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by Rafael Hernandez on November 29, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report tested out all forms of SLI setups using NVIDIA GeForce 6600 and 6800 video cards strapped to an Asus A8N-SLI motherboard designed for the AMD Athlon 64/FX. It’s really, really fast, as is to be expected, but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a review of the Gainward GeForce 6800 GT Ultra/2400 Golden Sample (uh, yeah) video card. The card is no ordinary 6800 GT, this one is topped off with a beefy cooling system and a bit of extra headroom…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 24, 2004 · 0 comments

OCNZ has a look at the Gigabyte GV-RX30128D X300 video card which sports a PCI-Express interface. The ATI Radeon X300 chip is about as low as you can go nowadays for entry level graphics, besides integrated graphics solutions. Its performance…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 23, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP does their thing with a pair of NVIDIA GeForce 6600GTs and 6800GTs (along with other boards for comparisons sake) on an SLI capable nForce4 motherboard. The article touches on compatibility concerns between different card makers and general setup of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 23, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has the details on the latest mobile graphic chipsets from ATI. The Mobility Radeon X300 and X800 chips make use of the company’s latest chip technology sporting a slimmed down feature set in order to fit it into the…

Read more ATI Mobility Radeon X800/X300 Launched

by Rafael Hernandez on November 22, 2004 · 0 comments

The Inquirer has some supposed details for ATI’s product refresh parts using the Radeon X850 GPU. Usually such product refreshes have some redesigned elements in order to get better yields or clock rates out of the chips and sometimes fix…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 22, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has an interesting look at the details of NVIDIA’s SLI technology. Their multiple card rendering approach is not new to the market but few video chip builders have gone with a similar solution due to costs. Despite the sticker…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 22, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has tested the XFX GeForce 6800 GT board with a PCI Express interface. NVIDIA has finally shipped its NV45 core, previous versions of which happened to be AGP only, that kept the board out of the PCI-E market for…

Read more XFX GeForce 6800GT PCI-E Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on November 18, 2004 · 0 comments

The fine folks over at PC Perspective has a look at the performance of various video cards in Valve Software’s hot new FPS title Half-Life 2. The game performs very well on modern hardware with all sorts of high quality…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 18, 2004 · 0 comments

The fine folks over at HotHardware have come up with a review of the Sapphire Radeon X800 XT PCI Express based video card. The card puts up impressive numbers, as expected, in a variety of gaming titles and bundles in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 16, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a bit of fun testing NVIDIA’s GeForce 6600GT AGP graphics chip. So far there has been a large gap in both NVIDIA’s and ATI’s mid-range to low end AGP capable products based on their latest chips. These new…

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