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Powercolor X1900GT review

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With the competitive pace at which graphics cards for different segments of the market debut and move, the prices of these cards move along quite dynamically and a card that filled the USD$350 spot may be filling a USD$250 spot in a few months time. The USD$330-$350 spot strikes a very good price/performance chord with the power-users and gaming junkies... and ATi saw it fitting for them to try to secure this segment with the X1900GT.

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nForce 590 Intel edition to go head to head with Intel 975X

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It's a known fact that Intel makes the best chipsets for their own processors. No one else has been able to offer the same combination of speed and reliability of Intel chipsets. However all that could be about to change with the release of nVidia's new chipset dubbed nForce 590 SLi Intel edition. nVidia's last stab at making chipsets for Intel CPUs was with the nForce 4 chipset, and to be honest they didn't have much success with it. Appalling overclocking capabilities and stability issues were only some of the problems that the chipset was plagued with.

This time round, it seems that nVidia may have a winner. The chipset is aimed to compete with Intel's latest offering - the top of the line 975X chipset. The 975X has been around for a few months now and most of the bugs have been ironed out. However previews of the nForce 590 look promising. There are no boards at present which utilise the new chipset, but fortunately AnandTech have been able to run a few tests on a pre release reference board. The chipset supports all previous Intel LGA775 CPUs and is reported to support the upcoming range of Core 2 Duo CPUs.

We'll keep you updated and will hopefully be able to torture a sample pretty soon, so stay tuned!!

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HIS X1800GTO IceQ3 Turbo 256MB Graphics Card Review at MaXit

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If you need a graphics card for some performance gaming, the HIS X1800 series of graphics cards offers plenty of bang for very little of the green stuff. HIS Digital have corner ed a niche for themselves by offering quality cards with fantastic cooling systems. The IceQ cooling system replaces the stock cooler found on reference designs and offers clever design features to help keep noise down and hot air outside your case. The question is, are HIS cards worth the price premium, alebit a small one, over stock reference models...

Find out in our latest review!

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Sapphire quietly launches the X1800GTO²

Sapphire, well-known as a long standing ATi partner and supplier of quality graphics, recently started shipping units of their X1800GTO² graphics cards to world-wide outlets.

Sapphire introduced the GTO² line with their X800 boards. The GTO² brand is popular with hardware enthusiasts thanks to its price, overclocking, and its high potential for unlocking extra pipelines. Many X800GTO² cards were actually X850XT PEs with better memory in disguise. All you have to do to convert your X800GTO² into a very powerful X850XT PE, is to simply use a BIOS mod. At this point, we don’t know much about the possible hidden performance of this card but we'll let you know as soon as we get our hands on a sample to torture.

We can confirm that this is a PCI Express card with 512Mb of RAM (256bit) and has VIVO capabilities. According to our sources, the price is going to be around to $200-300.

You can read an early article with a round up of cards including this one over at the google translator.

The original French version is here - Ooh La La!

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Asus EN7900GT-TOP Geforce 7900GT PCI Express videocard Review

Now this looks like a sexy videocard if ever I saw one. Asus make some great components with a good committment to providing hardware enthusiasts with the latest technology to overclock. Their motherboards are highly recommended supporting overclocking out of the box along with innovative features. Okay, you do tend to pay a price premium for Asus kit but the quality shows. PCSTATS have a look at the EN7900GT. The card make look bananas with a big picture of King Kong on the cooler but you can bet they don't feed it peanuts!

"The 256MB Asus EN7900GT TOP/2DHT/256M/A videocard is compatible only with PCI Express x16 slots so that means AGP users needs to get their fix elsewhere. The game comes with a large software bundle which includes a full copy of King Kong, two DVI to analog converters, a component output cable and a six pin molex power connector should your power supply not natively support the new generation of high powered videocards."

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Asus EAX1900 XTX 512MB Graphic Card Review at MaXit

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Another day, another graphics card upgrade. We can't help wondering why people buy a £400 graphics card to play a £30 game that lasts for a little under 10 hours. That's £43 a hour. Crazy eh. You could have a wild weekend with enough debauchery to leave you recounting tales to your mates down the local for the next six months. Go on, treat your joystick and head down to Spearmint Rhino's to gawp at the babes while they gyrate round your lap rubbing baby oil into your trousers. Best thing is you'd still have enough change to buy the latest Sugar Babes cd to throw at your neighbours cat. Or you could just spend £400 on a graphics card that will be obsolete in a few months time.

Decisions, decisions. Should you spend the money on the latest hardware powerhouse from the graphic card stables of ASUS or stuff it down some nubile blondes knickers as she manoveurs around your manhood. It's a big dilemma for every hardware enthusiast but don't worry, this review might just help you decide. Read on.

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XFX GeForce 7900GT 256MB XXX Extreme Edition Review

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XFX have done it again, setting the standard for other manufacturers to follow. If you are in the market for a graphics card to run all your games at maximum eye candy, look no further! The XFX 7900 GT Extreme Edition is a graphics card of biblical performance.

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Ageia PhysX processor

Fancy some graphical physics that'll blow you away? Ageia's PhysX PPU board is set to be the hottest thing since Duke Nukems shrink ray gun.

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NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Graphics Card Review

Adrian's Rojak Pot has just posted the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT Graphics Card Review!

"If you loved the performance and value of the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT, you will fall in love with the new NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT. Not only is it fast, it's also very affordable. A gamer's dream come true. Check out the review and find out why!"

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Mobile GPU Comparrison Guide

Adrian and his cooking pot show us the finer points of picking the next notebook based on GPU performance.

Many moons ago. Adrian's Rojack Pot started a guide to help us all with distinguishing different mobile GPUs. Although it didn't get much mention around here. I think the new one deserves a bit more credit. After dozens of revisions, they have come up with a decent list (dubbed v5.2 by them). You can read the full article here.

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Saphire Radeon X1800GTO Review

New indepth 89 page review for the new Radeon X1800GTO up at Hexus.net.

"For just under £170 where you can find it in stock in the UK the Radeon X1800 GTO is an interesting proposition. On the one hand it's a hot, noisy board that's matched by 7600 GT performance wise, dulling its appeal, while on the other hand it's able to offer higher overall IQ if that's what you covet. Depends how much you crave the best looking pixels since that's where ATI beat NVIDIA these days."

I think this wins the award for the most boring review ever