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Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-19-2009 Category: Hardware The XFX GeForce GT 240 512MB DDR5 HDMI card is an interesting card that would have made A GREAT addition to NVIDIA’s lineup just a year ago. Its job was to replace the 9600GT in NVIDIA’s lineup and I think it has succeeded in havi...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 11-17-2009 Category: Hardware Leading graphics supplier, SAPPHIRE Technology is now introducing a broader range of PC power supplies aimed at providing the very best specification of PSU for the PC builder, gamer and PC enthusiast at affordable prices. SAPPHIR...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 11-17-2009 Category: Hardware Leading graphics supplier, SAPPHIRE Technology is now introducing a broader range of PC power supplies aimed at providing the very best specification of PSU for the PC builder, gamer and PC enthusi...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 11-12-2009 Category: Hardware For all the latest reviews and gear! http://www.motherboards.org Follow us on twitter! http://www.twitter.com/moth... The Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 Vapor-X video card is a slightly faster ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-04-2009 Category: Hardware Two HD 5850s are definitely better than a single card in almost every game. To take advantage of two cards of this magnitude you almost have to turn up FSAA to 8x and AF to 16x as performance with 4x FSAA is nearly CPU limited on ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-03-2009 Category: Hardware The Sapphire Radeon HD 5750 Vapor-X video card is a slightly faster overclocked version of their regular HD 5750 card. While a 10MHz overclock on both the core and memory clock speeds is not much, that is not the point of this car...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 11-03-2009 Category: Hardware Patriot Torqx 128 GB Solid State Drive SSD Real World Tests. Along with the synthetic tests, we like to show you real world tests to show you how this drive performs in a everyday tasks for the no...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-26-2009 Category: Hardware Every ATI HD 5850 card on the market is exactly the same at the moment with differentiators being the Support and the bundle. GIGABYTE has a reference HD 5850 card that performs as well as any other HD 5850 card as the clock speed...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 10-24-2009 Category: Hardware Two HD 5770 cards perform better than a single HD5850 card and two HD 5850 cards perform much better than a single HD 5770 card. Considering the price of the two HD 5770s is nearly the same as a HD 5870 card I would suggest buying...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-18-2009 Category: Hardware These are not gaming cards that is the first thing to get out of the way. If you are looking for a fast video card I would suggest looking elsewhere as these cards do not have the performance to run the latest and greatest games w...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-12-2009 Category: Hardware Each of the cards in the lineup has its own strengths and weaknesses. In terms of card design the five cards are all reference cards with none of them having higher core or memory clocks than the other similar cards in the lineup....
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-09-2009 Category: Hardware ATI has two products on their list which are game-changing in the fact that they will likely be the only DirectX 11 supporting video cards on the market until 2010 when the consumer version of the Fermi architecture announced by N...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-09-2009 Category: Hardware ATI has hit a home run with the HD 5800 series as the cards are the fastest single chip solutions on the market for most applications and the full compliance with DirectX 11 allows you to have a sense of future-proofing more than ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-24-2009 Category: Hardware I’m of two minds on the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX260 Core 216 Super Overclocked card. On the one hand the card clearly outperforms the other GeForce GTX 260s on the market and with the latest driver outperforms some GTX275s. The GIGABY...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-19-2009 Category: Hardware n the world of video cards it’s always about the chicken and the egg. On the one hand video cards need to support standards like DirectX 11 and OpenGL 3.2, on the other hand having a card release before there are games that take a...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-01-2009 Category: Hardware The ASUS EAH4890/HTDI/1GDD5/A card shares many common features with the TOP card including the dual fans, the 6 heatpipe cooling solution, the Super ML Cap and Voltage Tweaks. The difference between the two cards is the higher clo...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-28-2009 Category: Hardware The HED 4850 is an interesting beast of a video card. In terms of performance, the card is faster than the GTX 285 and faster than a single HD 4890 yet lacking against the HD 4870 x2 as is to be expected with the lower clocks and ... Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-22-2009 Category: Hardware The ASUS Matrix GTX 285/HTDI/1GD3/A card is an interesting beast of a card. With a lower default clock you would expect performance of the card to be lower than the other cards I’ve tested, but this was not the case. The card scor...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-15-2009 Category: Hardware From a pure performance point of view the XFX HD465X-YAF2 Radeon HD 4650 512MB video card is not going to win awards as the card is based upon the mainstream version of the RV7xx series. From the perspective of someone wanting an ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-05-2009 Category: Hardware ZOTAC is a new company to me with this being the first product I've reviewed from them. From a performance point of view, the GeForce GTX285 is the fastest single chip card on the market today, and ZOTAC's card comes clocked highe...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-31-2009 Category: Hardware For now, the HD 4890 is ATI's best video card besides the dual-chip HD 4870 x2. With an overclocked out of the box clock speed of 870MHz and a memory clock speed of 1050MHz, the Sapphire Vapor-X video card is faster than the defau...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-29-2009 Category: Hardware If you want a modern video card that runs DirectX 10 games there really isn't another choice than the HD 4650 on the market right now. NVIDIA has abandoned the AGP market, with the last AGP video card the 7900GT, which is a Direct...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-10-2009 Category: Hardware Sapphire has taken an already powerful card in the HD 4870 and overclocked it. The resulting card is nothing less than superb with the extra cooling that the Vapor-X offers I was able to overclock the card to 810MHz for the core a...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-02-2009 Category: Hardware The Radeon HD 4870 is not the newest available card from ATI; the HD 4890 replaced it earlier this year. Performance on the HD 4870 is still excellent for the price. Sapphire went the extra mile with the cooling on the card, rarel... Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-18-2009 Category: Hardware From a performance point of view, if you're looking for the fastest card there really isn't much choice but to go with the GeForce GTX295 as it offers blistering performance in the latest games with the highest resolutions and set...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-05-2009 Category: Hardware From a performance point of view the GeForce GTX 275 from XFX performs exactly as specified from a standard GeForce GTX 275 card. The card outperforms the Radeon HD 4890 in a number of the applications as well in a head to head co...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-28-2009 Category: Hardware From a pure performance point of view the GIGABYTE GV-N96TSL-1GI video card is not the fastest card in its price range. Where this card excels however is in the temperature rating it gets idle (52C) and under normal stress conditi...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-20-2009 Category: Hardware The bottom line on the XFX card is: this card is priced online for $109.99 which is the MSRP ATI suggests for this card. You get the performance, features and support that you would expect from a card with the XFX branding. XFX bu...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 05-20-2009 Category: Hardware MSI's card is the same as the reference design Radeon HD 4770, as the clock speeds and specifications are the same in almost every way. Performance of the card is similar to the other HD 4770s I've tested. Overclocking on the car...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-18-2009 Category: Hardware The ENGTX260Matrix is a very interesting card for those wanting the ultimate in cooling for their video cards. Two fans allow the card to reach 650MHz by overclocking the card via iTracker. You get the ASUS quality hardware and so...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-17-2009 Category: Hardware The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 275 is an interesting beast of a card. It is designed to compete directly with the ATI Radeon HD 4890 and does a great job of doing just that. In the vast majority of cases the Gigabyte card beats the HD 4...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-12-2009 Category: Hardware As the GTX260 is a pretty balanced video card in the scheme of things against the competition from ATI and other cards in this price range, the MSI card would logically be a faster version of that card. The card easily overclocked...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 05-04-2009 Category: Hardware ATI launched this card for a MSRP of $109 with a $10 rebate making it a sub $100 card. At this price point, ATI has a winner as performance is close in most cases to the bigger brother the HD 4850 and GeForce GTS 250. DirectX 10.1...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-27-2009 Category: Hardware Today ATI launches their latest venture into the video card arena, code name the HD4770. The day of this launch we were lucky enough to get our hands on one made by our friends a Gigabyte in just the nick of time. We only received...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-27-2009 Category: Hardware EVGA offers the best support on the planet for most of their cards. A 2-year warranty may not seem like much but the fact remains that few people have video cards longer than 2 years, especially for those that want the higher end ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-25-2009 Category: Hardware MSI has taken the GeForce GTS 250 card and clocked it higher than the reference design, which NVIDIA clocks their standard cards at. While performance is not much improved, a lot of it can be attributed to the fact that the higher...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-22-2009 Category: Hardware The XFX GeForce GTS 250 Core Edition video card is available online for $129.99 off Newegg. For a limited time, you can purchase the card and get Call of Duty World at War as a bonus. The inclusion of a free game makes the purchas...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-13-2009 Category: Hardware XFX’s move to making ATI-based video cards is a long awaited one. With NVIDIA having troubles throughout and with the economic recession in full force throughout the computer industry, choice and price/performance are more importa... Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-26-2009 Category: Hardware Workstation video cards are a totally different market from the consumer gaming cards. What is unacceptable in price to the average consumer is considered a bargain for workstation video cards. Quadro cards are the number one work...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-15-2009 Category: Hardware Triple SLI is all about the Benjamin's. After all the outlay for a triple SLI system with three GTX280s is over a thousand dollars just for the graphics cards alone, not counting the PSU, the CPU to power the system, or the other ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-03-2009 Category: Hardware The ASUS ENGTX260/HTDP/896M/A video card is an interesting mix of the latest NVIDIA technology (in the form of 216 cores, 55nm version available, PhysX) and a reasonable price (239.99 after MIR as of this writing). Performance wis...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-25-2009 Category: Hardware In terms of GeForce GTX 285, the card is quite obviously a speed bump of the GeForce GTX280. For those expecting miracles on the second revision of the GTX280 this card offers higher performance, more processing power and a lower ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-01-2009 Category: Hardware The positives of this card include an excellent cooling solution that doesn’t quit and keeps the card running cool. Under load temperatures of 44C maximum at default clock speeds is just amazing. The card overclocked successfully ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 12-19-2008 Category: Hardware MSI’s R4670 card is an interesting card in that it closely follows ATI’s reference design in almost every respect. The new drivers from ATI have improved performance in some areas and lowered performance slightly in other areas w...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 12-05-2008 Category: Hardware The HD 4870 X2 is a beast of a video card, with performance that outstrips that of the GeForce GTX 280 in most applications where the CPU is not the limiting factor. Currently, the Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe Radeon HD 4870 X2 is ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 11-18-2008 Category: Hardware So there are really two takes on this card today. The XFX GTX 260 216 Black Edition is the fastest available GeForce GTX 260 card on the market with a clock speed exceeding the reference clock speeds by 90 MHz. At this moment the ...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 11-13-2008 Category: Hardware The 9800GTX+ Black Edition from XFX is on the market for a $229.00 price point, or nearly the same price as some of the HD 4850 cards and is still lower than the HD 4870 or GeForce GTX260 chipset models. There’s a lot of overlap i...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 11-12-2008 Category: Hardware The 4870 from MSI performs better than the ATI reference card across the board, mainly due to the improved clock speed over the original. The card is available online for a retail price of $299.99 making it a decent buy. The card ... Author: Ben Sun Date: 10-13-2008 Category: Hardware From a strict performance point of view versus the standard 512MB HD 4870 this card didn’t seem much faster in most of the tests I ran it in and strangely slower in one or two tests. This is to be expected from a video card that ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 10-10-2008 Category: Hardware The ATI Radeon HD 4350 is an excellent card for the HTPC crowd. The ability to fit the card into a half height bay means it’ll fit into most cases without issue. The ability to run 7.1 HDMI Audio is a definite plus as the card can...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 10-03-2008 Category: Hardware The video card market has been turned on its ear by the competition between NVIDIA and ATI for the gaming dollar. As soon as one company releases a new card the other either seems to release a new card to compete or lowers the pr...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 09-30-2008 Category: Hardware For those wanting an inexpensive card that does the job when playing back HD content or a HTPC (Home Theater PC) that wants a quiet card that doesn’t draw a lot of power, the HD 4550 card will fit the bill nicely at a price of $5...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 09-22-2008 Category: Hardware The 9800GTX+ from XFX is on the market for a $199 price point, or nearly the same price as the HD 4850 card and lower than the HD 4870 or GeForce GTX260 chip. There’s a lot of overlap in the video card market as video cards that w...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 09-16-2008 Category: Hardware ATI has hit a homerun in many respects with the HD 4xxx family of video cards u. The HD 4670 has similar performance to its older brother, the HD 3850 and better pricing. NVIDIA and ATI are both competing for the video card dollar...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 09-05-2008 Category: Hardware The HD 4850 supports all of the features of DirectX 10.1 meaning that if a game requires it the card supports it. As the little brother of the HD 4870, the HD 4850 from MSI is a great choice for all but the most hardcore enthusias...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 09-01-2008 Category: Hardware The GeForce 9800GT card is in many respects a rebadged 8800GT card in a new package. The 9800GT has many things in common with the earlier 8800GT which is both a blessing and a curse. Performance of the 9800GT in single mode is as...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 08-27-2008 Category: Hardware The All in Wonder HD is an interesting jack of all trades video card. The good points include the ability to playback and record live TV on the PC, decent gaming performance in the form of the HD 3650 and the ability to run FM Rad...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 08-12-2008 Category: Hardware There is nothing to balk about with this release, even the price is not overtly overboard from an out of gate newcomer X2 series card as the 4870 X2 will even out price wise at about $500.00 US, and that’s not too out of line for ... Author: Doc Overclock Date: 07-26-2008 Category: Hardware Being such a large company like Palit is they are not limited by virtue of the numbers game to any one chipset slinger and offer VGA solutions from both the big guys ATI and NVIDIA. This gives Palit a broader spectrum of sales and...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 07-22-2008 Category: Hardware The GTX260 from XFX is an interesting beast in that it is highly overclocked from the standard reference GTX260 that many companies are selling. In some cases the card comes close in performance to the GTX280 in CPU limited situat... Author: Ben Sun Date: 07-19-2008 Category: Hardware Hightech Information Systems (HIS Tech) is a Hong Kong based manufacturer of video cards that uses ATI chips exclusively. They carry the full lineup from ATI including the high-end HD3870X2 and the HD3870. The market for high-...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 06-29-2008 Category: Hardware In my last review on the HD4850, I discussed price/performance. The 4850 was an excellent buy for $199 as the card outperformed any variant of the 9800GTX card available. Today’s 4870 card is an excellent value for the MSRP of $29...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 06-20-2008 Category: Hardware ATI has been manufacturing video cards for many years and has been in a catfight with their archrival NVIDIA for as long as NVIDIA has been around. As a rule the battle has been back and forth with NVIDIA winning in the GeForce er...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 06-16-2008 Category: Hardware Wow, there is fast and then there is faster and then there’s the fastest. The new EVGA GTX208 FTW Edition VGA card is the fastest single card solution we have ever had to grace our labs period; it’s as fast as an entry level 9800G... Author: Doc Overclock Date: 06-12-2008 Category: Hardware ASUS is a leading provider of video cards, motherboards, and other computer components. ASUS sells video cards based upon both NVIDIA and ATI graphics chips. ATI released the HD3870 late last year offering high performance at a re...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 06-01-2008 Category: Hardware The video card market is defined today by the battle between NVIDIA and ATI, the last men standing from a group of over 30 video card companies back in 1996. Companies like 3DFX, Evans and Sutherland, S3 (the original S3), Renditi...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 05-21-2008 Category: Hardware Enough of politics though let’s talk about the subject at hand the all new Black Edition series that XFX is releasing to satisfy the overclocker and enthusiast. It seems as if the Alpha Dog series will be now become the second fas...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-16-2008 Category: Hardware Today ECS is releasing another 8800GT card. So why release an 8800GT card when there are 9800GTX cards and 9600GT cards for sale? Good question. The 8800GT is still a great card and while the 512MB versions of the card are expensi...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-07-2008 Category: Hardware ATI has been at the forefront of the push towards higher graphics standards, being the first video card company to use DirectX 8.1 graphics with the Radeon 8500, the first to DirectX 9.0 with the Radeon 9700 Pro and the first to D...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-25-2008 Category: Hardware The EVGA 8800GT 1GB AKIMBO is an interesting card in many respects. The performance is not up to the 9800GTX but it is close being that the two cards share the same video chip just with 16 SPs disabled. The main selling point of t...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-18-2008 Category: Hardware XFX is one of the big dogs in the United States when it comes to NVIDIA based video card sales in the retail channel, along with EVGA and BFG Technologies. XFX has been a major ally of NVIDIA in good and bad times. They have bran... Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-11-2008 Category: Hardware Palit is a European and Asian based video card manufacturer that builds NVIDIA video cards, ATI video cards, motherboards and other computer equipment. They have built a name for themselves in Europe but have also begun selling vi...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-04-2008 Category: Hardware XFX has made a solid place for themselves in the VGA community and the dog has put many other companies in the dog house, especially when it comes to performance based VGA cards for the gamers who like top end products. The mid le...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-02-2008 Category: Hardware NVIDIA has had a massive amount of releases in the past few months and the last few weeks have seen an onslaught of VGA cards and the new 790 series motherboards. The 9800GX2 we reviewed last week was a really fast video card bein...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-07-2008 Category: Hardware ATI launched their HD3xxx series of cards late last year. The main impetus of the new cards was the features DirectX 10.1 and the new 55 nanometer process node. The performance rivaled that of the previous HD2900XT on their HD3870...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-21-2008 Category: Hardware NVIDIA’s new 9600GT card is targeted at the $199 and below price point and EVGA says this card should come in at $200-220. At this level of performance and pricing, the 9600GT competes against ATI’s HD3850 card and almost competes...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-20-2008 Category: Hardware The HD3850 is an interesting card in the grand scheme of ATI’s lineup and Diamond’s 512MB version of the card is also interesting in that the card lies right in the middle of the 3850 to HD3870 price range. The price for this card... Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-13-2008 Category: Hardware It has been a long drought for ATI in the high-end of the video card market. NVIDIA’s 8800 GTX has been the king of the video card market in terms of performance of single card solutions since its introduction over a year ago, wit...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 12-15-2007 Category: Hardware Wow another week went by and NVIDIA has already made its own card to compete with 8800GT, and it comes in the form of the new 8800GTS 512MB Edition. This comes in the wake of more than a few new releases that we have seen in the l...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 11-30-2007 Category: Hardware XFX is first out of the gates with the latest gunslinger for the NVIDIA family, the all new XFX Alpha Dog XXX 8800GT 256MB Edition card. This card is priced at the same level as the ATI 3870 and is rumored to be thee card to have ...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 11-25-2007 Category: Hardware Diamond has been making quite the comeback for themselves recently, it’s just a shame that ATI is in a slump and falling behind NVIDIA at every turn. The launch of the 2000 series added a bit of spark to an otherwise dull lineup o...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 10-29-2007 Category: Hardware EVGA is no stranger to the VGA game and unless you are just as green as fresh picked lettuce to the PC world you should know their name by now. EVGA is one of the strongest brand partners NVIDIA has, and is a company who is almost...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 05-25-2007 Category: Hardware The positives of the 8800 Ultra are that it is the fastest video card available bar none. The 8800 Ultra is an Overclocked 8800 GTX and performs as such. Video cards like the 8800 GTX and Ultra have the capability of doing DirectX...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-17-2007 Category: Hardware XFX and NVIDA have once again teamed up to bring us another outstanding product in the form of the 8600GTS as it has the right balance of performance versus price ratio. Overclocking seems to be very good as well as the card comes...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 02-28-2007 Category: Hardware The X1950XTX and X1950 Crossfire Edition cards are designed to work together and despite my misgivings about the Crossfire cable, the combination of a X1950 Crossfire Edition + X1900XTX or X1900XTX card work together well in both ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 02-12-2007 Category: Hardware The 7600GS from GIGABYTE is an interesting video card. Unfortunately, the card came bare with no bundle or accessories, and I had no HDMI capable monitor to test it with. With the proliferation of video cards on the market today s...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-02-2007 Category: Hardware The XFX GF 8800GTX 630M 768 M Dual DVI TV XXX Edition video cards is an interesting addition to XFX’s lineup. The card is overclocked over the standard 575MHz core/1.8GHz memory 8800GTX, but in many respects the card is CPU limite...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 12-28-2006 Category: Hardware The 8800GTX is the fastest single graphics card on the market today bar none. The performance with two of them just flat outperforms everything on the market and then some when it works. Two of these cards working together in SLI ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 12-13-2006 Category: Hardware The DIAMOND X1950 Pro is an interesting contrast to the other X1950 Pro from ASUS I reviewed recently. The card performs better in many respects, but as the cards are identically clocked, this could be due to the driver on the dri...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-20-2006 Category: Hardware The GIGABYTE 7900GS is an excellent card for the money in terms of today's performance and features, outperforming the 7900GT in many instances and outperforming ATI's X1950 Pro in many instances on the performance spectrum. This ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-09-2006 Category: Hardware The future is Microsoft Vista and Shader Model 4, and the GeForce 8800GTX is the first fully compliant Pixel and Vertex Shader 4 card on the market. That means even if you purchase the card today, it will allow you to play the gam...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 11-08-2006 Category: Hardware Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than ATI's most loaded, able to render millions of Pixels in a single bound, it's going to burn the comp, that's the plan and it's NVIDIA, yet once again. The GeForce 8800 series signal...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-06-2006 Category: Hardware This card sports a lot of surprises for a 7900GS card. The performance of the card is on par with the slightly more expensive 7900GT reference card, and that is a good thing. The ASUS EN7900GS TOP is available on Newegg's website ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-26-2006 Category: Hardware ATI's X1950XTX is supposed to be retailing for $449 as a MSRP. It is currently available at Newegg.com for $419, not a bad price for what you get. Performance in the high-end today is sufficient for high resolution gaming with ant...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-14-2006 Category: Hardware A big plus of the 7950GT is performance that rivals that of the 7900GT of earlier this year for $299, over $100 less than the MSRP of the 7900GT at launch. It is always interesting to see how video card manufacturers package their...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-07-2006 Category: Hardware With the announcement of the 7950GT and the 7900GS, NVIDIA looks to bring the 79xx series into the upper mid-range of the market with price points of $199 for the 7900GS. At this price point, you get all of the performance and fea...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-01-2006 Category: Hardware With the announcement of the AMD-ATI merger, the video card market is in a state of flux. The 7600GS is a good mainstream card, available on Newegg for $129.99 after a $20 mail-in rebate. For this price, you get 512MB of memory; d...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-26-2006 Category: Hardware The 7600GT supports all DirectX 9.0 features including Pixel Shader 3.0 and Vertex Shader 3.0. These are the features that one should look for when purchasing a video card today, as virtually every game released today require them...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-06-2006 Category: Hardware One thing that sets EVGA apart from other companies is the support EVGA puts behind each and every product they sell. If you go onto EVGA's message boards, it is clear that they care about the customer. Lifetime Warranty, 24/7 Tol...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 06-06-2006 Category: Hardware As far as sheer performance goes, all I can say is WOW! At this moment in time, the XFX 7950GX2 XXX Edition is unchallenged as the fastest single out of the box 3D card in existence and will challenge most SLI systems as well. Aft...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-05-2006 Category: Hardware The X1900XTX is the best available video card on the market today in terms of image quality. The ability to use HDR+MSAA in games like Oblivion makes the X1900XTX the choice for the discerning high-end consumer. I've always felt t...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-22-2006 Category: Hardware The 7800GT is still a great card for the high-end enthusiast. While it has been replaced in NVIDIA's lineup by the 7900GT, there currently isn't a higher performing card that's passively cooled. ASUS has done an admirable job with...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-05-2006 Category: Hardware ASUS has put together an excellent package with the X1600XT Silent. You get totally silent operation, the features you expect from a video card today and the performance to play games like Oblivion and F.E.A.R. at medium resolutio...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 04-17-2006 Category: Hardware Diamond has done a wonderful job with their X1900XTX card, in that the card is an ATI reference card through and through. Virtually every X1900XTX manufacturer has followed ATI's reference design for the X1900XTX cards, in PCB lay...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 04-04-2006 Category: Hardware The performance of two X1900s is simply mind-blowing when a game works with it properly. NVIDIA has a solution with four GPUs, Quad-SLI but this isn't on the market in any numbers as of yet and will cost the buyer 2x or more a Cro...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 03-25-2006 Category: Hardware The XFX 7600GS is a good example of what kind of performance you can expect from a mainstream video card today. And it's a good one. The card is on Newegg today for a price of $143, putting it squarely against a X1600XT in price c...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 03-17-2006 Category: Hardware So the bottom line on the card is this. A X1900XTX provides the best image quality experience bar none on the market today. I guess I have to make a decision as to where I rate the EAX 1900XTX card. At a retail price of $650, and ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 03-09-2006 Category: Hardware The spring lineup for NVIDIA cards is a strong one in many respects. The decreased die size of the chips compared to the last generation and the move to the 90 nanometer process, will likely combine to increase yields and lower ma...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 02-20-2006 Category: Hardware To my mind, the XFX XXX 6600 256MB card is the perfect upgrade for the casual gamer that is tired of using integrated graphics. The inclusion of a game like Far Cry which can showcase the features like Pixel Shaders and HDR on the...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 02-14-2006 Category: Hardware There's still an upgrade market for the AGP user. After all there's literally hundreds of millions of systems based upon the old standard still in use today. The 7800GS AGP Extreme Edition is positioned to take advantage of the fa...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 02-03-2006 Category: Hardware At the end of the day the ASUS EAX X1800XT TOP card is a good card that can hold its own in today's ever changing market, and although the X1900 series has arrived, the TOP X1800XT still rocks in the gaming world....
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-31-2006 Category: Hardware The A-I-W X1900 is quite simply the fastest most feature-rich multimedia video card you can buy today. For a MSRP of $499, you get great performance, features, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Premiere, a TV tuner a FM Radio and mo... Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-27-2006 Category: Hardware What you get with the X1600XT is full DirectX 9.0 Pixel and Vertex Shader 3.0 compliance, HDR support with Anti-Aliasing at the same time, high quality Anisotropic Filtering and Adaptive Antialiasing. These combine to give the bes...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-25-2006 Category: Hardware Overclocked, good looking and fast, that is my opinion of the new XXX 7800GT from XFX as it delivers what’s promised right out of the box. Package content is above the average and at least gives you a few decent game titles to wet... Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-13-2006 Category: Hardware 6800GS cards are retailing for under $200 online, which is a good buy as it has similar performance to the 6800GT which was so popular at $399 last year. This forced ATI and their partners to lower the MSRP of their X1600 Pro to $...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-01-2006 Category: Hardware Feature-wise the A-I-W 2006 fully supports Shader Model 3.0, HDR and is the equal of it's bigger brother, the X1800 in most respects. The inclusion of Adobe's Premiere Elements is a $99 value, and is an excellent video editing pro...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 12-06-2005 Category: Hardware Another point about ATI cards is the fact that I prefer the 2D of the X1800XL to the 2D on the 7800GTX or any 6800 series card. The text is noticeably clearer at 2048x1536 32-bit 60Hz on the X1800XL and a Samsung 19” CRT monitor. ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-29-2005 Category: Hardware NVIDIA has hit a home run with the 6800GS and the XFX version of the card is the best of them. With a stable overclock to 521MHz for the core/1.19GHz for the memory, the XFX 6800GS is an excellent buy for $249 MSRP. ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-21-2005 Category: Hardware Performance on the card is exemplary. The X1800XL core performs more or less on-par with NVIDIA's 7800GT, ATI's solution has the benefit of better performance with dynamic branching, but NVIDIA's solution has the benefit of a high...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-13-2005 Category: Hardware The 7800GTX 512MB is the fastest card I've ever seen, NVIDIA's 7800GTX 256MB card nearly provides the same performance as ATI's high-end, the X1800XT, but this card takes performance to the next level, nearly equaling two 7800GTs ...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 11-09-2005 Category: Hardware Things like the included bundle and the new Call of Duty 2 game deal are things that will even further a users interest when deciding in what card to purchase. XFX is one of the very few partners participating in the COD 2 campai...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-17-2005 Category: Hardware The new 7800GT cards are really a solid piece of equipment for gamers and Gigabyte does a good job of bringing theirs to market. A solid bundle and performance are what to expect with this one....
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-10-2005 Category: Hardware The new line of 7800GT cards is making quite the market sweep as they perform almost as good as their sibling the well touted 7800GTX. ASUS offers a solid card with adequate overclocking and a decent package....
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-13-2005 Category: Hardware ATI has always had the lion's share of market when it comes to home multimedia VGA cards and the new AIW PCIx X800XL continues in that trend. It has all the features that made the All-In-Wonder brand the choice of millions of cons...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-31-2005 Category: Hardware ASUS manufactures video cards from both NVIDIA and ATI chipsets. Last year NVIDIA launched the 6800 series of cards, with ASUS providing solutions for each announced product. In June, NVIDIA launched their next generation Shader M...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-29-2005 Category: Hardware The new 7800 series from NVIDIA is currently dominating the gaming arena as far as sheer performance and features go and the Gigabyte GV-NX78X256V-B is a solid addition to this lineup and offers a few things others have left out....
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-13-2005 Category: Hardware The new PCIe 7800GTX from XFX is a superb combination of performance and package contents. In SLI mode these cards have no peer. As a single card solution, 1280X1024 resolutions are handled easily with all the features turned to ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-24-2005 Category: Hardware The positives of the Chaintech 6600GT are the performance, the features, and the inclusion of Painkiller. Performance of the card in single and SLI mode is slightly above that of the XFX 6600GT cards I reviewed earlier this month....
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-16-2005 Category: Hardware XFX is a company that started making NVIDIA based video cards a couple of years ago. A relative newcomer as a manufacturer of video cards, XFX has made a name for itself as being one of the only companies that manufacture NVIDIA c...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-31-2005 Category: Hardware If you're looking for the highest performing video card setup on the market today, a SLI system is the way to go. Two 6800GTs provide higher performance than a single 6800 Ultra or a X850XT PE. ASUS's bundle, and high quality, mak...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-10-2005 Category: Hardware ATI has finally crossed the 256MB boundary, but does it really make all that much of a difference? We ran the ATI X800XL 512MB Edition through a gauntlet of tests and have all the information you need. This will be the first card ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-02-2005 Category: Hardware The first thing I noticed upon opening the box of the card was the cooling. Gigabyte installed a heat sink covering the VPU and a small portion of the PCB instead of a cooling fan and heat sink found on other cards. The card also ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 04-26-2005 Category: Hardware S3 was the very first company to actually have a VGA card claiming to be 3D compatible in the form of their S3 Virge chipset. Ten years later we still see S3 in the VGA game and this time they introduce the S18 Gamma Chrome series...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 03-21-2005 Category: Hardware What we have here is basically an overclocked X800 XT PE that although fast offers little room for overclocking as it is pushed to its extreme from the factory. Stable and compatible with both the latest Intel and AMD platforms th...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 03-10-2005 Category: Hardware As far as features go, the A-I-W X800XT is the most feature-rich multimedia video card on the market today. You get an excellent television tuner, the speed and features of one of the highest performing video cards on the market, ... |
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