Legion Hardware has reviewed the Gigabyte Radeon X300 graphic card. Unfortunately, Gigabyte is marketing their Radeon X300 product as a real low-end solution. The card features no active cooling what so ever, there is a moderate sized heatsink over the GPU which makes up the entire cooling setup of this Radeon X300 graphics card. Naturally when overclocking, any graphics card is going to generate more heat and therefore passive cooling just won’t do. However, this did not stop me from making a quick modification to the Gigabyte Radeon X300.
Seems we forgot the review at Bit-Tech on 3DMark05. 3DMark03 was something of a mixed bag on its release some 18 months ago - designed to usher in a new era of spanky DirectX 9.0 graphics, it was soon discovered that in fact several of the tests were somewhat DirectX 7 and 8 biased. The relative newness of DirectX 9.0 hardware was blamed - it would have alienated too many users who were still running older generations. As a result, it landed in no-man's land - many people persisted with 3DMark2001 as it was an old stalwart of measuring system performance, but many people including ourselves moved away from using 3DMark - with the invention of "real-world" measures like FRAPS, we could measure a card's performance using the things that mattered the most: Games!
InsaneTek has put their BFG GeForce 6800 OC review online. BFG is a fairly new company that established themselves in the computer industry rather quickly. They are well known for their friendly and responsive technical support and customer service. BFG is the only video card company that offers lifetime warranty on their video cards. A lifetime warranty! A video card doesn't even last a lifetime. Of course there are certain rules that you have to follow, such as no overclocking.
Well I wanted to mention that Accelenation has put an article online on 3DMark05.
The next chapter in Futuremark's synthetic benchmarking suite has finally arrived
- 3DMark05. Perhaps the term "synthetic" is slightly
disingenuous; after all, the 3DMark score itself has always been derived from
the in-built game simulations and never from the abstract "feature" tests. Some
people might argue that a score that derives from a single rendering engine can
never reflect hardware performance across a wide range of games. Although this
may be true, I believe that it completely misses the point of the 3DMark
result.
A review has been published on the Gainward PowerPack! Ultra1800 PCX Golden Sample by Overclockers Online. Today we have one of Gainward's PCI Express video card in for testing that offers buyers more performance at a higher price. Gainward is a nVidia tier-1 partner who only manufacters products built with nVidia GPUs. Gainward currently has three product series that they distinguised by use of cooling technologies.
ipKonfig has also put an article online an 3DMark05. Futuremark has released its latest version into the web, and a rather demanding version it is, too. A quick glance at the specs tells us that we're looking at expanded of benchmarking, being pushed further. Today's computers need something hard-core to produce to push the performance envelope for consumers; after all—they are the purchasers, aren't they?
Most, if not all nVidia partners intend to introduce overclocked versions of the Geforce 6600 GT card. nVidia sent out Geforce 6600 GT samples to the press with card that featured a 500MHz GPU clock and 1000MHz memory clocked card. Its partners suddenly received the green light from the green company that they can use 1100MHz memory and that will obviously increase performance numbers.
Vitual Zone gotten their hands on a XFX GeForce 6800 GT AGP graphics card. We have said it before and we will say it again, the video card sector is one of the most competitive and ever changing in all of the computer industry. We've seen ATI and NVIDIA battle for market dominance over the past three years, presenting a level of competition that this market has never seen before. Both companies have millions to spend on research and development, and their latest offerings, the NV40 and R420 series released earlier this year have proven ATI and NVIDIA's desire to have their name on the fastest graphics card currently available.
X-Bit-Labs also covered the new release of Futuremark's 3DMark. Graphics hardware for personal computers is continuing to develop faster than any other types of computing processors. With escalating competition between market leaders – ATI Technologies and nVidia Corp. – new generations of graphics chips deliver overwhelming advantage over previous generation products. Faster graphics chips and more demanding games urge different benchmarks that can clearly distinguish the best graphics card with others.
While ATI Technologies is shipping its new Radeon X700 PRO graphics processor, in order to get sufficient quantities of the more powerful Radeon X700 XT version of the chip, the Markham, Ontario-based developer of graphics processors needs a new revision of the Radeon X700 VPU
Well it seems like every site related to some hardware reviews has put a 3DMark05
review up. So also Elite
Bastards has gotten a review up. Ask your average gamer or hardware
enthusiast to name a benchmark - Any benchmark. Chances are the name that will
escape their lips will be 3DMark. Since the release of 3DMark99 almost six years
ago, this benchmark has cemented itself in the psyche of most as the pinnacle of
consumer 3D graphics for its time, each release bringing more and more lifelike
graphics, far beyond that seen in the games of its day, to its awed users. Today
sees the launch of a new version of 3DMark - 3DMark05.
Is this the benchmark to revive confidence in FutureMark and synthetic
benchmarking? Today we'll be taking a look to see just what the latest revision
in the 3DMark dynasty has to offer.
What's up next? Well HardwareZone has put up a review on the ATI Radeon 9250. So what's new in the Radeon 9250? Some people initially assumed that the Radeon 9250 is a DirectX 9 compliant VPU of the existing Radeon 9200 but that is actually the furthest from the truth. Sadly, there aren't any new features or for that matter, improvement in clock speeds either.
3DVelocity took a look at 3DMark05. The buzz on the net was that Futuremark would release 3DMark05 soon, many had speculated its arrival and now it's here.Futuremark started off with the release of XL-R8R, back when they were called the MadOnion. Each year another benchmark was released, 3DMark99 in October of 1998, then came 3DMark2000, followed by 3DMark2001 and then 3DMark03. 3DMark03 and 3DMark05 weren't released the next year, but instead after 2 years. This shows that the benchmarks grew and matured in both size and shape.
Well it seems all review sites have been looking at 3DMark05, so also Bjorn3D has put his review online. If there is one benchmark that has stood tall over the years, it is the 3DMark series from Futuremark. Ever since the release of 3DMark99 back in 1998, Futuremark has continued to provide us users (and reviewers) with a way to compare our video cards in a reproducible way. True, the benchmarks have been surrounded with some controversy the last few years, and many have questioned the use of synthetic benchmarks.
id Software has released the first Patch for Doom 3. The 1.1 update for Doom 3 includes a number of improvements and fixes for both single player and multiplayer components. The update also includes a new "Dedicated Server" executable.
HotHardware compared an ASUS Extreme X600 XT 128MB PCIe versus a MSI GeForce PCX5750 128MB PCIe graphics card. Here we offer a side-by-side comparion of today's value-based cards. With newer offerings looming on the horizon, these value-based models may become tomorrow's ultra-affordable PCI-E solutions. So, depending on your needs, they may warrant a closer look. Let's take a look at their respective retail packaging, then we'll get more familiar with the cards themselves. The potential benefits of PCI-E over AGP are dramatic, offering peak bandwidth of 4GBps (8GB concurrent), which more than doubles that of AGP 8X.
And also Hexus has posted some
article on the new Futuremark's 3DMark05. If, like many of your enthusiast peers,
you've been staring at the counter on Futuremark's website for the past couple of days, wondering
when 3DMark05 would make its debut, wonder no longer. If you're
reading this, it's past 1pm on Wednesday, 29th of September 2004, and we're
allowed to talk about the biggest deal in PC hardware
benchmarking.
DriverHeaven also has published an acticle about the new version of Futuremark's 3DMark. Its been 20 months since the release of 3DMark03 and that's a long time in the graphics industry. Many cards have come and gone as has the 15k barrier and so it was getting time for someone to really push the latest graphics cards to their limits. That company is Futuremark and today the NDA lifts on their latest product, 3DMark05. At Driverheaven they have been lucky enough to have access to the benchmark in advance of its launch and have run nVidia and ATI's latest and greatest cards through the benchmark with some rather surprising results. Read on to find out exactly whats new in this version of 3DMark and also to see how the results panned out...
Well the first reviews & articles are getting published on the new 3DMark05 Benchmark Suite. The Tech Report was one of the first websites to have an article about it online. Futuremark intends its new version of 3DMark to give us a glimpse of the future yet again, and if 3DMark05 is any indication, the future of 3D games looks very bright indeed. Read on to see what Futuremark has wrought and how thirteen of the latest graphics cards perform in this new benchmark.
Well since the counter was already running for som days, it finally reached the end. So as of now the new version of 3DMark05 can be grapped from the futuremark website.
Well somehow I think a lot if us where waiting for this... And PCUnleash has done it. We have
to admit that a fairly long period of time has passed between the day PCUnleash came out with their
notorious X800 mod, and today, well they are able to share the long-awaited
6800mod. One of the reasons it's taken so long is that it took a while to
perform the necessary research for something as ambitious as the 6800mod. To be
honest, PCUnleash had had
the idea of modding the 6800, even while they were publishing the X800pro mod.
However, they didn't have the entire 6800 series at there disposal at the time,
so they could not yet verify if such a mod was actually going to
work.
Unika 8800GTS PCIe 512MB - Rev 01
