Unique Hardware has published a review on the Leadtek WinFast A400 Ultra TDH. After the impressive 5950 video card it's hard to think of a card that can rival or even crush those scores... Looks like it has been done! What is it, the 6950 series? Nope, the 6800 series of video cards...
We have been notified about the long awaited update of the Radeon BIOS Tuner (RaBiT) software. This tool allows users to fine tune the ATI Radeon BIOS. RaBiT is the original and definitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest ATI graphics cards, and which is updated on regular basis. RaBiT allows graphics card enthusiasts, or the hardcore overclockers to have full control over advanced features and functionality found on firmware of supporting cards. Allowing the users to gain some extra performance, enable certain hidden features, tweak memory latencies, provide extensive information and/or get extra stability on their ATI based graphics accelerators.
The Crucible has send word about their Albatron Trinity GeForce PCX5750 Review. PCI Express is slowly beginning to make it's way into the market. Sooner or later PCI Express will completely replace both AGP and PCI slots on many motherboards. So if there are no AGP slots what are we going to plug out video cards into?
We have been notified about the long awaited update of the Radeon BIOS Tuner (RaBiT) software. This tool allows users to fine tune the ATI Radeon BIOS. RaBiT is the original and definitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest ATI graphics cards, and which is updated on regular basis. RaBiT allows graphics card enthusiasts, or the hardcore overclockers to have full control over advanced features and functionality found on firmware of supporting cards. Allowing the users to gain some extra performance, enable certain hidden features, tweak memory latencies, provide extensive information and/or get extra stability on their ATI based graphics accelerators.
DNA-Drivers Development is
running well, as they released again a new version of their well known DNA
Drivers. This new version is based entirely on the ATI Catalyst Beta 8.07
Drivers.
Rage3D has published their Sapphire
Radeon X800XT Review. Sapphire, along with other Add-In-Board partners, has been
clamoring for an adequate supply of 16-pipeline R420 cores since it was first
introduced last spring. Even now supply is still tight and many AIBs have grown
increasingly frustrated with not being able to meet consumer demand for their
cards. With this ever increasing and incessant demand for X800XT cores, ATI has begun qualifying 16-pipeline
R420 cores at lower clock speeds and has started selling them to AIBs to be sold
as X800XT Radeons. While the plan was always to have an X800XT card on the
market, it was at first intended to be exclusive to the PCI-Express architecture
but these new X800XT Radeons are now available for both PCI-Express and AGP
architectures.
And a new review has also been publishid on the Asus Radeon AX800XT by DriverHeaven. When you think of Asus, the word "quality" immediately comes to mind, and this is just reaffirmed with today's newest review piece, their new PCI express top of the range graphics card the Asus Radeon AEX800XT. There isn't much we haven't covered before with regards to the X800XT series of cards.
OCTools has published a review on the nVIDIA GeForce 6800GT 256MB PCI Express. The arrival of PCI Express to the graphics scene has caused quite a stir to the enthusiast community. Here we have a new technology that is destined to replace the long established AGP and PCI. What exactly is PCI Express and what's so promising about it?
Gamers-Depot has send
word about their review on the Albatron GeForce 6800GT. With so many choices of add-in board
makers producing nVidia-based
cards, it can be a real whirlwind when deciding which one to go with.
Taiwan-based Albatron is
looking to get your attention with its offerings by selling them at competitive
pricing and bundles.
Ray Adams has release a new version of his popular ATI Tray Tools. ATI Tray Tools is a small utility that allows instant access to options and settings. The Tool is displayed in the Windows Tray and can easily be accessed via that way.
Despite what nVidia told us
before, the GeForce 6800LE will be a retail card. When we wrote about this last
July, nVidia immediately
picked up the blower to inform us that this won't happen. Well, it has
happened.
nVidia has a new secret steed for the graphics race and this time it clippity-clops about under the NV41 codename. I have to admit that people haven't talked much about this chip, even though we pre-announced it for nVidia quite some time ago.
And as well Hexus has published a new review, this time they have reviewed a BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra Overclocked. nVidia, if pushed hard enough, will readily admit that its premier NV30 cards were something of a letdown. They promised much but didn't deliver the kind of performance that pre-launch hype had suggested. Stung by generally unfavourable press sentiments a lukewarm response from enthusiasts, nVidia promised that its next iteration of graphics cards would right all the NV30's wrongs.
Overclockers NZ has made a comparison on the nVidia FX5900 PCI-E vs AGP. Back in June 2004, Intel started to push for "future technologies" with the introduction of 915/925 chipsets, LGA775 socket, DDR2 memory and PCI Express (PCI-E) bus. Out of those, PCI-E x16 attracted quite a bit of attention, as it offers a much higher bandwidth than what AGP can offer (4.2GB/s vs 2.4GB/s). In addition, PCI-E is a bus not a port, thus we can use more than one graphic card in a system, e.g. nVidia's Scalable Link Interface (SLI) found on the 6800X and 6600GT.
Gainward "Golden Sample" Ultra/1800PCX TV-DVI PCX5900 in the house. Review coming soon!
Thats right folks, MVKTech.net is hard at work putting this PCX5900 through
its pace's and we will give you a heads up on its performance and
characteristics. Stay Tuned!
Got|Apex has published a
review on the Sapphire Radeon X800 XT. It seems odd, but it's pretty
common. Videocard companies will release products very similar to each other,
with not a lot in the way of performance separating them. But when you deal in
measurements of nanometers, you sometimes end up with a perfectly good core that
just isn't quite what you wanted.
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.
Unika 8800GTS PCIe 512MB - Rev 01
We have been notified about the long awaited update of the Radeon BIOS Tuner (RaBiT) software. This tool allows users to fine tune the ATI Radeon BIOS. RaBiT is the original and definitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest ATI graphics cards, and which is updated on regular basis. RaBiT allows graphics card enthusiasts, or the hardcore overclockers to have full control over advanced features and functionality found on firmware of supporting cards. Allowing the users to gain some extra performance, enable certain hidden features, tweak memory latencies, provide extensive information and/or get extra stability on their ATI based graphics accelerators.
