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by Rafael Hernandez on August 12, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has quite a few details on the NVIDIA NV43 graphics chipset which wil debut in GeForce 6600 labeled boards in the very near future. The chip is very similar to their current high-end offerings with a slimmed…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Digital Daily has a look at the ABIT RX600XT-PCIE card based on ATI’s midrange chip that goes by the same name. ATI worked hard to get native support for PCI Express into its next generation designs but does it give…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a review of AOpen’s Aeolus GeForce 6800 GT video card. The GT chip series has so far shown the best price:performance ratio in NVIDIA’s line up sporting all 16 fully functional texturing pipes just like its bigger brother…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 9, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report grabbed five of the newest, high performance video cards based on NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 chipsets and had a go at some gaming benchmarks. The whole 6800 line is represented from the “lowly” non-badged to the GT and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 2, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has another fine article, this time they compare the performance of PCI Express versions of mid-range chips from both NVIDIA and ATI against their older AGP cousins. Decent performance out of the boards though a revisit would be great…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 1, 2004 · 0 comments

No that’s not a typo. ASUS marketing folk thought it would be a great plan to name an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 powered video card the V9999 Gamer Edition. Naming issues aside it’s a very potent card and should handle all…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 29, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP got in more than a little “play” time with id Software’s upcoming First Person Shooter DOOM3. Kyle and company tested 14 or so systems loaded with all sorts of video cards to measure performance in the game. They also…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 29, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs takes the initiative and tries to figure out just how much power modern day video cards are pulling down. This time they take a stab at ATI’s lineup. Considering the huge number of transistors companies currently pack into…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Gamers Depot seem to have the first crack at a new chipset from ATI for notebook and other portable applications. The Mobility Radeon 9800 is a sizable upgrade over previous generations with features such as a 256-bit wide memory interface…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Microsoft has launched the DirectX 9.0c package, usually reserved for developers to include with their products, but freely available to the meer mortals out there. It supposedly contains support for some of the ATI Radeon x800 and NVIDIA 6800’s advanced…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 25, 2004 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D found themselves at the North American unveiling of the SLI graphics system NVIDIA has been working on for its GeForce 6800 line of video cards. Their peek at the technology includes video of a side by side performance comparison…

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