PowerColor is a
Taiwanese
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graphics card
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brand established in 1997 by TUL Corporation (撼訊科技),
based in
New Taipei
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,
Taiwan
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. PowerColor maintains office locations in a number of countries, including Taiwan, the
Netherlands
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and the
United States
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. The United States branch is located in
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and serves the
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Latin America
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n markets. TUL also has another brand, VTX3D, which serves the European market and some Asian markets.
Products
![PowerColor Radeon X850XT PE](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/PowerColor_Radeon_X850XT_PE.jpg)
PowerColor is a licensed producer of
AMD Radeon
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video cards
A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or mistakenly GPU) is an expansion card which generates a feed of output images to a display device, such as a computer moni ...
. The majority of PowerColor cards are manufactured by
Foxconn
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Hon Hai Technology Group in China and Taiwan and Foxconn internationally, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturer established in 1974 with headquarters in Tucheng, New T ...
.
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PowerColor's AMD video cards range from affordable cards appropriate for low-end workstation
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s, to cards for high-end
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gaming machines, thus catering to a wide range of the market. PowerColor's manufacturing arrangement with FoxConn has given it the ability to change the specifications of cards, allowing them to announce products with higher specifications— overclocked by default—than AMD or its main competitor, Sapphire Technology
Sapphire Technology () is a Hong Kong-based technology company, founded in 2001, which produces graphics cards for personal computers and workstations, motherboards, TV tuner cards, digital audio players and LCDTVs
Sapphire's products are based o ...
.
PowerColor products have been widely reviewed and have gained a number of awards at computer hardware
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review sites.
Support
PowerColor provides a two-year warranty on its products. To return
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a video card, the end-user must sign in and register their card. The return process is available only to end users in North America,PowerColor - "Warranty Information"
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See also
* Diamond Multimedia
Diamond Multimedia is an American company that specializes in many forms of multimedia technology. They have produced graphics cards, motherboards, modems, sound cards and MP3 players, however the company began with the production of the TrackSta ...
– for North and South American markets
References
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1997 establishments in Taiwan
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Graphics hardware companies
Electronics companies established in 1997
Taiwanese brands
Manufacturing companies based in New Taipei