Zardon: Can you explain "certification" and the various steps involved in the process?
Rick: Certification is quality. The certification process is designed to ensure that anyone using an ATI product will have a positive experience. Everything from installing the card, configuring the software and running applications and games are tested. We look at everything. Manuals are thoroughly read. Cables and peripheral items are tested. We even check to make sure the box has the right branding and product specs. We also have thermal and voltage tests to help us determine the stability of the product design. When we are done we know everything about the product and are satisfied that if it was going in our home systems, we?d be happy.
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Zardon: Can you provide us with a list of your current certified partners?
Rick: We have a complete list of Certified products, and partners who certify, at: http://ati.com/products/certified/index.html
You can also look for the ?Graphics by ATI: Certified? Logo on certified product packages and brochures. Only Certified product can carry this logo.
Zardon: Does certification also test for driver compatibility?
Rick: We test for driver compatibility with the drivers that come on the product?s Installation CD and then on subsequent CATALYST? releases. Our team is involved in building CATALYST? drivers and submitting them for Windows Hardware Quality Labs certification. Any product that passes ATI Certification gets added to the CATALYST? driver. We test the CATALYST? driver builds on certified cards to make sure the ID?s are correct and the driver installs properly.
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Rick: Certification is quality. The certification process is designed to ensure that anyone using an ATI product will have a positive experience. Everything from installing the card, configuring the software and running applications and games are tested. We look at everything. Manuals are thoroughly read. Cables and peripheral items are tested. We even check to make sure the box has the right branding and product specs. We also have thermal and voltage tests to help us determine the stability of the product design. When we are done we know everything about the product and are satisfied that if it was going in our home systems, we?d be happy.
(...)
Zardon: Can you provide us with a list of your current certified partners?
Rick: We have a complete list of Certified products, and partners who certify, at: http://ati.com/products/certified/index.html
You can also look for the ?Graphics by ATI: Certified? Logo on certified product packages and brochures. Only Certified product can carry this logo.
Zardon: Does certification also test for driver compatibility?
Rick: We test for driver compatibility with the drivers that come on the product?s Installation CD and then on subsequent CATALYST? releases. Our team is involved in building CATALYST? drivers and submitting them for Windows Hardware Quality Labs certification. Any product that passes ATI Certification gets added to the CATALYST? driver. We test the CATALYST? driver builds on certified cards to make sure the ID?s are correct and the driver installs properly.
Read the rest here: http://www.driverheaven.net/dhinterviews/rickosborne/
EDIT: Image link corrected.
