The Firing Squad has a short summary of an NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT based video card they managed to get ahold of. While its performance won’t rival that of the 6800 and ATI x800 series its $200 price tag, support…
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PCSTATS has outlined how to go about flashing/updating the BIOS of video cards. For the most part this is something 99.95% of the population would never need but there are a number of sites built around this “hobby” which can…
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X-bit labs continues its power draw measurements of modern day graphics cards. This time around they take a look at a NVIDIA based lineup of boards and compare the results with their ATI numbers. It would appear that both companies…
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X-bit labs gathered up a few tidbits on the upcoming ATI RV410 chipset which will probably make its way into X700 branded boards in the near future. The chip will be a slimmed down version of the R400 found in…
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InsaneTek has a look at the new video card cooling line from Artic Cooling. The new Silencer lineup covers most modern video cards in a wide variety of configurations and all boast better cooling potential than most stock heatsinks and…
Elite Bastards do their own thing with a copy of a stress test put together by Valve, makers of Half-Life 2, using their new Source graphics engine. The numbers are a but different than other comparisons floating around due the…
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Digital Reviews has the scoop on the PowerColor X800XT Platinum Limited Assassin Edition video card powered by ATI’s latest high end chip. The board looks like most other X800XT based boards except for its first person shooter bundle. A nice…
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Gamers Depot runs a few video cards through a benchmark using Half Life 2’s advanced graphics engine codenamed “Source”. Not to be outdone, Virtual Zone also tossed up another batch of performance numbers using the same engine. Here are their…
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Gamers-Depot has some performance figures up for ATI’s Radeon 9800 Mobility, a huge upgrade over its previous 9700 notebook video chipset. The 9800 offers some serious speed advances in the mobile arena turning laptops into viable gaming machines….
PCSTATS has a review of a PCI-Express video card for the budget concious. The MSI RX600XT-TD128 is built around the ATI Radeon x600 video core which has native support for the PCI-E interface. It won’t keep up with today’s top-end…
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Virtual Zone got its hands on a copy of Counter-Strike: Source and benchmarked it on a variety of video cards. CS: Source is, in a nutshell, Counter-Strike ported over to the Source engine which Half-Life 2 will run on. Seeing…
