Sapphire Radeon HD3650 512MB DDR2 Dual DVI / TVO PCI-Express Graphics Card

This card worked ok for about a month. Then the computer started freezing up, crashing, and not restarting. Event log on the OS and bios didn't indicate anything. Ended up removing the vid card and plugging the monitor directly into the mobo. Now the computer is fine. This Sapphire card was screwing something up.....

2/20/09 Update: Beware this company! If you card dies after the amazon warranty period, you have to deal with the company directly. Even though the card has a 2 year warranty, they charge a minimum $15 RMA handling fee, so you're out at least $20 (15 + return shipping) just for them to look at the card. That's almost half the cost of a new card from amazon and you'll likely get a refurbished model with a 90 day warranty. Not worth the hassle. Amazon should stop selling this company's products......

4/2/09 Update: Sapphire RMA claims it would void the $15 charge since the card died so quickly. I had to eat $5 to send it to them, but...Read more

I wanted a dual-monitor set-up for photo editing. I ordered this card based on the low price and its support for two DVI monitors on a single card. It works great for my needs. The video driver that I downloaded from the Sapphire web site works just fine on my 64-bit Vista system. As the title of my review indicates, however, I have no idea whether this card is suitable for games.

This really is a great card for the cost. I did some research, and $50 for a video card with 120 stream processors is pretty good. I am currently using Windows Vista 32 Bit. Previously, my windows rating was a 4.3 due to my old video card.

I installed this video card, rebooted my computer, uninstalled my old video driver and went online to get the latest driver/video card software for this card (didn't bother using the included disc). After the install was complete, I updated my windows rating and it increased to 4.8. I opened the Catalyst Control Center software that installed with the driver and went to the ATI overdrive feature. I ran the auto tune feature. After rebooting my computer I ran the windows rating again where it was pushed to a 5.0

I ran a video stress test with Counter Strike Source and got 88 fps at 1920x1200 through a 24" Dell Ultrasharp monitor. The control center is great for adjusting the contrast and brightness controls for my...Read more