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by Rafael Hernandez on April 14, 2005 · 0 comments

bios has a look at the HP Pavilion zv5000 notebook computer. The laptop comes equipped with a potent AMD Athlon 3400+ CPU paired up with the somewhat ancient Nvidia GeForce4 440 Go GPU. Good performance for office apps, light-gaming and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 13, 2005 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech has a review of the MSI RS480M2-IL MicroATX motherboard. The board uses ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200 chipset which happens to have an on-board graphics unit making a preliminary upgrade to this board a little less costly. Another solid MSI…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 13, 2005 · 0 comments

Viper Lair tested the HIS X850XT PE IceQ II graphics card. The board has ATI’s current top performing GPU on board paired up with some speedy RAM and a cooling system that is an improvement over stock designs. Top performance…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 13, 2005 · 0 comments

PenStar Systems has a look at the Albatron GeForce TC 6200 graphics card. The board uses Nvidia’s GeForce 6200 graphics core and has 64MB of on-board memory and makes use of the “Turbo Cache” technology and uses system RAM to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 12, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC takes a pair of workstation oriented PNY QuadroFX 4400s and has some fun. The 512MB GeForce 6800 derived monsters do very well in the various 3D modelling applications (and the like) but it also makes for some interesting results…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 11, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the GigaByte GV-RX80256D graphics board. The card uses the plain-ol’ ATI Radeon X800 PCI Express chipset and a passive cooler using all sorts of heatpipes to keep it cool and silent. A nice looking board…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 11, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the Shuttle XPC ST20G5 SFF system. The mini-system features the ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipset for AMD Athlon 64s (s939) giving it some integrated, although slow, video capabilities. A sleek, space-saving design that…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 7, 2005 · 0 comments

ATI has released its latest set of Catalyst drivers for its Radeon line of graphics cards bringing the series up to version 5.4. The Windows drivers include a number of fixes and mark the release of the company’s first official…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 5, 2005 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a trio of HiS graphics card on their testbench today. The HiS X800 XL, X850 XT, and X850 XT PE represent the mid-range to high-end of ATI’s graphics chip offerings which HiS has prettied up with Artic Cooling…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 4, 2005 · 0 comments

MVKTech has a look at the PowerColor X800XL graphics card. The board uses ATI’s mid-range friendly GPU and ties in some video-in, video-out functionality as well as two DVI outputs. Great performance and a good bundle make it one of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 30, 2005 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has the details on Sparkle Computer’s upcoming Nvidia powered graphics card line. At the top is the company’s 6800Ultra video card with 512MB of speedy GDDR3 RAM on board. Its cost is rather high, hopefully other manufacturers have lower…

Read more Sparkle's GeForce 6 Graphics Card Lineup