Re: Question - Radeon 9000

"jedi105" <jedi@dagobah.com> wrote in message
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> Just bought the Radeon 9000 to add afew years to the life of my
> computer. I was not looking for the best or the baddest. I'm actually
> happy with the quality I see in the card. Definately better than my
> Radeon 7000 and without a doubt better than my old Banshee.
>
> The question I have......actually there are 2.
>
> 1. How could ATI drop this card so fast. I was under the impression it
> is fairly new and I cant find a demo or word about it on their site. I
> see a lot about the 9000 Mobile.
>
> 2. In device manager........for some reason, there is 2 display
> adapters
>
> 1 is called Radeon 9000 and the other is called Radeon 9000 secondary.
>
> what gives?

The 9000 secondary is for the RCA-type video jack used for output to a TV
for display.

As far as I know they still support it but it's basically the "bare-bones"
card, the 9800 is getting all the attention now of course.