Radeon Vs Powercolor

[adamp2p]

What I am sure of is that in most cases Powercolor sticks exactly to the ATi reference model. However, in some cases, they have been known to use lower quality RAM chips.

[Spicker]

Originally posted by adamp2p@19 January 2004 - 10:34
What I am sure of is that in most cases Powercolor sticks exactly to the ATi reference model. However, in some cases, they have been known to use lower quality RAM chips.

yes thts for there Powercolor 9600pro EZ 400/400 <bad ram>

[lynx]

Ati are rumoured to be intending to pull out of graphics card manufacturing, and concentrate on simply supplying the chips. However, until other card makers up their market share, they are continuing to supply cards too. These are at inflated prices to encourage buyers to look at other manufacturers, mainly because they don&#39;t want people to swap to Nvidia if they can&#39;t find a card made by Ati.

[kaiweiler]

thanks for the info lynx, never knew that&#33; B)
so really then there&#39;s not to much, if any difference between ATI and something like a powercolor or saphire?? performance and quality wise
ATi is just making them expensive so that others will still buy the same card just made by another company instead of switching to nvidia. makes sence in a way
i just want confirmation on the fact that there is no performance decrease when buying a powercolor, if someone were to do so

Kai

[bigdawgfoxx]

I did so, and the thing freaking rocks. I would recommend powercolor if you want to get that

[johnboy27]

I had a powercolor Radeon 7500 (64 mb ddr) and the thing worked extremely well.

[RGX]

I have heard nothing but good things about powercolours, although i&#39;ve never used one myself...however, my next GFX card will probably be one due to a severe lack of funds