Crucial Radeon 9600 Pro Videocard Review

By Ian Bell January 4, 2004

Quote from the review at PC Stats:

“I bet this holiday season quite a few of you out there are going to be getting new videocards. After all only videocards (aside from maybe a new processor) can dramatically increase your gaming enjoyment. While Crucial is not a name you’d think of when purchasing a videocard, they’ve been selling their own branded cards for the last year or so. After some initial teething problems, Crucial now sells some of the best high end ATi videocards on the market. Team that up with Crucial’s excellent level of customer service and it’s not hard to see why their cards are gaining so much popularity! Now Crucial are offering some options for the budget/mainstream market as well.”

Read the full review

Read Designtechnica’s review

Editors' Recommendations

Publisher

I work with the best people in the world and get paid to play with gadgets. What's not to like?

Computing

The first Apple Vision Pro reviews are painting a messy, but exciting picture

A man wears an Apple Vision Pro headset.

Few Apple products have generated as much heated discussion as the Vision Pro, and that makes it harder than ever to know whether you should get one. But even if you’ve already made up your mind, it can be worth seeing what other people think of the most important Apple product in years.

While there are still a couple days until the Vision Pro goes on general sale, the first reviews have just been published. We’ve scoured through and jotted down the verdicts, from the good to the bad and everything in between. Here’s the lowdown.
The good: incredible quality and deep immersion

Computing

I’m a monitor reviewer, and these are the upcoming displays I’m most excited about

The MSI MEG 321URX monitor at CES 2024.

There are a ton of exciting monitors launching in 2024, and we already have a first taste of them. Following a string of announcements at the beginning of the year, we know about monitors coming from LG, Asus, Acer, MSI, and more, all of which are slated to launch soon.

We're still waiting on pricing and release details for most of these displays, but they're going to release at some point in 2024. Here are the monitors we're most looking forward to this year.
Asus ROG Swift OLED PS27AQDP

Computing

This was the most exciting gaming laptop I reviewed in 2023

The lid of the Lenovo Legion 9i.

I've never used a laptop quite like the Lenovo Legion 9i. It's the only laptop I've given a perfect score, which you can read about in my Lenovo Legion 9i review, and it puts many of the best gaming laptops to shame. It's out of reach for most people -- it's certainly too expensive for me -- but I didn't touch another laptop this year that excited me as much as the Legion 9i did.

Sure, it's a powerful laptop, but when you're spending $3,000 (or more) on a gaming laptop, you expect peak performance. The Legion 9i stands out so much because it refines this class of laptop. It takes all of the elements that make 16-inch desktop replacements impractical and turns them on their head. It's not a flawless laptop -- no laptop ever is -- but it's the closest I've seen this year.
Slimmed down