So I won a hd3650 agp for the price of shipping.
I don't know much about these cards.. it seems to be mid range of the series. I really don't get the Radeon numbering, is it after the 9000 series..?
Is it useful for my Pentium m maybe? I guess it won't be possible to install it in windows 98 but maybe an interesting card for XP?
the cooling looks a little on the weak side imo.
HD3650 is not mid range GPU, more of a low end, and when I game, I had to adjust to upper end of low and in many games set to low in most cases. I know this as I had 3 of these, one was AGP and all are DDR2, and couldn't find any using GDDR5 even on ebay recently and multiple times in past. HD3830 and HD3850 are mid range.
Also x800, x850 are suitable for 98SE and are the last models supported. HD3xxxx series are firmly in XP area.
Cheers,
Great Northern aka Canada.
The good thing about this card is that it will give adequate performance for early to mid WinXP games (the one's that can give trouble on Win10) while using little power and generating low amount of heat.
I'm running a HD4650 in my Pentium M build exactly for this reason, as the HD3850 just makes everything much hotter inside the case.
That's my general concern with most radeons I've owned, to be honest, always when I cheaped out and bought Radeon and I some cases AMD I kind of regretted it because of fan noise. Oh well I'll try the card when I get it.
Pity these do not come with VGA output.
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AlexZ wrote on 2021-07-03, 16:46:Pity these do not come with VGA output.
If you are referring to the Radeon 3650 based cards, they typically have DVI-I which gives you VGA output using a, cheap, passive, generic DVI-I to VGA adapter .
