Radeon

by Rafael Hernandez on January 24, 2006 · 0 comments

ATI kept on track with the refresh part for their X1800 lineup, despite its delay, and today they’ve launched their X1900 graphics chip. The new chip doesn’t have many improvements in fillrate over the X1800 but it does bump up…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 12, 2006 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a look at the Gigabyte Radeon X1600XT Silent-Pipe II graphics card. The cooler is they key selling point on this board but without its own dedicated fan you’ll need to have some dedicated airflow cooling this one…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 5, 2006 · 0 comments

Laptop Logic has a review of the Asus A7G notebook PC. The laptop pairs the usual Intel Pentium M CPU with a large 17″ widescreen display and ATI’s Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics chip. A competent portable gaming machine, and, its…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 4, 2006 · 0 comments

GamePC takes a look at ATI’s Radeon X1800 Crossfire master card. The board makes multi-GPU gaming goodness possible on ATI’s Crossfire motherboards. There’s a little ways to go to catch up with Nvidia but it looks like a much smoother…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 21, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has a look at the Asus A8R-MVP CrossFire capable motherboard. The board uses ATI’s Radeon XPress 200 chipset and ULi M1575 southbridge that doesn’t exhibit those pesky USB2 performance issues and, as a whole, manages to keep up with…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 19, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZoom has a look at the Sapphire Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition graphics board and Pure CrossFire Advantage motherboard. The motherboard is, of course, CrossFire capable and their review makes it seem like it also supports Nvidia’s SLI while the CrossFire…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 12, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has tested the ATI Radeon X1800XL and XT cards in CrossFire mode. ATI’s multi-gpu setup is quite a bit different than Nvidia’s and quite a bit late as well but the numbers are generally good. A nice…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 8, 2005 · 0 comments

bit-tech has pit the ATI Radeon X1300 Pro against Nvidia’s GeForce 6600 DDR2. These low end boards sport many advanced features although the latest and greatest titles won’t be running at their best on them. Interesting test methods they use…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 7, 2005 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a look at the ATI X1600 Mobility Radeon graphics chip. They go one further by comparing it against a number of desktop cards where it showed promising results in today’s games but, as with most mobile video…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 6, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has an early look at ATI’s Mobility Radeon X1600 in a well equipped Asus A7G notebook. It’s been a bit slow in coming with Nvidia next-gen GPUs in the notebook space already but it does well in the mobile…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 5, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC pits ATI’s Radeon X1800XT against Nvidia’s 7800GTX 512MB. The cards are the current top end from each company so you can expect inanse performance and an even crazier price-tag. A good showing from both cards but Nvidia’s SLI option…

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