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Are MSI and Gigabyte the same?
Because the MSI model RX9550-TD128 Radeon 9550 ATI graphics card looks
exactly like a Gigabyte GV-R955128D, except for the colors and heatsinks. |
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they are built around the same chipset so they would look almost the same.
"larry moe 'n curly" wrote in message ups.com... Because the MSI model RX9550-TD128 Radeon 9550 ATI graphics card looks exactly like a Gigabyte GV-R955128D, except for the colors and heatsinks. |
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larry moe 'n curly wrote:
Because the MSI model RX9550-TD128 Radeon 9550 ATI graphics card looks exactly like a Gigabyte GV-R955128D, except for the colors and heatsinks. Sometimes the big manufacturers buy their designs from independent labs? |
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On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:12:56 GMT, Matt
wrote: larry moe 'n curly wrote: Because the MSI model RX9550-TD128 Radeon 9550 ATI graphics card looks exactly like a Gigabyte GV-R955128D, except for the colors and heatsinks. Sometimes the big manufacturers buy their designs from independent labs? Sometimes big manufacturers sell their products to smaller companies to re-brand and market as their own so yes there is a very good chance it was made in the same factory from the same design. Consider that pretty much all DVD-R drives are made by one of about 5 companies yet there are probalby 30 or more brands. |
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On 5 Oct 2005 01:41:05 -0700, "larry moe 'n curly"
wrote: Because the MSI model RX9550-TD128 Radeon 9550 ATI graphics card looks exactly like a Gigabyte GV-R955128D, except for the colors and heatsinks. They're separate, unrelated companies, with separate product lines. However, it's not surprising that two companies' video card products based on the same chip with the same specs look near identical. Both ATI and nVidia produce what are called "reference board" designs which are prototypes to give manufacturers an example to go about designing their own boards for their chips. Most manufacturers just copy that design nearly verbatim and just change the stenciling for the model number and manufacturer ID. Occasionally, they'll do something creative like change the PC board colour or the heatsink design. --------------------------------------------- Thanks. MCheu |
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