Hello everyone and welcome back to another Budget Builds Episode where today we're taking a look at the card that crushed Nvidia. Very literally offering twice the performance at the same price it's about time we took a look at a card that has achieved a legendary status and find out...Just how good is it really, and mostly marvel at ATI offering a card with no compromise.

Intro 0:00
Why the Radeon 9700 0:15
Does it Power On 0:45
The History Part 1: Radeon 8500 and Geforce 4Ti 2:20
The History Part 2: The Launch of the Radeon 9700 3:22
The History Part 3: The Nvidia FX Flop etc... 4:13
Our Card is Crumbling Apart 5:08
The Specs 5:40
The Condition 6:47
Windows XP Woes 7:40
Windows Vista Victories 9:06
What Drivers to use 9:48
Getting Games on the PC 10:30
The System 12:03
The Benchmarks 12:38
Finally getting some other OS's on there 20:50
Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 Comparison 21:39
Conclusion 23:24

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Specs:
GPU: Radeon 9700Pro
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
RAM: 1GB DDR400 Mhz RAM
OS: Windows XP SP1, Windows 2000, Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7