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ASUS Extreme N6600GT Silencer 256MB (GeForce 6600 GT, PCIe) [Review, hardwarezone]
An unconventional cooler design that is completely silent meant that we gave the ASUS Extreme N6600GT Silencer 256MB more than a second glance. How will this radical design fare against the more ordinary GeForce 6600 GT cards? Read on to find out if this card can really silence the competition. Sun, 16 Oct, 2005 | 16 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual [Review, Hexus]
As an engineering showcase and just as a cool piece of
hardware, the Extreme N7800GT Dual presses all the right buttons. The
PCB design on its own is worth a separate article, the issues you have
when supplying power to two GPUs from a single power input and the
layout issues to overcome are fascinating in their own right and in
that respect, ASUS's engineers responsible for the card should be
proud. Sun, 16 Oct, 2005 | 10 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ATI boosts Doom 3 AA performance [News, Hexus]
The fix will shortly be rolled into CATALYST 5.11 according to
ATI sources and a beta drop of that driver will be made available for
testing in due course, before the final WHQL driver from Terry
Makedon's CATALYST team is made available for public download in
November. Sun, 16 Oct, 2005 | 12 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Gigabyte GeForce 7800 GT (GV-NX78T256V-B) Review [Review, Bjorn3d]
When NVIDIA introduced us to the 7 Series GPUs with its current flagship
GeForce 7800 GTX, we were quite impressed. Most people, though, aren't going to
buy flagship hardware, so they wait for the little brothers of the flagship.
Currently, the only 'little brother' released has been the 7800 GT.
A quick look at the specifications reveals that the 7800 GT is a slightly
crippled 7800 GTX, which actually is not a bad thing if you are a 7800 GT.
Although the GT has less power under the hood, it still performs quite well
when compared to the GTX. Follow along and keep reading to learn about the
first retail GT offering to hit our test benches - the Gigabyte GV-NX78T256V-
B. Sun, 16 Oct, 2005 | 17 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
PowerColor X800 GT Xtreme 256MB and X800 GT EVO Tide Water 256MB [Review, Hexus]
We've looked at a couple of PowerColor X800
GT cards and have come away with the feeling that whilst both offer
something new in the marketplace, the respective asking prices takes
away much of their shine. Novel, exciting products? Yes.
Value-for-money? Not quite. Sun, 16 Oct, 2005 | 9 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ABIT RX800 XL-256EDVIO and Fatal1ty X800 XL [Review, Beyond3d]
The Fatal1ty X800 XL is essentially a 512MB version of the standard ATI Radeon X800 XL but with a few additional features that we shall investigate in this review. Alongside this graphics card, we shall also be taking a look at Abit's RX800 XL-256EDVIO model - the rather cumbersome name slightly disguises the fact that this too is essentially a standard X800 XL but, like the Fatal1ty version, with extra functions. Thu, 13 Oct, 2005 | 8 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ASUS Extreme N7800 GT Dual World Exclusive first hands-on test [Preview, hexus]
ASUS didn't can the idea of two GPUs on a single board in SLI
mode, though. The recent release of NVIDIA G70 which powers the
GeForce 7800 GTX and 7800 GT SKUs has given ASUS something new to
work with. The G70 GPU, built on 110nm, is actually cooler and less
power hungry than NV45, despite a large hike in transistor count and
die area. Thu, 13 Oct, 2005 | 7 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Great Graphics, Better Price: XFX 7800 GT [Review, PCWorld]
When nVidia launched the GeForce 7800 GTX, several months ago, its stellar performance blew us away--but so did its scary $600 price. The latest nVidia chip is the $400 7800 GT, which features great performance for power users on a slightly tighter budget.
To make the 7800 GT, nVidia slowed down its 7800 GTX chip and turned off a few pipes. But card vendor XFX has sped things up by slightly overclocking its PCI Express-based GeForce 7800 GT board, allowing it to keep pace with a previously tested 7800 GTX reference card, and to easily outrun a high-end ATI Radeon X850 Platinum Edition card. Thu, 13 Oct, 2005 | 9 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
HIS X800GTO IceQ II Turbo 256MB [Review, overclockersonline]
'the best price/performance card ever built' How can you argue with
that statement after reading this review? If you were not impressed by the
42% overclock of the GPU core or the 22% overclock of the memory, then
surely the temperature when running this ridiculously impressive overclock
under load thanks to the IceQ II cooling technology that HIS incorporates in
their X800GTO offering has you running out the door to buy it. In addition
to the overclocking capabilities of the HIS X800GTO, the pure performance of
this new chipset is just incredible. I was surprised going through the
benchmark results just how much of a difference there was compared to the
6600GT. Thu, 13 Oct, 2005 | 12 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ATI X1800XT [Preview, tbreak]
Unlike the 7800GTX from nVidia which is simply a more efficient and enhanced version of the
6800 series, the x1000 family of cards is based on a completely new architecture. The last time
ATI did this was with their 9700 series which went on to become the 9800 and then the x800 and
x850. Its also the first discreet GPU to be based on the 90nm process which gave ATI lots of
die space to work with. What all this means is that there is plenty of room for growth within
the x1000 series for the next few quarters. Mon, 10 Oct, 2005 | 9 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Gigabyte Radeon X800XL 512MB PCIe [Review, hardwarezoom]
Gigabyte GV-RX80L512V, powered by Radeon X800XL CPU, boosted with 512MB of GDDR3 memory
running at 256-bit. Featuring 16 pixel pipelines like the top-of-the-end X800XT, the X800XL is
a more affordable alternative.
If you want to play games at high resolution and FSAA without burning a big hole in your
pocket, the Gigabyte Radeon X800XL will be good enough to deliver smooth and low-noise games
play. Mon, 10 Oct, 2005 | 11 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Palit Radeon X550V+ 256MB (PCIe) [Review, hardwarezone]
Despite reviewing an overclocked Radeon X550 from GeCube not too long ago, we have received yet another similarly overclocked Radeon X550 from Palit. With almost identical clock speeds, the Palit Radeon X550V+ 256MB is evenly matched with the GeCube. Which card will emerge as the winner? Mon, 10 Oct, 2005 | 25 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ATI Explains Their Warranty Reduction [Article, legitreviews]
ATI silently lowered its warranty from three years down to a single year on
the majority of their desktop graphics cards, which has created some upset and
confused consumers. The warranty change was found by consumers who visited the
Warranty Service and Repair page on ATI's website. Cutting warranties is
nothing new as many will recall... Fri, 07 Oct, 2005 | 9 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ATI Radeon X1800 XT Preview [Preview, Hexus]
The performance - where we see massive gains in F.E.A.R.,
sizable improvements in Far Cry and Splinter Cell: CT, and consistent
CPU-bound performance to match 7800 GTX in mostly everything else - is
undoubtedly mighty. Combine that with the image quality improvements
and output connectivity available from the X1800 XT in terms of
Avivo, the 6x AA carried over from R480 now with less performance
hit, adaptive AA for improving alpha textures and rotation invariant
anistropic texture filtering for basic excellent texture IQ, and you
have a compelling consumer graphics product that almost demands you
purchase it as soon as possible. ATI's considerable investment in a
clockable new architecture on 90nm low-k has certainly paid off,
despite well documented delays. Well worth the wait. Fri, 07 Oct, 2005 | 9 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Leadtek PX7800 GTX TDH MyVIVO Extreme [Review, hardcoreware]
The 7800GTX has traditionally been a single slot solution, but Leadtek felt that the higher speeds of the card warranted a better HSF and thus they decided to create a dual slot solution that would offer a larger fan with a lower RPM. Those of you in the 3d graphics world will recognize this as the heatsink that comes on the Nvidia Quadro line of cards. Intended for the workstation world, those cards costs thousands of dollars and thus, ensuring that the cards keep working is of the utmost importance. For retail consumers of this card, that means that one need never worry about the cooling performance of their card. The added benefit of course is this VSF will be quieter than the already quiet (for a stock VSF fan) 7800GTX. Fri, 07 Oct, 2005 | 9 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
NVIDIA Quietly Intros GeForce 6800 XT [News, xbitlabs]
Following ATI Technologies, NVIDIA Corp. has quietly rolled-out its new product targeting mainstream markets. Just like in the case of the GeForce 6800 LE, the company did not make any announcements on the matter, but just calmly let the partners start selling the new component called the GeForce 6800 XT.
General specifications of the GeForce 6800 XT resemble those of the GeForce 6800 LE, but the main difference is that the former is based on the code-named NV42 graphics processing unit (GPU) made using 110nm process technology at TSMC, whereas the latter may utilize NV40 or other chips. The model 6800 XT has 8 pixel and 4 vertex pipelines, the chip should be clocked at 325MHz, whereas memory should operate at 700MHz. Fri, 07 Oct, 2005 | 18 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
PowerColor Radeon X850 Pro 256MiB [Review, Hexus]
Our benchmarking has shown that PowerColor's X850 Pro can
stand fast against a 6800GT, results swaying one way or the other
depending on the graphics engine in use. Pricing of the two products
is close, so deciding whether the PowerColor X850 Pro is worth the
purchase must boil down to other considerations. Fri, 07 Oct, 2005 | 14 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
PowerColor X800 GT EVO Liquid Cooled [Review, Bjorn3D]
Today we are looking at something special from PowerColor. Something
overclockers will drool at. What if I told you we have a card equipped with its
own liquid cooling system? That's right, it's the first card ever to be coupled
with Thermaltake's TideWater system. No other AIB used this type of solution
before. The card I'm referring to is PowerColor X800 GT EVO based on R480. Let
me tell you, it rocks like crazy in our system! Don't mistake it with
Mitsubishi Lancer EVO, although I have to say video chipzillas and vendors are
using more and more fancy names to attract customers. Fri, 07 Oct, 2005 | 11 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
X1000 chips from ATI [Preview, bjorn3d]
After 2 days with ATI at Ibiza it is now time for us to share our impressions
about the new chips from ATI, the X1000 series.
We've written together an articel with info about the chips and even more
important lots of benchmarks made with both the X1800XT and the X1800Xl where
we compare it to both GeForce 7800GTX, GeForce 7800GT and the X850XT and
X800XL. Fri, 07 Oct, 2005 | 7 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ATI X1800, X1600, X1300 (R5XX) Pricing Revelation [News, Hexus]
R520 lands next week, but how much will it set you back if you want
one at launch? We've got details on the pricing of R520 and its
brethren across the X1xx range. Tue, 04 Oct, 2005 | 12 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
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