February 2006

by Rafael Hernandez on February 2, 2006 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has tested out how much power modern graphics cards are sucking down. The power draw has steadily been increasing in GPU land, requiring much more capable power supplies. A nice set of charts but feature sets and performance,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 1, 2006 · 0 comments

AMDZone has a look at the Coolermaster Aquagate Mini R80 liquid-cooling kit. The cooler comes preassembled with all of the tubing attached and coolant filled making it an easy install process for the novice. A great little kit that’s surprisingly…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 1, 2006 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews takes a closer look at the ATI Radeon X1900 graphics chip. The cards are their current top-end product so they saw it fit to compare it in CrossFire form with Nvidia’s 7800GTX 512 in SLI mode. Quite a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 1, 2006 · 0 comments

LostCircuits has a look at the nVidia Quadro FX4500 SLI graphics chip. The Quadro line is aimed at workstation applications such as 3D modellers and have their own driver set with specific optimizations focused on what those programs require the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 1, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a review of the ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual graphics card. Asus piled on two 7800GT chips on a single board, with their respective allotment of memory making for a very large graphics card. It’s no faster than a…

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