Creative Labs Savage 4 Video Cards Review

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5,
1 votes

Price Paid:  $100.00 from Babbages

Summary:
This is a decent card for a lower end system. Very good for internet and basic graphic apps; it even is pretty powerful for video recording, editing, and playback. I bought this in summer of '99, and $100 was a good price at the time. I ran it on an AMD K6-500 with 128 megs ram, and it kept up well. However, even with the new processor (Athlon), I have not seen much improvement. I plan to try a Radeon 7500, so we will see how it goes.

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Price Paid:  $40.00 from classifieds.excite.com

Summary:
The card was a great way to get my favorite 3d games up and running on my celeron 366 for a minimal amount of money. Games were better than expected in win98, but a bit sluggish in win2k. Stable for me, despite the fact that i am constantly reading of other people reporting otherwise.

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Price Paid:  $25.00 from Local dealer

Summary:
Awsome card, i mean for shear direct 3d performance. brilliant.!. Compare this card to cheaper 3d cards and you won't be dissapointed. but don't buy this card expecting 170fps at 1024x768, that's insane, but if you want an alround good performance and dirt cheap 3d accelerator card, - This is the best one currently available.

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Price Paid:  $75.00 from dont know

Summary:
Oh my god, what a headache nothing but headaches
firstly it crashed my computer, i booted it up and i got the dreaded blue screen....
(this on Windows 98)
i put in my old ATI, and it worked fine, i then upgraded Win 98 to WinMe, and believe it or not it worked fine, I don't know if it was new drivers or what? then under winme my cd-r didnt work but thats another story

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Price Paid:  $90.00 from Global Micro

Summary:
Good card, I play Half - Life alot with it, even though the FPS chart on Team Fortress Classic (a Half - Life Mod) Only says I am getting 8-12fps I think it is a bug because it runs smooth at 800x600 and I have no lag.