Diamond Stealth S120 Radeon 9550 256 MB GPU

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000COLIFU
• Item model number: S120AGP256SB
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,735 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 13, 2007

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
The game is on! Take your graphics performance to the next level with the Stealth S120 Graphics Accelerator Card from Diamond Multimedia

Explore stunning new worlds of cinematic gameplay with the Stealth S120 graphics accelerator card, featuring ATI Radeon 9550 graphics technology. The Stealth S120 delivers an unprecedented combination of power, performance, and Microsoft DirectX 9 optimized support for the serious gamer. The Stealth S120's Quad-pipe architecture and high precision shaders will maximize your long-term entertainment value, pushing the most compelling next-generation games to their limit.

• Full AGP 8X support
• DirectPlay of the Microsoft DirectX 9 brings improved multiplayer access to groups connecting over LANs and the Internet
• Supported by Catalyst, the industry's most stable 3D acceleration software
• Also supporting the latest OpenGL functionality and feature sets
• Optimized to run the most demanding 2-D and 3-D next-generation games and applications without putting extra strain on the CPU
• Video immersion integrates features to provide unprecedented support for digital and high definition video.
• Fullstream removes blocky artifacts from streaming Internet video to deliver smoother looking, higher quality online content
• Quad-pipe architecture delivers real-time cinematic rendering and animation
• Smartshader 2.0 technology supports Microsoft DirectX 9
• Smoothvision 2.1 technology delivers the sharpest textures without sacrificing frame rates

What's in the Box
Diamond Stealth S120 GPU, quick install guide, ATI Catalyst drivers install CD, Diamond Tools software, Deus Ex: Invisible Wars

Product Description
Explore stunning new worlds of cinematic gameplay with the Stealth S120 graphics accelerator card, featuring ATI Radeon 9550 graphics technology! The Stealth S120 delivers an unprecedented combination of power, performance, and Microsoft DirectX 9 optimized support for the serious gamer. The Stealth S120's Quad-pipe architecture and high precision shaders will maximize your long-term entertainment value, pushing the most compelling next-generation games to their limit!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great with Windows Vista, December 6, 2006

By	TF "TF" (Allentown, PA USA) - See all my reviews

I installed this in a Windows Vista Ultimate system and Vista automatically downloaded and installed the latest driver. I have Aero Glass running and the performance rating is in the 4.x range. Also, the Diamond version of this card has an onboard fan to minimize the heat (the ATI version doesn't). Also, Media Center works really well under this card.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great card!!, January 25, 2007

By	PJT "Paul" - See all my reviews

I bought this mainly so that I could run Microsoft Robotics Studio simulator. Anything less than an ATI 9400 specs. will not run the simulator due a lack of shaders which the 9550 has. After I installed the card the simulator ran great and I've been very happy with it. The 3D graphics run without any choking and I'm running it on a 1GHz PC with 512MB RAM. I would definitly recommend this card.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great video card for the budget minded!, April 3, 2007

By	Cynthia Perry "graycyn" (Pendleton, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this card for my husband for Christmas. Now, he LOVES the performance and it made his Tiger Woods 2007 golf game look GREAT! So much so, that I am rather envious as it doesn't look anywhere near as nice on my computer which has an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200!

The one reason I give it 4 stars is that from the reviews and from the PICTURE posted here on Amazon, I thought it would have a cooling fan. It does not, or at least the one we received from Tiger Direct does not. It has a heat sink instead. So if you must have a cooling fan, realize that sometimes this product ships with a heat sink.

That said, there has been no problem with the card through lack of a cooling fan, the heat sink seems to work just fine and my husband often spends hours on his computer.

My husband has a home built system, running Windows XP Home SP1.


Update 9/16/2008:

Well, the lack of a cooling fan has not been a problem. The card has been running without a single hitch or glitch. I'm sorry I didn't give it 5 stars instead of 4.