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by Rafael Hernandez on May 19, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech tested out their hunch on a few budgets graphics boards and different memory timings. ATI’s HyperMemory and Nvidia’s TurboCache both rely on PCI Express’ quicker access to the system memory in order to support the meager, or non-existent, memory…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 13, 2005 · 0 comments

Gaming Nexus has a review of ATI’s All-In-Wonder X800 XT graphics card. ATI’s All-In-Wonder line has been very popular due to its built-in TV/FM tuner and good video performance in one card. This latest version brings it up to today’s…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 12, 2005 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D has a look at the Sapphire Radeon X800 XL Ultimate PCI Express graphics card. The board is based on ATI’s popular mid-range chip which balances good performance and a reasonable price-tag. A great card for playing today’s popular titles….

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 9, 2005 · 0 comments

BIOS has a review of Dell’s gaming oriented XPS Gen 2 laptop computer. The massive notebook sports an Intel Pentium M CPU paired with a Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 Ultra graphics chip. The included, massive, 17″ widescreen LCD makes it…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 6, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has a review of the GeCube X800XLA-VIVO. The board is ATI’s popular PCI-Express X800XL GPU paired with an AGP adapter chip. A good mid-range choice for the AGP crowd who don’t want to move on to the PCI-E route…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 5, 2005 · 0 comments

BeyondD ran some tests on the Sapphire Hybrid Radeon X800 XL 512MB graphics card. ATI’s recent launch of 512MB boards means its partners have similar products up their sleave. The board has a cooler similar to that of the high-end…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 4, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the 512MB version of ATI’s X800XL graphics card. The extra memory is tacked on for those games that require quite a bit more storage for game texture and shader information and higher resolutions…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 3, 2005 · 0 comments

Techniz has a look at the Vantec Iceberq 5 graphics card cooler. The heatsink and fan combo is designed to replace the stock cooling on many video cards which often perform poorly and make a whole lot of noise while…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 25, 2005 · 0 comments

techPowerUp! has a look at an updated version of the Arctic Cooling ATI Silencer 4. The #4 cooler in the company’s lineup fits most of ATI’s (and friends) Radeon x800(pro/xt/xtpe/se) graphics cards. The cooler has had some minor modifications that…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 24, 2005 · 0 comments

DriverHeaven has a look at ATI’s AGP version of their Radeon X850XT PE graphics card. They compare the board to the highly capable GeForce 6800 Ultra in a number of games showing its prowess in many of them as well…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 21, 2005 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a look at the S3 GammaChrome S18 Pro GPU. The card they tested had an, unfortunately, early set of drivers which made it difficult on them to compare it against other graphics boards but it looks like…

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