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by Rafael Hernandez on June 15, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a review of the multimedia friendly ATI All-in-Wonder X800 XT graphics card. The board packs in a TV/FM Tuner and video-in/video-out with a Radeon X800 XT graphics chip all on the same card. It’s one of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZone got their hands on the Asus EN6800GT dual GPU graphics card. The board is one long device packing in the two Nvidia GeForce 6800GTs along with 512MB of memory, 256MB of it for each chip. A massive card which…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 9, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at ATI’s memory packed Radeon X800 XL 512MB. The increase in RAM will give it a bit of an advantage when titles sporting huge amounts of scene data show up but, so far, current titles see…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 7, 2005 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D has a look at the Gigabyte Silent-Pipe Radeon X800 XL graphics card. One of the more popular mid-range cards gets the silent treatment merging a whole lot of aluminum and heatpipes ensuring quiet operation. A good choice for its…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 6, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a short write-up on ATI’s latest mobile graphics chip, the Mobility Radeon X800 XT. It’s geared for powerhouse DTRs that care more about performance than battery life. Very impressive numbers put up by the chip, equalling those of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 3, 2005 · 0 comments

Viper Lair has a review of the HIS X850XT IceQ II Turbo graphics card. HIS has a knack for slapping on a great cooler, which outperforms many of the other standard designs, this time they strap it to the AGP…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 31, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has got the details on how ATI’s CrossFire technology works. The multiple GPU system, somewhat similar to Nvidia’s SLI, is capable of pairing dissimilar cards from in their respective X850/X800 lines for increased performance. It looks like a good…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 26, 2005 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has info ripped from powerpoint slides covering ATI’s next generation graphics chip. Code-named “R520” the new GPU will be capable of impressive 3D performance as well as accelerated high definition video playback which is currently quite taxing to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 25, 2005 · 0 comments

LegionHardware has a look at the Chaintech AE6800 Apogee graphics card. The board’s Nvidia GeForce 6800 GPU sits firmly in the mid-range of the market mixing good performance at reasonable prices but Chaintech has strapped on a high quality cooler…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 20, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at what might be the AGP slot’s last hurrah. ATI’s Rialto PCI Express to AGP chip has allowed it to bring some formerly PCI-E only boards over. TR has a look at the X800…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 20, 2005 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has the details on Sapphire’s plan to use a supposed Liquid Metal cooler on a graphics board. The technology is said to improve heat transfer from the graphics chip allowing it to run cooler and at lower noise…

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