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Old 31/12/05, 19:28
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Re: Upgrades help

That could well mean the card is defective. Try it someone else's system...


That marketing talk on the auction is great though:

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Celestica's Gold Edition RADEON 9200 SE delivers a dazzling 3D experience to PC enthusiasts with the best performance in its class, optimized for today s most compelling gaming environments and applications. Driven by an advanced quad-pipe architecture, RADEON 9200 supports the AGP 8X standard, doubling the bandwidth of competing products and enabling more engaging characters and effects. The Gold Edition RADEON 9200 includes highly customizable tools that help redefine visual realism. SMARTSHADER supports DirectX 8.1 feature sets, enabling cinematic-quality lighting effects, while SMOOTHVISION delivers the sharpest, clearest textures without sacrificing frame rates.
They make "Quad-pipe architecture" and "best performance in its class" sound like good things, and "supportsDirectX 8.1" and "AGP 8X" sound like features. ;D