ATI Technologies will officially release its budget line Radeon 9200SE graphics card by the end of July, according to sources. The 9200SE is already available in limited amounts in certain markets, but a worldwide debut is expected later this month. Gigabyte Technologies, CP Technology, Info-Tek (ITC) and other graphic card makers all plan to produce and sell 9200SE-based cards, according to sources.

ATI had already released the 9200 and 9200Pro, and the new addition will complete its 9200 series of budget, medium and high-end cards. The 9200SE will be a toned down 9200, with lower memory bandwidth of 64-bit (versus 128-bit for the 9200) and lower core clock speed of 200MHz (versus 250MHz).


source:
http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Ar...ages=04&seq=17

this piece of news has come about time for me.....
my graphic card (GeForce2, very old and lousy) has just submitted its resignation letter yesterday......

need to get a new graphic employee.....

the 9200pro is a worth consideration.....

Specifications
System Requirements
Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron?, AMD® K6/Duron?/Athlon®/Athlon XP® or compatible with AGP 2X (3.3V), 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (2X/4X/8X).
64MB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive
Graphics technology
RADEON?9200SE, RADEON? 9200, or RADEON? 9200 PRO graphics technology
Memory configuration
128MB of DDR memory
RADEON? 9200SE available with 64MB or 128MB DDR
Operating system support
Windows® XP
Windows® 2000
Windows® Me
Windows® 98/98SE
Monitor support
CRT monitor: 15-pin VGA connector
RADEON? 9200 PRO ? DVI/VGA/Video-out
RADEON? 9200 ? VGA/RCA/S-video
RADEON? 9200SE - VGA/RCA/S-video
RADEON? 9200SE - DVI/RCA/S-video
Display support
Register compatible with VGA
Supports VESA PnP compatible displays
BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA
DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support
VESA Display Power Management Support
Separate horizontal and vertical synchronization at TTL levels
Features
CHARISMA ENGINE? II
Four parallel rendering pipelines process up to 1.1 billion pixels per second
High performance 2nd generation hardware transform & lighting engine
Advanced vertex shader support for the latest programmable effects
SMARTSHADER? technology

Full support for DirectX ® 8.1 programmable pixel and vertex shaders in hardware
1.4 pixel shaders support up to 22 instructions and up to 6 textures per rendering pass
1.1 vertex shaders support vertex programs up to 128 instructions
Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL ® via extensions
Programmable shaders provide enhanced 3D effects in over 100 existing and upcoming game titles

SMOOTHVISION?
Image quality enhancement features for Direct3D? and OpenGL ® applications
Programmable full-scene anti-aliasing supports 2 to 6 samples with user selectable performance and quality modes
Advanced anisotropic filtering supports 2 to 16 samples for high quality texture rendering with minimal performance impact

HYPER Z? II
Lossless Z-Buffer Compression and Fast Z-Buffer Clear reduce memory bandwidth by up to 25%
VIDEO FEATURES
FULLSTREAM? Hardware accelerated de-blocking of Internet video streams
VIDEO IMMERSION? II delivers industry-leading DVD playback
Integrated MPEG-2 decode including iDCT and motion compensation for top quality DVD with lowest CPU usage
Unique Adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing feature combines the best elements of the "bob" and "add-field" (weave) techniques
YUV to RGB color space conversion
Back-end scaler delivers top quality playback
4-tap horizontal and vertical filtering
Upscaling and downscaling
Filtered display of images up to 1920 pixels wide
Hardware mirroring for flipping video images in video conferencing systems
Supports 8-bit alpha blending and video keying for effective overlay of video and graphics

DISPLAY FEATURES
Dual integrated display controllers to drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
HYDRAVISION? software provides complete control over multi-display configurations with a user-friendly interface
400MHz Dual integrated DACs with 10-bit per channel palette
Integrated DVI-compliant 165MHz TMDS transmitter
Integrated TV-Out support up to 1024x768 resolution

GENERAL FEATURES
Comprehensive 4X and 8X AGP support
Windows® Logo Program compliant, Optimized for Pentium ® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon? 3Dnow! processor instructions
Highly optimized 128-bit 2D engine with support for new Windows® XP GDI extensions

Warranty : 3-year limited warranty

2D display modes:
Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates (Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M colors:
Monitor Resolution Hz
640x480 200
800x600 200
1024x768 200
1152x864 200
1280x1024 160
1600x1200 120
1920x1080* 16:9 120
1920x1200 100
1920x1440 90
2048x1536 85
*16:9 aspect ratio monitors are supported on 1920x1080 and 848x480 on Microsoft® Windows® XP, Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Microsoft® Windows® Me. The complete list of resolutions depends on the driver version and operating system. NOTE: resolutions are limited by the performance of the attached monitor. DVI-I monitors will be limited to 1600x1200.


Maximum 3D resolutions:
Colors Monitor Resolution
65K colors 2048x1536
16.7M colors 2048x1536
Resolutions and refresh rates are subject to change. Not all monitors support all modes and refresh rates.

Heh...I bought a Sapphire 9500 non-pro board for $150 from Newegg and softmodded it successfully. It's running at 9800 speeds now. :P Me no need no steenkin 9200. ;)