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by Rafael Hernandez on February 2, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a review of the BFG GeForce 7800 GS AGP graphics board. There haven’t been many additions to the AGP graphics card landscape over the past year, what with every company busy pushing its customers along to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 2, 2006 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has tested out how much power modern graphics cards are sucking down. The power draw has steadily been increasing in GPU land, requiring much more capable power supplies. A nice set of charts but feature sets and performance,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 1, 2006 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews takes a closer look at the ATI Radeon X1900 graphics chip. The cards are their current top-end product so they saw it fit to compare it in CrossFire form with Nvidia’s 7800GTX 512 in SLI mode. Quite a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 27, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at four different Nvidia GeForce 6800GS based graphics cards. The chip has been a surprising performer at the mid-range to low-end segment it sits at and it provides some inexpensive SLI options to the gamer on…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 26, 2006 · 0 comments

GaemPC has their own take on Sapphires’s latest top-of-the-heap Radeon X1900XT/XTX. The ATI graphics chips have had some behind the scenes remodeling done that makes them even more shader friendly, perfect for the new batch of gaming titles on the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 25, 2006 · 0 comments

ViperLair has a review of the Club-3D 7800GT graphics card. The latest and greatest from the top chip makers is nice to look at but the 7800GT line has been a solid performer and with the recent pricing on them…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 25, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has found a new tool to test the latest and greatest graphics card, Egosoft’s X3:Reunion rolling demo. The space sim is heavy on shaders and the like boasting impressive graphics that have, so far, slowed down even the beefiest…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 24, 2006 · 0 comments

ATI kept on track with the refresh part for their X1800 lineup, despite its delay, and today they’ve launched their X1900 graphics chip. The new chip doesn’t have many improvements in fillrate over the X1800 but it does bump up…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 18, 2006 · 0 comments

Nvidia has launched a new chipset named the GeForce 7300 GS. The new chip features a good chunk of the technology found in the rest of the 7000 series lineup but it’s targeted at the low-end of the market so…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 12, 2006 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a look at the Gigabyte Radeon X1600XT Silent-Pipe II graphics card. The cooler is they key selling point on this board but without its own dedicated fan you’ll need to have some dedicated airflow cooling this one…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 9, 2006 · 0 comments

The Inquirer has the details on a Sapphire X1600Pro graphics card that comes equipped with an HDMI interface. The HDMI link carries digital video and audio signals which the card has covered with its own dedicated audio chip. An interesting…

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