Diamond Multimedia launches new Diamond Stealth X550 graphics card --- TheThirdMedia Hardware

Affordable PC Graphics Upgrade for Gaming, Video Editing, Web Surfing
and Digital Photography
(Chatsworth, CA, September 20, 2005)?Diamond Multimedia
(http://www.diamondmm.com), a leading manufacturer of PC graphics cards, sound
cards and modems, both dial-up and broadband, today announced the
company has launched the Diamond Multimedia Stealth X550, which features
the ATI Radeon X550 graphics chip set and 256 MB of DDR2 memory.

"We are excited to release this high-performance Stealth product. It's
just the thing for the PC gamers and those who would like a great
graphics experience while surfing the web, editing videos or simply
viewing digital photos," said Bruce Zaman ?We?re proud that Diamond
Stealth products are some of the best selling graphics cards in the
industry and our X550 will be no exception.?br />
Features:
* GPU: Radeon X550
* Bus Type: PCI-Express x16
* Memory: 256MB DDR2-128 bit
* Core Clock: 400 MHz
* RAMDACS: Dual 400 MHz
* API Support: DirectX?.0, OpenGL 2.0
* Output: DVI, VGA, TV-Out
* Supports for Hardware and Transform and Lighting (T&L)
* Supports Dual Monitors

The Radeon X550 is the best price to performance ratio for the
value/mainstream desktop graphics market segment. A key point for the
X550 is that it is a next step up from X300. The X300 is clocked at
325MHz, while the X550 comes in at 400MHz. In addition, the X550 will
contain a utility developed by Diamond that will take advantage of its
overclocking capability. It fully supports the PCI Express?x16 bus,
the newest PC industry standard for delivering maximum real-time
performance for graphics-intensive software applications. It also fully
supports DirectX? and combines ATI's SmartShader?and SmoothVision?br />technologies for use in top gaming titles, digital photography, video
editing and web surfing. The inclusion of ATI technology allows for
augmenting the Core/Memory Clocks for improved 3D performance.



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