Something big comes this way. So what is it? The Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe. Palit has been a manufacturer that has come up with creative solutions to resolve the problems associated with a reference based video card. The Sonic models are Palit built and designed cards that offer excellent cooling solutions as well as better power management to create a product that outperforms the base models on all accounts. The Revolution 700 is a special card when you take the time to look at it. Specification wise, it does not differ much from the reference cards, 750MHz core clock speed but they do give a bump on the GDDR5 memory to 3800MHz. So what makes the Revolution 700 so special? - Overclocker Club

Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe Heatpipe Cooling Review

Palit is not known for launching cutting edge products ahead of the competition, as they can be described as the tortoise in a race against the hare. What Palit does do well is deliver a refined product to store shelves. The Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe is one such example, which offers the Radeon HD 4870 X2 with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and is cooled by a proprietary triple slot thermal solution. Now technology just doesn't play favorites, and when it reaches an apex there is an indifference towards who develops it. ATI has learned this lesson the hard way, having watched from the sidelines for so long that most have forgotten that AMD could be a leader in technology, and made the first step. - Benchmark Reviews

Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe CrossFire Design Review

We have all heard the phrase two heads are better than one, but are three heads better than two? In sports and other competitive aspects to have a three to one advantage will always place the favor to that side, but how does this relate to computers and cooling? We have all become used to two slot cooling solutions when we purchase a high end video card, and at one time have even complained about it taking up too much space. Well now we are moving into the realm of three slot cooling solutions which to some will take up even more space, and if your system doesn't come complete with a full tower case or some extra expansion slots, you might not even be able to accommodate it. - HiTechLegion

Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe CrossFireX Card Preview

NVIDIA's attempts to reignite its ageing graphics card line-up took a turn for the better with the release of big bang drivers, also known as revision 180, which were made public nearly two weeks ago. At that time, we mused on the tri-fold benefits such as multi display SLI, free performance and GPU specific PhysX and thought it a positive step. Now with the GeForce GTX 260, the 216 core edition pricing coming down a touch, it's time to revisit the old NVIDIA versus ATI debate, to see who wins at around the $300 mark. Point of View sent us its GeForce GTX 260 Premium edition, a Core 216 version and we put it up against some ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB loving, to see who's on top. - Hexus

Point of View GeForce GTX 260 Premium 216 Review

We have spent several weeks with the EVGA e-GeForce GTX 280's we received some time ago. They've been productive weeks, full of testing, playing and living with the EVGA e-GeForce GTX 280 in single card and SLI configuration and while we still have a lot of testing to do, we decided to go ahead with a single card and SLI article. We're saving the 3-way SLI for a week or two and then we'll break it out with some of the hottest titles of the season in what's sure to be an SLI versus CrossFire extravaganza of epic proportions. We have got to tell you that there's a certain feeling that you get when you hold these monsters in your hand that's almost indescribable, which you should just find out yourself. - Bjorn3D

EVGA e-GeForce GTX 280 SLI Config Gaming Review

HIS is a company known for their various AMD based video cards, especially those with the excellent IceQ cooler. We have looked a lot of their cards and overall, we've been very impressed with their quality and performance. One of their popular line of cards has been the cards using the various IceQ coolers from Arctic Cooling. While the IceQ coolers are really silent even when the cards are running at maximum performance, they still emit a bit of sound, enough to annoy those who want a totally silent system. The solution, of course, is to make the card passive cooled, and HIS also offers a few passively cooled cards where they have partnered up with Zalman to cool them passively. - Bjorn3D

HIS Radeon HD 4650 iSilence 512MB Cooling Preview

Today we bring you the full view on the latest GeForce GTX 260 card with 216 shaders. We've so far discovered that this card clearly has the upper hand when compared to the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, but we've also seen how the new drivers significantly improve its performance. Many of NVIDIA's partners jumped at the opportunity to overclock GT200 core on these GeForce GTX 260 cards, which are reinforced with some additional shaders. These extra shaders will be very useful in their battle with ATI for the price to performance ratio. XFX named the card Black edition, something they do with the crème of the crop cards, and it's our privilege to put it through its paces today for your reading pleasure. - FudZilla

XFX GeForce GTX 260 Black Core 216 Design Review

ATI has spent much of the last decade producing the FireGL line of high-end workstation graphics cards, very regularly challenging and often times besting competing products from NVIDIA's Quadro lineup. ATI's last generation of FireGL products, which we covered heavily, were excellent all around performers. Now it certainly wasn't perfect, but was definitely solid improvements over the generation of FireGL cards which preceded it. Now in late 2008, we are seeing ATI's first moves to eventually kill off the long known FireGL brand. Its replacement? ATI has yet to introduce top to bottom FirePro class products to replace the FireGL, but it's delivered the first four cards of many to come in the future. - HotHardware

ATI FirePro V8700 Workstation Graphics Card Review

For those who missed it, the Radeon HD 4870 X2 is essentially two Radeon HD 4870's operating in CrossFire mode, albeit on a single card. And as if the original wasn't already huge enough, Palit has super sized their Radeon HD 4870 X2. What they call the Revolution 700 Deluxe takes up a grand total of three slots. With the super sizing, one might assume that their Revolution 700 Deluxe is heavily overclocked out of the box by the factory. That is not the case with the Revolution 700 Deluxe. Strangely enough, Palit has chosen not to overclock the core even the slightest. Even the ASUS video card fitted with a stock cooler is overclocked, and as such looking faster towards gaming performance. - VR-Zone

Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe Graphics Version Review

Despite NVIDIA's efforts, ATI graphics chips continue to set the bar for today's top performing add-in board solutions and there have been efforts by certain add-in board companies to further the technology a bit to suit their own demographic. One of the leading companies setting this trend comes to us with a name that's been around a long time, namely Diamond. The Radeon HD 4870 card has been available since July and continues to be favored by gamers who want a great performing graphics card for today's top-end games. Diamond has ramped it up a bit by slapping on an additional 512MB for a total of 1GB and while we are the first to admit that there's not going to be a big performance delta. - Boot Daily

Diamond Radeon HD 4870 1GB Graphics Card Review

NVIDIA is set to trickle out the latest batch of 55nm parts. There are already some pictures and tidbits about the latest 55nm GT200 going around, and some GX2 info floating around as well. It looks like the on-off again, with the dual GT200 being on again and it is going to be called the GeForce GTX 295. Yay, the 55nm parts, internally code named GT206 are finally trickling out like we said they would, with no speed increases and no power gains, which is surely a pitty with such a shrink. What should have been a simple optical shrink is turning into a totally botched job, with the real 55nm parts unlikely to come out until late January at the earliest following yet another spin. - The Inquirer

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 The Dual 55nm Part Update

While NVIDIA doesn't yet have a new generation graphics processor, it can only oppose ATI with the good old G92 architecture that proved worthy over time. The GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card didn't have a very happy fate. This follower of NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTX and Ultra was meant to rule in the $349 category but actually had to compete with the dangerous Radeon HD 4850 which was originally targeted into a cheaper market sector. As a result, many traits of this Goliath proved to be inappropriate, transforming into drawbacks. In contrast, the Radeon HD 4850 has a compact single slot cooler, one power connector and delivered higher performance at a lower price across various games. - X-Bit Labs

Palit GeForce 9800 GTX+ Graphics Card Style Review

With the winter holiday season approaching people are looking for new products to put under the Christmas tree. With the economic recession in full force a new video card which costs less than $200 might be more feasible this year. We have tested a GeForce 9800 GTX in the past from Gainward, and the revised GTX+ increases the shader and GPU clocks to give the card a fighting chance below the $200 price point. This is certainly a good step, to battle the recent great products from ATI which do well in this segment. In time for holiday shopping spree Sparkle launches a custom GeForce 9800 GTX+ which features onboard HDMI and a silent cooling. Can it run the latest games fluently? - Madshrimps

Sparkle GeForce 9800 GTX+ Custom Cooling Preview

The Radeon HD 4800 series has been extremely popular for AMD over the past few months and as the time passes we've seen many companies make changes to the design to help them continue standing out. The latest company to attack a Radeon HD 4800 series card is Palit and the particular model is the top dog from the ATI range, the Radeon HD 4870 X2. So, what has Palit done to the card to make it stand out from the rest? Let's jump forward to see what Palit has done with the package before we have a closer look at the card itself. From there we will strap the card into our brand spanking new X58 based rig to see exactly what it's capable of. We're expecting big numbers from this beast. - TweakTown

Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe 2GB Bi-CrossFire Review

As announced, NVIDIA presented their new GeForce GTX 260 with larger amount of stream processors. This is consequence of the facts that the regular GeForce GTX 260 didn't have expected performances levels and that price was too high compared to similar products on the market. Simply put the GeForce GTX 260 was very fast but since the Radeon HD 4870 had better performance to price ratio NVIDIA had to do something and as result we have now the GeForce GTX 260+ version. The difference between the two are the 24 shaders that have been added. This time we got the GeForce GTX 260+ graphics version signed by XFX that belong to the Black edition series, tuned for the hardcore gamer. - InsideHW

XFX GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Black Edition Review

We have learned that the dual GT200 card, something that should finally help NVIDIA to dethrone the Radeon HD 4870 X2, is going to sample by the middle of this month, while it will be available in January. We are not aware of the real performance numbers but we have learned that it should end up faster than the Radeon HD 4870 X2. This is the whole point of this card, to win the performance crown back. The card is based on 55nm GT200 chips and despite the fact that it might be the bulkiest card and most power hungry card ever made, it also has a chance to be the fastest thing ever made in very late 2008. But will only be really available early 2009, or a bit later to the big public we mean. - FudZilla

NVIDIA With Dual 55nm GT200 Samples In December

With the release of the newest Batman movie, there has been a lot of talk about the Dark Knight lately, so much so that ASUS decided to name a custom card using the same name. This card has four heatpipes. Heatpipes have been proven on many occasions to help the flow of heat immensely. Rarely do you ever see heatpipes used on any video card, even special edition cards. Heatpipes are usually reserved for the best after market GPU coolers. It should be interesting to see how these heatpipes affect overclocking. What would the Dark Knight name be without a cool design to go with it? That is why ASUS has painted the GPU cooler a cool black silverish color along with a blue stylish PCB. - Bjorn3D

ASUS GeForce 9800 GTX+ Dark Knight Board Review

Back in August, ATI released the Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card. The original reference version, built by a contractor for ATI, and sold to the various ATI partners. Though a quite wicked graphics card, did have some opportunities for improvement, mainly in the cooling system. The two massive copper heatsinks just weren't getting enough airflow from the single fan, making the card's temps little on the scary side, with up to 90°C load temps. Our friends at Palit, who usually aren't happy with the reference design of video cards anyway, have come up with a new version of the Radeon HD 4870 X2, with two fans blowing on a pair of heatpipe coolers to cool off those cookin' GPU's. - ThinkComputers

Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe 2GB Video Card Review

NVIDIA just recently has been turning up the heat and with the holiday season almost here they are pushing their GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 graphics card harder than ever. Of course ATI is able to answer with the Radeon HD 4870 1GB edition, but how does it compare in the latest and greatest games? The Radeon HD 4870 512MB was launched right around the same time as the GeForce GTX 260, some five months ago now. The Radeon HD 4870 delivered a similar level of performance at a significantly lower price tag, which as such making it the more attractive option. So therefore NVIDIA was forced to lower their pricing from $450 before launch day to $400 once released to be competitive. - Legion Hardware

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Card Style Review

With the great economic hardships that we are in more and more people are being cost conscious when they make a purchase wether it be gas for the car or computer hardware. We want the best we can get for the money we spend. ATI has realized this issue and also realize that people want to get that upgrade to bring their computers faster and up to date so they have released the Radeon HD 4830 series card. The Radeon HD 4830 series cards bring a good performer for not a lot of money to the video card table. PowerColor has released their Radeon HD 4830 targeted at mainstream PC users looking for a bit of a graphics boost, as such brings a new product for the holiday season. - Overclockers Club

PowerColor Radeon HD 4830 Custom Cooling Review

After taking a look at our last Sapphire video card and being totally impressed, we were more than willing to take a look at their latest offering in the Radeon HD 4800 series family. Now the Radeon HD 4830 is basically a cut down version of Sapphire's Radeon HD 4850, and by doing so Sapphire is able to offer it at a much lower price point while still able to offer pretty close to the same overall performance, or so that's what Sapphire is saying anyways. We will find out just how well the card does soon enough. So, enough of the formalities. Let's get on to looking at this graphics card and see just how well it will stand up to the NVIDIA competition, especially the newer GeForce 9800 GT series. - Bjorn3D

Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 Custom Cool Style Review

We came home today to find a nice Fed-Ex box sitting by our chair. We opened it up to find Sapphire's latest addition to the graphics rendering world, with the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830. Their Radeon HD 4830, which fills the gap between the Radeon HD 4670 and the Radeon HD 4850, is the entry level Radeon HD 4800 series graphics card and is aimed towards the budget gaming market. This should really give ATI and extra boost in sales especially with the holiday season nearby and swing in some extra money. We will be taking a closer look at the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 and see how it does in hours of gaming combat. Can it run with the big dogs? Or does it need to stay on the porch? - Modders-Inc

Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 Standard Graphics Review

The recent flurry of launches of video cards has really redefined what the industry is like on the market especially with the holiday season just starting. ATI and NVIDIA have completed their holiday lineups of video cards with numerous cards available across the myriad price spectrum. The high-end of the graphics card market is dominated by the GeForce GTX 280 and ATI's Radeon HD 4870 X2 cards at over $400, but what about the mid-range? NVIDIA's answer to the mid-range of the video card spectrum surfaced in the form of the GeForce 9800 GT and GTX products. And the GeForce 9800 GT is basically a rebranded GeForce 8800 GT, but with the extra HybridPower tehnology. - Motherboards

ASUS Extreme N9800 GT HybridPower Board Review

We have looked at quite a few Radeon HD 4850's ever since the card launched earlier this summer and many of them have had very good custom cooling solutions. None however, have been passively cooled until today, as we've got Gigabyte's Radeon HD 4850 1GB, complete with its Multi-Core passive cooling solution. What's more we haven't looked at how the Radeon HD 4850 reacts to more memory because it just hasn't been an official AMD product and partners haven't really pushed it until now. Maybe there was a reason for that, because it was as if AMD delayed the launch of the Radeon HD 4870 1GB until there were enough titles released that benefitted from the additional memory. - Bit-Tech

Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 Multi-Core Cooling Review

After their rather disappointing Radeon HD 3800 series, ATI took the world by surprise with the Radeon HD 4800 generation of graphics boards. Since their launch back in June, ATI has reclaimed its presence in the market and has been steadily eating away at NVIDIA's marketshare. We have had the opportunity to check out several cards from the Radeon HD 4800 series lineup and today we look at one of the newest additions to the family, the Radeon HD 4830. This particular model, the Extreme AH4830, comes to us from ASUS and sports a custom cooler and factory overclocked memory. We'll put it through its paces and find out how it compares to its two closest siblings. - Benchmark Reviews

ASUS Extreme AH4830 512MB Graphics Style Review