by Rafael Hernandez on July 29, 2004
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X-bit labs takes the initiative and tries to figure out just how much power modern day video cards are pulling down. This time they take a stab at ATI’s lineup. Considering the huge number of transistors companies currently pack into…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 27, 2004
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Gamers Depot seem to have the first crack at a new chipset from ATI for notebook and other portable applications. The Mobility Radeon 9800 is a sizable upgrade over previous generations with features such as a 256-bit wide memory interface…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 25, 2004
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Bjorn3D found themselves at the North American unveiling of the SLI graphics system NVIDIA has been working on for its GeForce 6800 line of video cards. Their peek at the technology includes video of a side by side performance comparison…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 23, 2004
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DigiTimes writes of Intel’s plans to bundle some of ATI’s video cards with their 915/925 based motherboards. The deal makes a lot of sense as it is somewhat difficult to find PCI Express based video cards even though the choice…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 22, 2004
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HardOCP had the first, published, shot at id Software’s highly anticipated DOOM3 with today’s top video cards and the best from the last generation. The early numbers are in NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 line of cards by quite a bit although…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 12, 2004
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X-bit labs tests out the integrated graphics core in the new Intel 915G northbridge for its latest batch of processors. Normally built-in graphics solutions have trailed dedicated cards by miles, and it still holds true when comparing high-end solutions, but…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 11, 2004
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AnandTech experimented with NVIDIA’s ForceWare Multimedia software for their extensive line of video cards from the old GeForce 256 to their current high end and integrated graphics such as those found in their nForce products. It’s a full on assault…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 8, 2004
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TweakTown does a bit of performance comparing with the new ATI Catalyst 4.7 drivers they recently released for their RADEON line of video cards. They toss in results for the previous 4.6 drivers and results are, for the most part,…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 6, 2004
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HardOCP has a look at the BFG Tech GeForce 6800U OC which comes out of the box sporting a beefed up clock rate giving it some of the highest performance numbers for a consumer available video card. All of this…
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by Rafael Hernandez on June 29, 2004
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HardOCP grabbed a whole bunch of today’s top hardware and tested the NVIDIA GeForce 6800Ultra and ATI Radeon X800Pro as well as the X800XT Platinum Edition comparing how much of a boost each card gains in performance when backed by…
Read more Video Card CPU Scaling
by Rafael Hernandez on June 22, 2004
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AnandTech has a peek at ATI’s HDTV Wonder TV Tuner card. The card comes in at a somewhat hefty $200 price-point but when you consider other makers were charging $300 or more for their boards it’s something of a “bargain”….
Read more ATI HDTV Wonder Reviewed