Saturday, October 25, 2008

PowerColor

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Company
Established in 1997 by TUL corporation
[1] , PowerColor, Inc. is one of the largest graphic card manufacturers in the world. [2] It is headquartered in City of Industry, California, and is a subsidiary of TUL Corporation (Taiwan).
Manufacturing Facilities
The majority of PowerColor cards are manufactured by a company, little known outside the hardware manufacturing world, called FoxConn.

Products
PowerColor is a licensed producer of
AMD Radeon video cards, but does also produce Nvidia video cards under the Zogis brand name. PowerColor targets a wide range of customers by producing ATI video cards that range from affordable cards appropriate for low end workstations to cards for high end gaming machines. PowerColor's manufacturing arrangement with FoxConn has given it an opportunity to change specifications of cards, giving PowerColor the ability to announce products with higher specifications (overclocked by default) than ATI or it's main competitor Sapphire offer.
PowerColor products have been widely reviewed and some even given awards by hardware review sites.
Support
PowerColor provides it's products with a 2 year warranty. In order to
RMA a video card, the end user must sign up to the PowerColor User Club and register their card. The RMA process is only available to end users in North America (not retailers) and the customer must pay shipping.
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Being a great believer in exclusive clubs, I rushed over to the PowerColor website to join the PowerColor User Club, but alas, it doesn't seem to exist. I had visions of some kind of virtual treehouse painted in wild hues with a radically diverse set of members, all willing and eager to discuss overclocking and the RMA process. I am not sure where I will find a substitute.

In the mean time I looked for "Power Color" on the web and found this quiz.

As it turns out:


My Power Color Is Lime Green


At Your Highest: You are adventurous, witty, and a visionary.

At Your Lowest: You feel misunderstood, like you don't fit in.

In Love: You have a tough exterior but can be very dedicated.

How You're Attractive: Your self-awareness and confidence lights up a room.

Your Eternal Question:"What else do I need in my life?"

Well, that is a lot of outcome from a 5 question quiz, but I am a bit unclear what to do with it. Am I supposed to decorate in lime green. Good God, that would be unbearable. Do I just ignore my power color? But if I do, what might I be missing out on? This would have been easier had my color turned out to be a soothing aqua, but lime green is problematic. I guess the good news is I now have something in common with Carolyn Hasenfratz who actually seems to have some talent for using lime green.

Then there is the issue of how to deal with my "eternal question" which seems either overly materialistic, or just plain needy depending on how one interprets it. Do I ask the question constantly? This seems a much more appropriate question for say, the grocery store, then a cocktail party (where I will be lighting up the room anyway with my self-awareness). Wait. How the hell does one light up a room with self-awareness? I can buy the confidence piece, but did you ever walk into a room and think: Wow, that person is really self-aware, this is such a cool party! I guess such a person would, while not worrying about invading someones personal space (confidence), would never do it (self-aware).
Next time you need a room lit, call me. I will bring my self-awareness and my lime green shirt.
What else do I need in my life?

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