ATI Technologies Inc. Xpert 98 AGP 8MB

Product Review

Your ATI board will blow you away with advanced 3-D capabilities such as a 1.2 million-triangles-per-second hardware triangle setup engine and full AGP 2x operation with pipelining and sideband addressing to pump textures onto your screen. Windows 98's AGP support allows you to use your main system memory as a texture buffer to create a completely immersive game-playing or design experience. An AGP 2x system with an ATI AGP board running under Windows 98 will provide the best visual display ever seen using a mainstream graphics acceleration product.

Supercharge your 2-D performance with the blisteringly fast 64-bit pixel-pumping ATI Rage Pro Turbo-equipped board. You'll be well equipped to tackle demanding applications such as Word and PowerPoint as well as fast and furious DirectDraw games such as Age of Empires. ATI has worked very closely with Microsoft to ensure it has the most stable Windows 98 display drivers in the industry.

DVDs will blow your mind with a capacity of up to 26 CDs to store razor-sharp images, stunning video, and ear-bursting audio. Your Xpert 98 is the card of choice for crystal-clear wide-screen DVD playback up to 848 by 480 resolution on your monitor or big-screen TV under Windows 98. The ATI Xpert 98 AGP includes hardware MPEG-2 decode assist (motion compensation), which will dramatically improve software DVD frame rates on AGP-equipped systems (20 to 30 percent faster than other video cards). Now you can watch your favorite movies with the sharpest images available and theater-quality sound. You will also be well equipped to handle the upcoming influx of games and multimedia software products using this powerful new technology.

Product Features

Powered by ATI RAGE graphics technology
Brilliant 2-D graphics up to 1,600 by 1,200 at 85 Hz
32-bit, true color, 3-D graphics up to 1,280 by 1,024
DVD playback with ATI's Software DVD Player
Windows 98 ready

Accessories

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

(7 customer reviews)

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Not for Win2000 second monitor, December 14, 2001

James Preston "Jim Preston" (Santa Clara, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ATI Technologies Inc. Xpert 98 AGP 8MB (Personal Computers)

I installed this video board for a second monitor on my WIN2000 PC. Many conflicts with drivers, etc. After a few days of research I found out that the ATI Rage 128 boards will work but this one won't. Hopefully this review will save you the trouble I went through. Dell sales people and even techies were lost on the issue and it took a week to get a straight answer from ATI.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

A great mid range card, July 11, 2000

James A. Young (Paramus, NJ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: ATI Technologies Inc. Xpert 98 AGP 8MB (Personal Computers)

The card is a great upgrade for someone who wants a high performance card. I used the ATI Expert 98 8MB PCI card last year for my overall needs. It's a good card for games and it's amazingly fast for an 8 MB card. The AGP card is being used as a second card because I have an All-In-Wonder 128 PCI which has TV out.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

Good card-needs tv output, June 2, 2000

"bobby001" (Duncannon, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ATI Technologies Inc. Xpert 98 AGP 8MB (Personal Computers)

This card has never let me down. It always runs great-and fast even with its 8MB RAM limit. My only problem is that I wish it had TV out for the on board DVD decoder. This product did hook me on ATI products. My next upgrade will be the expert@play.