|
Written by Phyro
|
|
Monday, 04 October 2004 |
XGI, the Taiwanese graphics chip maker, wants to return to market with a stronger family of products. This time, XGI is talking about its chip codenamed XP47, a native PCI Express thing that will have support for Pixel Shader 3.0.
 XGI's XP47 is PS 3.0
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Monday, 04 October 2004 |
nVidia has an answer for ATI's Hypermemory. nVidia is not ready to talk about it publicly, but we already know quite a bit about it. That's because nVidia is already talking with its big customers about it and telling them how great this marchitecture will be. It will use the PCIe bi-directional bus to use system memory RAM as graphics memory.
nVidia to announce Turbo cache marchitecture
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Sunday, 03 October 2004 |
ByteSector has put a nice
review together on the ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder 9800 Pro. ATI has been an industry leader in
computer graphics for many years now. They currently lead the market with their
top of the line X800 graphics card and have just released their All-in-Wonder
version of the X800, but who has an extra $600 sitting around to spend on the
top of the line graphics card? The solution, jump down one level to the 9800 Pro
VPU and grab an All-in-Wonder graphics card for less than $400! The Radeon 9800
VPU has many of ATI's latest,
non-HD, features available at your finger tips.
ATI
Radeon All-in-Wonder 9800 Pro Review
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Phyro
|
|
Sunday, 03 October 2004 |
Absolute Insight has once again put the Catalyst, Omega, and DNA drivers in the gladiator arena to duke it out for the championship title. Will ATI's latest Catalyst 4.9 reign supreme, or will it be another stalemate? ATI claims to have dramatically improved performance in both Doom 3 and UT2004 with their 4.9 release.
ATI Catalyst 4.8 & 4.9, Omega, DNA Driver Benchmarks
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Sunday, 03 October 2004 |
The ASUS Extreme AX800 XT 256MB PCIe graphics card has been reviewed by Hexus. ATI has been slow in getting its Radeon X800 XT AGP cards out to partners and the retail market. Slow is perhaps being kind. Reviewers first passed judgement on the Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition over five months ago and we're still waiting for retail to become widely available. That, frankly, is simply not on. Enthusiasts are given a taste of gaming nirvana and then subjected to an interminable wait. ATI is having another bash at releasing an R420 variant. This time the fun is packaged in PCI Express (PCIe) format, perfect for that high-performance PCIe PC you're thinking of building.
ASUS Extreme AX800 XT 256MB PCI-E Review
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Saturday, 02 October 2004 |
Here is the latest version of the 66.xx Series of NVIDIA ForceWare Drivers.
- Non WHQL Certified Beta
- Operating System: 2000/XP
- International Language Support
- Supported cards: All GeForce Cards
- Disclaimer: Use at own Risk!
- Not Supported by NVIDIA
There are
basically 2 versions made available, one for English only use and one for International use, both with Full Installer that can be run to install the new
NVIDIA ForceWare Drivers.
 ForceWare
WinXP2k Eng v66.81
 ForceWare
WinXP2k Int v66.81
|
|
|
Written by Phyro
|
|
Saturday, 02 October 2004 |
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.
Gigabyte Radeon X300 Review
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Saturday, 02 October 2004 |
OmegaDrivers have released their modified Drivers of the ATI Catalyst Beta 8.07 Drivers. These always deliver exellent performance and image quality.
Omega WinXP2k v2.5.90
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Saturday, 02 October 2004 |
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!
3DMark05 Review
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Friday, 01 October 2004 |
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.
BFG GeForce 6800 OC Review
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Friday, 01 October 2004 |
Seems like Futuremark had to release an urgent hotfix for a issue encountered with the 3DMark05 release of this week.
3DMark05 Hotfix 110
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Phyro
|
|
Friday, 01 October 2004 |
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.
3DMark05 Review
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Friday, 01 October 2004 |
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.
Gainward PowerPack! Ultra1800 PCX Golden Sample Review
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Friday, 01 October 2004 |
Here is the latest version of the 66.xx Series of NVIDIA ForceWare Drivers.
- Non WHQL Certified Beta
- Operating System: 2000/XP
- International Language Support
- Supported cards: All GeForce Cards
- Disclaimer: Use at own Risk!
- Not Supported by NVIDIA
This time it is only the version with the Simple Executable that can be run to install the new NVIDIA ForceWare Drivers.
ForceWare WinXP2k v66.72
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Thursday, 30 September 2004 |
Here is the another version of the 66.xx Series of NVIDIA ForceWare Drivers.
- Non WHQL Certified Beta
- Operating System: 2000/XP
- International Language Support
- Supported cards: All GeForce Cards
- Disclaimer: Use at own Risk!
- Not Supported by NVIDIA
This time it is
only the version with the Simple Executable that can be run to install the new
NVIDIA ForceWare Drivers.
ForceWare WinXP2k v66.29
|
|
|
Written by Phyro
|
|
Friday, 01 October 2004 |
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?
FutureMark 3DMark05 Glance
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Friday, 01 October 2004 |
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.
nVidia partners overclock 6600GT
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Friday, 01 October 2004 |
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.
XFX GeForce 6800 GT Review
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Phyro
|
|
Thursday, 30 September 2004 |
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.
3DMark05: The Future of Computer Games in Numbers
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Phyro
|
|
Thursday, 30 September 2004 |
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
ATI Needs New Chip Revision for RADEON X700 XT
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Thursday, 30 September 2004 |
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.
3DMark05 Review
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Phyro
|
|
Thursday, 30 September 2004 |
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.
ATI Radeon 9250 Shootout
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Phyro
|
|
Thursday, 30 September 2004 |
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.
3DMark05 First Look
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Wednesday, 29 September 2004 |
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.
Futuremark's 3DMark05
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Mavke
|
|
Wednesday, 29 September 2004 |
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.
Doom 3 - Patch v1.1
|
|
Read more...
|
|
TpuGPU-Z v0.3.1
