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by Rafael Hernandez on February 18, 2005 · 0 comments

System Cooling takes a close look at Arctic Cooling’s Silencer 4 heatsink/fan combo. The cooler attaches to most reference design ATI Radeon X800 graphics boards extending their width into a second expansion slot. The extra space allows it to exhaust…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 15, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has a look at 7 different video cards based on ATI’s Radeon X800 Pro chipset. A wide array of features in this batch with differences in software bundles and cooling solutions. There’s also a pair of boards that support…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 4, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a review of the Sapphire X800 graphics card. This PCIe card has quite a bit more memory than a standard X800 configuration and it packs in a decent software bundle for the price. Interesting video card…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 2, 2005 · 0 comments

Lost Circuits has a review of the Sapphire RADEON X800XL graphics card. The board utilizes ATI’s latest mid-range chip and pairs it with some faster than normal memory to keep it competitive with other mid-range solutions and, in some cases,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 31, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the ATI FireGL V5000 graphics card designed for use in workstations for 3D applications. The FireGL line pairs their consumer level chips with special drivers and firmware which boost the card’s performance in 3D modelling…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 27, 2005 · 0 comments

Matrox has announced its Parhelia DL256 PCI graphics card designed to push high res displays. The board is meant for PCI or PCI-X usage so it should fit into a wide range of workstation PCs. Looks like a great product…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 26, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech ran various tests using Valve Software’s popular Half-Life 2 video game on a variety of CPUs from both Intel and AMD. Quite a few chips were tested measuring frame rates and how well CPUs scaled across various graphics cards….

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 26, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has the mid-range HIS X700 Pro IceQ Turbo VIVO 256MB video card on their testbed. The card is designed for PCI Express boards and has one of those nifty IceQ (Arctic Cooling-like) heatsinks which keeps things cool and noise…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 24, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has a review of the Sapphire Radeon X850 XT video card. The board uses ATI’s current top of the line chip and comes on a fancy PCI-Express board all wrapped up in a dual-slot cooling system. The card is…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 21, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a review of yet another Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT video card with their look at the MSI NX6600GT-TD128E. This PCI-e card is SLI-capable and comes with a mighty large collection of video game titles. A solid mid-range product…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 21, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the ATI All-In-Wonder X600 Pro, an all-in-one graphics card, TV tuner, and FM tuner. The AIW line has been popular due to all of its features crammed onto one video card and should be just…

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