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Strengths: Worked without any problems, Graphics looked good
Weaknesses: Nothing in particular
Summary: The card worked well and when matched with a Spectre X22-WG LCD monitor, things looks pretty good. However, my son clearly likes it for his games, but this is clearly overkill for a normal web browsing/office work!
If not too careful, once can miss the requirement of a new power supply (this is not a comment on this card as every single graphics card has this problem). I had bought what I thought was a reasonable system from Costco, but it turns out it had only a 300W power supply and no PCI-E power connector even though it had a PCI-E empty slot. SO had to first change the power supply and then plug in this card.
The card is a tight fit, so I would advise that you first open up your computer and check that you have sufficient space. I ended up moving some of the PCI cards and leaving the slot next to the ATI card empty - otherwise the ATI card was touching the back of the PCI card (this is clearly a problem with the motherboard not leaving enough space but I suspect a lot of the motherboards have the same problem).
Second thing was there was a cable (looked like a USB/memory card/Firewire cable that was coming from the front of the PC box to the middle of the motherboard, this cable had little wiggle room and had to squeezed underneath the long ATI card. I barely made it. If your computer has cables that need to cross the ATI card you should check to see if there is sufficient play in them. The ATI card is pretty long (almost the length of the motherboard).
Overall very pleased and now to upgrade to Vista....
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