Elite Bastards do their own thing with a copy of a stress test put together by Valve, makers of Half-Life 2, using their new Source graphics engine. The numbers are a but different than other comparisons floating around due the…
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Digital Reviews has the scoop on the PowerColor X800XT Platinum Limited Assassin Edition video card powered by ATI’s latest high end chip. The board looks like most other X800XT based boards except for its first person shooter bundle. A nice…
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Gamers Depot runs a few video cards through a benchmark using Half Life 2’s advanced graphics engine codenamed “Source”. Not to be outdone, Virtual Zone also tossed up another batch of performance numbers using the same engine. Here are their…
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Gamers-Depot has some performance figures up for ATI’s Radeon 9800 Mobility, a huge upgrade over its previous 9700 notebook video chipset. The 9800 offers some serious speed advances in the mobile arena turning laptops into viable gaming machines….
PCSTATS has a review of a PCI-Express video card for the budget concious. The MSI RX600XT-TD128 is built around the ATI Radeon x600 video core which has native support for the PCI-E interface. It won’t keep up with today’s top-end…
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Virtual Zone got its hands on a copy of Counter-Strike: Source and benchmarked it on a variety of video cards. CS: Source is, in a nutshell, Counter-Strike ported over to the Source engine which Half-Life 2 will run on. Seeing…
AnandTech has a preview of an interesting motherboard which brings together Intel’s new Socket 775 processors with their previous generation 865PE chipset. The Soltek SL-865Pro-775 allows people to salvage their “old” DDR memory and AGP video cards and upgrade to…
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ATI and VIA chose this fine day to launch some driver updates. ATI has launched the Catalyst 4.8 drivers for its line of video cards as well as a new version of its MultiMedia Center, and VIA has the Hyperion…
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The Tech Report seems to enjoy a good benchmarking session so they tested the heavily reviewed DOOM3, from id Software, against video cards that are sure to be found in alot of PCs, in other words no x800s or 6800s…
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AnandTech took a look at the high end Voodoo Envy M:860 desktop replacement notebook. The system packs in a huge number of high performance features, such as an Athlon 64, DVD burner, and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, much to…
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Bjorn3D has some news from QuakeCon currently taking place in the Lone Star State. The big news, of course, at the show, is DOOM3 with everything DOOM centric being peddled and covered at the show but some interesting hardware has…
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