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Written by WoobiaEroveva
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ATi has officially released Catalyst version 6.8 for it's lineup of graphics cards. The new relese includes a host of improvements resulting in significant performance boosts combined with increased stability.
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Written by WoobiaEroveva
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Quad SLi was announced over a year ago, but neither suitable motherboards nor drivers fit for the purpose have been released till date. However, following a press release from nVidia regarding quad SLi, it's only a matter of time till we see it in action!!
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Written by WoobiaEroveva
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In a shock move, AMD has announced that once it's takeover of ATi is finalised, the new company will just be called AMD.
In an interview at Custom PC,
Richard Baker, Marketing Manager for AMD in Northern Europe, said "'We haven't made any final decisions yet," he said. "But
I'd personally be very surprised if we dropped any of those product
names. The ATI company name is definitely going, though."
We cannot even speculate at this moment about future product names.
We feel AMD did this to win support from nVidia. They don't want to create a
hostile relationship with their closest supporters. Dropping the ATi name
brand will definitely get a sympathy vote from nVidia.
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If you are looking for a real cheap graphics solution, Albratron have a neat 6600 solution. Okay the technology is a bit long in the tooth now but if you don't have the salary of a premier division footballer, this might just be your ticket.
The Albatron PC6600Q2 is not for everybody, but if you are looking for a budget card under $100 that will be compatible with newer games, the 6600 GPU is a great solution. If you are looking to play HL2 or games of the like at higher resolutions, you may want to consider a 6800 or higher solution. For all around work related activities, this card performs like a champ and with dual monitors, the PC6600Q2 makes it a pleasure.
Specifications include nVidia GeForce 6600 GPU at 350mhz
Memory, 256mb DDR2 at 400mhz,
Max Resolution 2048x1536 @ 85Hz
Slot, PCI-Express
Interface, VGA, DVI, Video Out (S-Video and Component).
What more could you ask for?
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MSI has just released its NX7900GT-VT256E-HD which is HDCP compatible - this is the first HDCP-enabled PCI Express x16 videocard from that company. HDCP is a content protection specification to protect digital
entertainment content across the DVI/HDMI interface. The HDCP provides
a robust, cost-effective and transparent method for transmitting and
receiving digital entertainment similar to DVI/HDMI-compliant digital
displays. HDCP encrypts the data transmitted between the DVI/HDMI
connector on the graphics adapter and the display. To provide this
support, both the graphics adapter and the display need to have an HDCP
transmitter and receiver respectively.
The MSI NX7900GT-VT2D256E-HD videocard is backed up by 256MB of high speed GDDR3 memory. The videocard supports a whole host of TV output options including S-Video, Composite, Component output (Y, Pb, Pr) and the NX7900GT-VT2D256E-HD is also HDMI compatible if a DVI-to-HDMI cable is used. The videocard supports video input as well, which truely makes the MSI NX7900GT-VT256E-HD one of the best multimedia cards around on paper.
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Written by WoobiaEroveva
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With most 975X chipsets hitting a brick wall at around 400 MHz FSB, motherboards based on ATi's upcoming RD600 are probably the most anticipated piece of kit this year following Conroe. Announcements that Intel had pulled the plug on ATi's chipset licencing really created a stir among enthusiasts who though RD600 was DOA. However, we can confidently say that RD600 will go ahead as planned.
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Written by WoobiaEroveva
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ATi has recently released papers to its OEM partners regarding specifications and details of the new Radeon X1900 and X1950 cards.
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Written by WoobiaEroveva
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ATI has made a very cool decision (pun intended) which will affect their video card heatsinks. They have chosen to stop adding their stock coolers to some of
their regular shipments to AIB partners. They will still provide them
if video card makers choose to use them, but default shipments will not
contain coolers. ATI will possibly be able to sell the cards at a lower
price to AIB's, which is good for the end users. This will also give
ATI's partners the freedom and the opportunity to be more creative with
their cooling systems. That will give consumers more choices, better
cooling and headroom for overclocking.
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Written by WoobiaEroveva
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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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Written by WoobiaEroveva
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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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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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