Crucial Technology Europe Offers Crucial Radeon 9800 Pro Graphics Card

2 November 2003 22:31 GMT / By PRESS RELEASE

Comment: Crucial have started providing graphics cards and at £250 its not bad for a top of the range card. We are in the middle of testing the Guillemot 9800 Pro at the moment, so keep an eye out for the review soon.

Crucial Technology Europe, one of Europe's largest direct memory upgrade providers, today introduced the Crucial® Radeon™ 9800 Pro graphics card, powered by ATI® technology and featuring 128MB 2.86 nanosecond double data rate (DDR) synchronous DRAM (SDRAM). The next evolution in the high-end graphics card line, the Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card replaces the Crucial Radeon 9700 Pro graphics card with measurably improved cinematic-quality graphics for gaming and sophisticated CAD and graphic design.

"Tests in Crucial's performance lab show the Crucial Radeon 9800 Pro card delivers a 22 percent performance gain over the 9700 Pro card when running 3Dmark®03, a leading third-party graphics benchmarking software," said Crucial Technical Support Manager Mike Sanor. "That is an incredible jump in performance and results in some of the fastest, most life-like graphics achievable on computers today."

The Crucial Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card features 400MHz core clock speed, 128MB 2.86 nanosecond DDR SDRAM, 256-bit memory interface, dual-display capability, DVI-I output, six-foot S-video and RCA cables, a DVI to CRT converter, an S-video to RCA converter, DirectX® 9 support, and AGP 8X support. The graphics card is available on Crucial's Web sites at www.crucial.com/uk and www.crucial.com/eu. The card is currently priced at GPB243.99 and 339.99 euro. All Crucial graphics cards come with a multilingual user guide, limited lifetime warranty, free shipping within the U.K., discounted shipping to many European countries, and Crucial's renowned customer service and technical support.

Here's what you get;

* 400MHz core clock speed
* 128MB quad-channel DDR memory (2.86 nanosecond)
* Support for DirectX® 9
* DVI-I output, six-foot S-video and RCA cables
* A DVI to CRT converter
* An S-video to RCA converter
* Support for DirectX® 9
* 256-bit memory interface
* Dual-display capability