by Rafael Hernandez on May 25, 2005
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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 23, 2005
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Bjorn3D has a look at an AGP version of the Sapphire Radeon X850 XT PE VIVO. A fancy little bridge chip has made it possible for board manufacturers to bring ATI’s PCI Express GPUs into the hands of gamers with…
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 20, 2005
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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
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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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by Rafael Hernandez on May 19, 2005
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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 18, 2005
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ATI has released the latest version of its Catalyst driver suite for its Radeon line of graphics cards. The update brings it up to version 5.5 which offers a number of bug fixes. Windows 2k/XP/XP Pro x64 versions are available…
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 13, 2005
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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
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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
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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 5, 2005
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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
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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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