A good "made in Taiwan" olive-PCB "Predator" card from Mad Dog has an
MX440-8X chip.

A bad "Made in China" Predator card from Mad Dog made by PrimeTek with red
PCB had an MX440SE-8X chip.

Maybe this was the reason for the difference in picture quality (or the
absence of any quality whatsoever for the red sub-species), or some other
smaller components on the red board are out of spec. I told the manager of
Office Max that it is in their best interest to send back all of these
cards. A lot of innocent consumers will suffer an eye strain.

Maybe the red cards are still OK for a digital hookup?



"K. W." wrote in message
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Thanks for your detailed description. If you saw your review, I
probably wouldn't buy this card in the first place...