GeCube Radeon 9550 Platinum Edition
Final Words
 I believe our readers have already got a clear idea of the features of GeCube Radeon 9550 Platinum Edition during the tests. The performance level simply can't leave you cold. In fact, we get a board of the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro level with the bit slower memory installed, whereas much lower clock speeds are set for Radeon 9550 by ATI. ATI wanted to introduce a new product into the low-end sector of the market, but instead GeCube offers another modification for the Middle-end sector, but at an incredibly low price. It was declared that GeCube Radeon 9550 Platinum Edition boards would be sold at about $100. If that is true, the board is definitely doomed to success in its price category.
As regards the direct competitors from NVIDIA (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700) whose prices also dropped as low as $100 mark for a retail board, the situation here is not that simple. At most tests, both boards demonstrate practically the same performance, which we haven't seen for long in our experiments. The main ace of trump for ATI is as usual applications with version 2.0 shaders which are still few in numbers, but their mass release is indeed at hand. In our view, the product of GeCube looks more preferable, especially with its remarkable overclocking options. In any case, it is up to the buyer to decide =).
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