Well, I think it's a stopgap, remember that right now its the fastest single slot video card. That's the important part as the common people think that if a company has the fastest single card, when it also has the fastest mid range and low range video cards.
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AsRock 945GCM-S
Pentium Dual Core E5200 @ 2912Mhz (233x12.5)
Palit Radeon 4850 Sonic 512MB gDDR3
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