Radeon

by Rafael Hernandez on August 29, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a look at the SAPPHIRE PURE Innovation A9RX480 motherboard. The board makes fine usage of ATI’s Radeon XPRESS 200P chipset and has been engineered with the constant tinkerers in mind. A nice alternative to DFI and Abit but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 29, 2005 · 0 comments

MVKTech has a look at the HIS X800 GT IceQ II Turbo graphics card. The board matches up fairly well with Nvidia’s 6600GT chipset, putting it in the low-mid range performance category, which is still the best bang for the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 22, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the Sapphire PI-A9RX480 motherboard. Sapphire has a good thing going with their ATI Radeon line of graphics boards so they’ve decided to branch out into the performance motherboard market. Quite the looker and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 18, 2005 · 0 comments

AMDZone has a look at the Sapphire Radeon X550 graphics card. It’s a typical low-mid range GPU boasting the same great image quality of the other Xx00 cards but it’s quite a bit slower. A nice, inexpensive, option if you…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 29, 2005 · 0 comments

LinuxHardware has a review of the Connect3D Radeon X800. They carried out their tests on, obviously, their favorite flavor of Linux operating system and with the poor state of ATI drivers things were not very pretty compared to its Nvidia…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 28, 2005 · 0 comments

TrustedReviews has a look at the Samsung X50 HWM 760 notebook computer. The laptop sports a seriously slim profile for its feature set which, on their test model, includes everyone’s favorite Intel Pentium M CPU running at 2GHz, ATI Mobility…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 20, 2005 · 0 comments

Elite Bastards take some time to test out ATI’s latest Catalyst drivers for the Radeon lineup of graphics boards. The drivers boast large performance improvement claims for graphics boards with 128MB, or less, of on-board memory. A nice boost in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 20, 2005 · 0 comments

ViperLair has a look at the HIS X800XL IceQ Turbo graphics card. The board has been reviewed several times over but it is still one of the better cards out there that ships with a cooling system that’s both quiet…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 14, 2005 · 0 comments

As is the norm ATI has released the latest version of its Catalyst driver suite for their Radeon line of graphics chips. The new drivers claim some major performance improvements on cards that have 128MB or less video memory on…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 12, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a look at PowerColor’s RADEON X800XL 512MB graphics card. The board is strapped with a large amount of fast memory which may be useful in future games that add a ton of textures and content on the screen…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2005 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a look at the integrated graphics performance of ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200 and Intel’s GMA900 graphics cores. A growing number of systems are relying on integrated graphics which can handle the usual dekstop tasks just fine but…

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