video card

by Rafael Hernandez on July 2, 2007 · 0 comments

Tweaknews has a review of the Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro AGP graphics card. The AGP slot, once forecast as dead, seems to get a bit of attention every once in a while due to the still viable setups that are…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 20, 2007 · 0 comments

HardwareCanucks has a look at the BFG Nvidia GeForce 8600GTS and 8600GT OC graphics cards. The stock clock rates are decent enough but BFG enjoys adding a bit of extra value by modestly bumping them up. Good performers, especially if…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 2, 2007 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics card. The company has taken the powerful GTX version and upped to speed on its memory and GPU. What you get, for the $850 pricetag, is rather…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2007 · 0 comments

techPowerUp! has a look at the Zotac GeForce 8500 GT graphics card. It sports Nividia’s latest low-end chip bringing DirectX 10 support and some welcome high-def video features. A nice enough card but don’t expect it to be much faster…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2007 · 0 comments

TweakTown has a look at the BFG Tech GeForce 8600GTS OC graphics card. It sports the first mid-range focused DirectX 10 capable GPU with a decent factory overclock from the standard settings. A decent enough performer but it has a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 19, 2007 · 0 comments

TweakTown has a look at the GigaByte and XFX versions of the GeForce 8600GT graphics cards. The mid-range DirectX 10 capable cards sport some advanced filtering and video playback features but they lack a bit of performance in existing DX9…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 17, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Nvidia GeForce 8500 and 8600 GPUs. The chips are/will be the first mid-range DX10 capable GPUs to hit the market. Its performance isn’t all that great compared to the last generation of mid-range products…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 16, 2007 · 0 comments

TweakTown has a look at the XFX GeForce 7600GT Fatal1ty in an SLI configuration. The cards feature passive cooling for that extra quiet gaming experience, although you will wnt proper airflow to keep them from overheating in such a tight…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 10, 2007 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a look at the 320MB and 640MB versions of the Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS based cards. It’s not always clear cut how they’ll perform given how card manufacturers pick random clocks speeds to ship them at but their…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 3, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech started out with a simple plan of attempting to get CableCard support going under Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system only to run into issues along the way. The hardware/software itself is fine but when the cable companies get involved…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 3, 2007 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a look at the Inno3D GeForce 7950 GT i-Chill graphics card. They took the mid-range graphics chip, limited it to 256MB of memory and added an impressive looking passive cooler to the mix for that silent operation approach….

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