Bit-Tech has send word
about their HIS Excalibur 9550 VIVO Review. The Radeon 9550 was released
earlier this year to cope with a hole in the market, where ATI had no DirectX 9.0 graphics card
that could compete with nVidia's GeForce FX5200 Ultra. The GeForce FX5200 was almost
in a league of its own in the budget sector; at least until the arrival of the
Radeon 9550. Initially, it was only available in the Far East, but both
performance and sales figures proved that the demand for this board was likely
to scale across the globe.
OCW has posted a review on the XGI Volari V8 and the S3 Deltachrome S8 graphics card. It seems that we just can't get enough of performance and power these days. However, many of you out there are not necessarily looking for the highest performance available, but rather for value. Most people want a cost effective video card that performs well for their needs for moderate gaming. They could care less about competitive benchmarking scores.
A new review on the Gigabyte X800 Pro has been published on Dev Hardware. A new era is upon the gaming community, where some games finally utilize so much processing power that the need for a P4 3GHz+ or equivalent processor and $400 video card is actually somewhat sound. It feels like it was just yesterday when the 5950 Ultra, 9800XT, and lesser cards modified and overclocked to match the former, reigned supreme as the top graphics accelerators available. But as the latest title from id Software shows, greater power is required and both nVidia and ATI have answered.
Digit-Life has send word that they published their review on the ASUS V9999 256MB AGP Gamer Edition video card. Today we present an unusual article. Firstly, we'll examine an original ASUS creation, some hybrid of the GeForce 6800 series. Secondly, we are very curious to compare GeForce 6800 cards with various memory capacities, because this question is still a subject of much controversy among users and our readers. But at first let's lament once again over the fact that autumn has come, but the mass sales of various GeForce 6800 cards are not yet to be seen. Sales volumes are rising very slowly, mainly of GeForce 6800. To say nothing of the GeForce 6800 Ultra, this product is extremely rare.
The Inquirer has had many mails from people who want to buy GeForce 6800 Ultra cards in Europe and US but they simply could not find any of them, anywhere. We asked nVidia about this but nVidia said that it doesn't have any yield problems and that shops have GeForce 6800 Ultra in quantity. We neglected to check on GeForce 6800 Ultra retail availability as our gimlet-like eyes were fixed on the catastrophically hard to get X800XT PE card.
It's almost just a press edition but you can buy the Radeon X800XT PE. If you are very persistent, you can find quite few of them in German and US shops.
Hi-TechReviews send word of their ATI Radeon X600 Review. The Radeon X600 is not a complete revision of past cores but instead the Radeon X600 has the feature set and hardware support as the very popular Radeon 9600XT.
Rage3D has published a review
on the ATI Silencer 1, 2
& 3. After their release of the VGA Silencer, Arctic Cooling quickly
earned a respected reputation and became known as the manufacturer of one of the
most popular VGA coolers ever created. The unique design made the VGA Silencer
an excellent performer, but what really impressed most people was how whisper
quiet the unit was.
ATI Technologies, a leading developer of graphics and consumer electronics chips, is expected to roll-out its own bridge solution to allow PCI Express graphics processors to work in AGP systems. The maneuver will reproduce approach of arch-rival nVidia Corp. to set AGP graphics processing units to function with PCI Express x16 systems.
Today Guru3D has reviewed a PowerColor Radeon x800 Pro. The release of nVidia's 6800 series is a strong one and where ATI has been dominate for the past two years, it now has a serious competing product. The series x800 was developed under codename R420 and is lined up against the 6800 series and manages to compete very well. The x800 Pro. A VPU built on a 0.13-micron fabrication process with 160 Million transistors. The Pro product has 12 pixel pipelines opposed to its bigger XT brother with 16. Make no mistake, both products have the same core yet the Pro version has 4 pipes disabled. I already noticed some interesting soft and hardmods on the web to enable these extra 4 pipes. Basically make sure you have the VIVO version and you have a good chance of making it an XT for free. The VPU furthermore has two pixel shader units per pipeline, the pipes are organized into four groups of four, six vertex shader units, four-way crossbar memory controller and 450 MHz Graphics DDR-3 memory.
HotHardware sends word of their Asus V9999 Ultra Deluxe review. It seems that high-end graphics cards are always in the lime light upon the initial launch of a new graphics processor architecture from any of the major players. Although there's a limited number of potential consumers, relatively speaking, for these flagship enthusiat-class boards, they pave the way for their more modestly priced siblings, in terms of setting the standard for the base GPU architecture and how it performs versus the competition. We're sure many of you wouldn't think of dropping over $500 for an uber-class 3D card like a GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition or Radeon X800 XT Premium Edition, but there are some who will spare no expense, and these cream-of-the-crop video cards drive stakes in the ground of the fiercely competitive 3D graphics hardware landscape.
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