AnandTech has a preview of an interesting motherboard which brings together Intel’s new Socket 775 processors with their previous generation 865PE chipset. The Soltek SL-865Pro-775 allows people to salvage their “old” DDR memory and AGP video cards and upgrade to…
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ATI and VIA chose this fine day to launch some driver updates. ATI has launched the Catalyst 4.8 drivers for its line of video cards as well as a new version of its MultiMedia Center, and VIA has the Hyperion…
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The Tech Report seems to enjoy a good benchmarking session so they tested the heavily reviewed DOOM3, from id Software, against video cards that are sure to be found in alot of PCs, in other words no x800s or 6800s…
Read more DOOM3 Performance Compared (Again)
Bjorn3D has some news from QuakeCon currently taking place in the Lone Star State. The big news, of course, at the show, is DOOM3 with everything DOOM centric being peddled and covered at the show but some interesting hardware has…
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The Tech Report has quite a few details on the NVIDIA NV43 graphics chipset which wil debut in GeForce 6600 labeled boards in the very near future. The chip is very similar to their current high-end offerings with a slimmed…
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Digital Daily has a look at the ABIT RX600XT-PCIE card based on ATI’s midrange chip that goes by the same name. ATI worked hard to get native support for PCI Express into its next generation designs but does it give…
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Hexus.net has a review of AOpen’s Aeolus GeForce 6800 GT video card. The GT chip series has so far shown the best price:performance ratio in NVIDIA’s line up sporting all 16 fully functional texturing pipes just like its bigger brother…
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The Tech Report grabbed five of the newest, high performance video cards based on NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 chipsets and had a go at some gaming benchmarks. The whole 6800 line is represented from the “lowly” non-badged to the GT and…
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GamePC has another fine article, this time they compare the performance of PCI Express versions of mid-range chips from both NVIDIA and ATI against their older AGP cousins. Decent performance out of the boards though a revisit would be great…
No that’s not a typo. ASUS marketing folk thought it would be a great plan to name an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 powered video card the V9999 Gamer Edition. Naming issues aside it’s a very potent card and should handle all…
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HardOCP got in more than a little “play” time with id Software’s upcoming First Person Shooter DOOM3. Kyle and company tested 14 or so systems loaded with all sorts of video cards to measure performance in the game. They also…
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