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by Pedro Hernandez on October 3, 2008 · 0 comments

Apple had a busy week and a little scare. Apple Rolls Out iTunes and Apple TV Updates Apple Avoids iTunes Shutdown, Users Rejoice Apple’s iPhone 2.1 Firmware a Miracle Worker? New Nintendo DS! But you can’t get one in the…

Read more Tech ETA Week in Review – Friday Oct 3, 2008

by Rafael Hernandez on October 3, 2008 · 0 comments

Graphics chip makers have been doing a good job of increasing performance of their products but they haven’t been able to reign in the amount of heat their creations pump out. Dual slot coolers with high-speed noisy fans are the…

Read more Gigabyte GV-R485MC-1GH Graphics Card, Powerful and Silent

by Rafael Hernandez on September 30, 2008 · 0 comments

It’s not all about the massive framerates and insane resolutions with your fancy pants anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing, sometimes you just need a simple graphics card for web browsing and watching your Blu-rays. ATi’s new Radeon HD 4550 has many…

Read more ATi Radeon HD 4550, Targeting the Low-End

by Pedro Hernandez on September 30, 2008 · 0 comments

New budget cards from ATI offer hope for gamers on a budget, as long as you don’t push them too hard (the cards, not the gamers). Both go on sale in October, with Direct X 10.1 support and with the…

Read more ATI's New Budget Cards: ATI Radeon HD 4550 and 4350

by Rafael Hernandez on September 28, 2008 · 0 comments

Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 is finally joining the GPU processing club. The update to the professional graphics editing suite now includes an OpenGL acceleration option. Here’s what it means for all you pixelsmiths, from APC: For instance, with the…

Read more Photoshop Finally Puts GPUs to Use

by Rafael Hernandez on August 20, 2007 · 0 comments

bit-tech has a look at the HIS Radeon HD 2600 XT IceQ Turbo graphics card. The company is known for slapping large coolers on its IceQ line allowing for lower temperatures and less noise compared to stock cooling solutions. A…

Read more HIS Radeon HD 2600 XT IceQ Turbo Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on August 14, 2007 · 0 comments

bit-tech pits the latest in mid-range graphics cards against each other. The Radeon HD 2600 XT and the GeForce 8600 GT offer up compelling feature set (DX10 support, HD offloading) but they aren’t the performance beasts you’d expect in the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 9, 2007 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews has a look at the ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT, 2600 Pro, and 2600 XT graphics cards. The boards hit the low-end to mid-range price points in style with decent 3D performance but its most sought after feature…

Read more ATI Radeon HD 2400, 2600 Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on July 31, 2007 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the Diamond Radeon HD 2900 XT 1GB graphics card. This card ditches the 512MB total and GDDR3 memory chips and goes full bore at 1GB of GDDR4 RAM which offers better performance at…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 23, 2007 · 0 comments

MVKTech has a look at the PowerColor Radeon HD2600XT graphics card. ATI’s latest mid-range chipset has an interesting mix of features including DirectX 10 support and impressive high-definition video playback . A great choice for current applications but don’t expect…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 16, 2007 · 0 comments

Driver Heaven has a look at an ATI Radeon HD2600XT based card as well as Nvidia GeForce 8600GT and 8600GTS graphics cards. The boards represent the latest in mid-range graphics from the companies offering great image quality with questionable 3D…

Read more 8600GT(S), HD2600 Roundup