Although I do not believe that the G200 deserved such a bad reputation, it did have it's flaws. The next most glaring problem was the lack of a powerful core. The G200 usually came in dead last in most tests and was thus branded a slow card. What the G200 had was something that no other card at that time, and quite surprisingly no card even now has. After being in the graphics business for over 23 years you tend to learn a few things, and one of those is that not matter what kind of crap you served them last time, it can all be wiped away if you have something amazing for them this time.
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