ATI Radeon

by Rafael Hernandez on June 8, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareXL is all over Club 3D’s high-end Radeon X850 XT PCI Express graphics card. The sight of the two slot card should be a familiar one by now but with prices on these boards falling into the sane category recently…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 7, 2005 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D has a look at the Gigabyte Silent-Pipe Radeon X800 XL graphics card. One of the more popular mid-range cards gets the silent treatment merging a whole lot of aluminum and heatpipes ensuring quiet operation. A good choice for its…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 6, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a short write-up on ATI’s latest mobile graphics chip, the Mobility Radeon X800 XT. It’s geared for powerhouse DTRs that care more about performance than battery life. Very impressive numbers put up by the chip, equalling those of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 23, 2005 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D has a look at an AGP version of the Sapphire Radeon X850 XT PE VIVO. A fancy little bridge chip has made it possible for board manufacturers to bring ATI’s PCI Express GPUs into the hands of gamers with…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 20, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at what might be the AGP slot’s last hurrah. ATI’s Rialto PCI Express to AGP chip has allowed it to bring some formerly PCI-E only boards over. TR has a look at the X800…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 18, 2005 · 0 comments

ATI has released the latest version of its Catalyst driver suite for its Radeon line of graphics cards. The update brings it up to version 5.5 which offers a number of bug fixes. Windows 2k/XP/XP Pro x64 versions are available…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 12, 2005 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D has a look at the Sapphire Radeon X800 XL Ultimate PCI Express graphics card. The board is based on ATI’s popular mid-range chip which balances good performance and a reasonable price-tag. A great card for playing today’s popular titles….

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 5, 2005 · 0 comments

BeyondD ran some tests on the Sapphire Hybrid Radeon X800 XL 512MB graphics card. ATI’s recent launch of 512MB boards means its partners have similar products up their sleave. The board has a cooler similar to that of the high-end…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 4, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the 512MB version of ATI’s X800XL graphics card. The extra memory is tacked on for those games that require quite a bit more storage for game texture and shader information and higher resolutions…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 29, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the IBM Thinkpad R52 laptop computer. IBM’s notebooks have a reputation for being solid machines and this R52 appears to be just as hearty. It’s not as slim as some of their other series but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 28, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report pit the four major Athlon 64 supporting chipsets against each other. The Nvidia nForce4 Ultra, SiS 756, VIA K8T890, and ATI Radeon Xpress 200 can all handle PCI Express peripherals, some more than others, with the Xpress…

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