.
- Other Thoughts: I put in a vantec pci slot cooler to suck the hot air from the heat sink. I can warm my fingers on it during cold winters. =)
Some older games will suffer from reduced framerates, but this is problem with said games than the card.
nice
- Pros: I bought this card to use in an older Dell while I was upgrading my gaming computer. Worked perfectly, runs WOW at medium settings(shaders on low) at 1440x900 and runs Left4dead on medium at the same resolution. Overclocks stable 25% proc/ 20% ram with a slot cooler below it, but shows very little difference in 3dMark06 scores OC'd(probably because of the 64-bit bus and DDR2).
- Cons: Price. This card cost almost as much as my 4830 open box card did for my gaming computer.
- Other Thoughts: This computer(2.2G P4, 1G DDR ram, this card, generic sound card w/ optical out, and Lite-on DVD-R) in a cooler master HTPC case serves as my starter HTPC now running power DVD 9 ultra and nero 8 ultra. I did have a Sony 5-disc changer w/ 1080i/720p upconvert running an HDMI cable and this HTPC setup just running through the analog D-sub cable beats it hands down in picture quality. A few people have said that this card fails to play Blu-ray, and I can't speak from experience yet, but Cyberlink's Blu-ray program for testing whether your computer is Blu-ray capable shows this card to be ready(with the 11/08 drivers, for some reason the newest ATI drivers are not passing the program's specs).
| Model |
| Brand |
POWERCOLOR |
| Model |
24PRO256M PCI |
| Interface |
| Interface |
PCI |
| Chipset |
| Chipset Manufacturer |
ATI |
| GPU |
Radeon HD 2400PRO |
| Core Clock |
525MHz |
| Stream Processors |
40 Stream Processing Units |
| Memory |
| Effective Memory Clock |
800MHz |
| Memory Size |
256MB |
| Memory Interface |
64-bit |
| Memory Type |
DDR2 |
| 3D API |
| DirectX |
DirectX 10 |
| OpenGL |
OpenGL 2.0 |
| Ports |
| D-SUB |
1 x D-SUB |
| DVI |
1 x DVI |
| TV-Out |
HDTV / S-Video Out |
| General |
| RAMDAC |
400 MHz |
| Max Resolution |
2560 x 1600 |
| CrossFireX Support |
No |
| Cooler |
Fanless |
| Dual-Link DVI Supported |
Yes |
| Windows Vista |
Certified for Windows Vista |
| HDCP Ready |
Yes |
| Packaging |
| Package Contents |
24PRO256M PCI
Driver Disk
S-Video to Composite Adapter |
| Manufacturer Warranty |
| Parts |
2 years limited |
| Labor |
2 years limited |
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Reviewed By: spyder3010 on 11/10/2009
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: less than 1 day
