When it comes to mainstream videocards, you buyer has to know that a card cannot be deemed poor if it doesn't blow every game and benchmark out of the water. What you have to consider is the performance to value ratio. In the case of the Excalibur Radeon 9550 reviewed today, you just cannot ask for more performance and overclocking potential from a sub US$100 videocard. With the soft-modded drivers and an overclocking utility, this card really picks up the pace and was even seem to tackle and take on the FX5600 Ultra in some benchmarks."