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by Rafael Hernandez on December 21, 2006 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews has tested a pair of XFX GeForce 8800 GTX in an SLI setup. Their monster test rig uses AMD’s X2 4800+ CPU instead of the usual Intel Core 2 offerings. Incredible performance when all sorts of image quality…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 20, 2006 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a look at the PowerColor X1950 Pro Extreme graphics card. The board sports the solid mid-range graphics chip from ATI and improves on the reference design with an Arctic Cooling GPU cooler. A nice quiet card for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 19, 2006 · 0 comments

HardwareLogic has a look at the eVGA NVidia 680i SLI motherboard. The 680i is, currently, Nvidia’s top chipset on the Intel side of things and sports a wide array of enthusiast features designed to make it the perfect compliment to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 18, 2006 · 0 comments

TweakTown runs the latest ATI Catalyst 6.12 drivers through their batch of Radeon cards trying to scope out performance improvements. The release notes for the drivers didn’t mention much in the way of performance improvements but these new drivers kick…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 14, 2006 · 0 comments

AMD has launched its latest set of drivers for the Radeon series of graphics cards. The update brings the drivers up to version 6.12 and includes quite a few bug fixes but no real mention of speed improvements in specific…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 12, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the MSI mPC 51PV small form factor PC. The system comes in with support for AMD’s AM2 socket CPUs courtesy of the Nvidia GeForce 6150 chipset which just so happens to feature an…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 11, 2006 · 0 comments

Virtual Hideout has a look at the Sapphire Ultimate X1950PRO graphics card. Their particular thoughts on “ultimate” lend itself to a snazzy pre-installed Zalman GPU cooler, which allows for lower temperatures and a quieter card, and a rather meager bundle…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 11, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the performance of various graphics cards when playing back a Blu-ray movie. A certain 8 series card makes a good case for the performance crown in this test with older products trailing it by quite…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 7, 2006 · 0 comments

TechSpot has a look at the ATI Radeon X1650XT graphics card and pits it against the Nvidia GeForce 7600GT. It’s a battle at the low-end to mid-range with the 7600GT putting up a nice effort but shader heavy titles fall…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 7, 2006 · 0 comments

VR-Zone had a bit of an accident with a Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX graphics card while attempting to push its clock rates using dry ice to cool it down. Their loss means a gain for the enthusiast crowd that now knows…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 5, 2006 · 0 comments

Tweaknews has a look at the Zalman FATAL1TY FC-ZV9 video card cooler. Heat pipes and a ton of fins are this cooler’s key to success and its sleek all nickel plated look adds a bit of flair. A great option…

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