I might be a bit out of the loop at the moment but has anyone else noticed this?

Check this out here

Looks to be not a bad card... finally updating some of the things the 4500 series failed to deliver... 4x AGP, Hardware T&L, Direcxt 8 Support and a higher clock speed.

With these added features delivered from the Kyro II SE chip integrated with the tile based rendering and internal 32 bit rendering form the previous Kyro II...perhaps this card could throw a slight spanner in the nVidia -vs- ATi competition...Although we all know about the Hercules tie with ATi...So that might suggest a slower performing card than it promises to be, to keep their ATi partners happy?