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3DVelocity wish to thank Liz at Crucial
in the UK and Rae at Pathway
PR for providing these cards for review.
Part Two : Crucial's Radeon
9700 Pro.
What do Crucial know about making
graphics cards? The question should be does it really
matter? They are offering a basic reference version
with a minimal bundle in exchange for the lowest priced
Radeon 9700 Pro on the market. Let's take a look.
The very reference design, it would have been
nice to see a different colour board to match Crucial's
corporate colours but it's things like that which
bump up the end user's expenditure.
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The back is also identical
to ATi's design of course with the exception of
the Crucial stickers.
There is both nothing
which can be classed as impressive or a poor choice
on Crucial's card. It is so reference based they even
use Samsung's ram, a strange thing for a memory company
to do so it must be genuinely cheaper to keep the
card totally standard. The build quality was excellent
as is the usual ATi trend, it is not a flashy card
in the slightest but then again, the Radeon is about
pure performance rather than 'physical prettiness'.
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