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The computer graphic card is the most important thing to render all the latest games and video and image simulation software fast and with quality. Because they use different languages they must have the DirectX acting as a translator or a bridge between them.

Each time a graphic card manufacturer launches a new model, the first thing they brag about is the support to the latest DirectX instructionsand also the the top spped they curretnly have as well as the quality of the images.

Let’s go back in the time. Do you remember the super fast Radeon 7500? They used to be the first ones in almost every ranking on offline magazines. I used to buy them when I was a teen and I wish all the times I had that card. That 7500 Radeon was the most expensive thing I have ever seen and if I had the money I would not buy it. Why not? If the price was not an issue, the Directx support would have been as well as other non supported technologies you need today but those cards do not support anymore. If you have a 7500 PRO today, you can see it’s still one of the fastest things, however this card does not run any game because it does not have the technology to do it so. The best it supports is the DirectX 7. About some month later a new one came to the market. It was the 8500 PRO and could support faster speeds and a new DirectX. The problem is that if you got it at a super expensive price, today you have the power to run the games, but you lack technology sup port.

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Every six months or a year at best, the graphic cards they all have brand new technologies that games require in order to run the right way, but those who spent a lot of money in top class old cards cannot run it because they game won’t just start or show it’s true color power because the card does not have the pixel shade or the anti aliasing to do such thing…

This is why you shoiuld always rely at best in medium class graphic cards and leave the best ones to those who know nothing about computers!vis