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  • PCI Express - technology backgrounder

    28 May 2005, 00:00

    Increasing numbers of motherboards carry PCI Express slots. James Morris explains why this new serial bus standard is replacing the older PCI parallel bus and how the move benefits video ...

  • Review: ASUS Extreme N6800Ultra/2DT

    15 May 2005, 00:00

    ASUS hasn\'t done anything really wrong with the EN6800 Ultra card, but it\'s let an opportunity go begging to design the ultimate GeForce 6800 Ultra, one that would use a ...

  • The game developer’s challenge

    10 May 2005, 00:00

    I’ve been worried as of late. No, it’s not the war in Iraq, or the scratch in my car; the cats and kids are fine. No, I’m worried about the ...

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  • Review: PNY Verto GeForce 6600 GT 128MB AGP

    7 May 2005, 00:00

    PNY's effort, by dint of its bundle and warranty, is a pretty good choice for those who have <£150 to spend on a graphics card right now, although the addition ...

  • HEXUS.beans :: World Exclusive :: ATi Multi Video Processing Unit details emerge

    6 May 2005, 00:00

    Based on information from a number of sources, HEXUS can exclusively reveal details about ATi’s dual-card technology for Multi Video Processing units (MVP).

  • Review: The introduction of 512MiB consumer graphics hardware

    4 May 2005, 00:00

    Overall, and I say this for the average consumer with a decent LCD rather than a very high end CRT, 512MiB hardware is future looking, moreso than a purchase for ...

  • Review: ATI's Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP and Club3D's Radeon X800 XL AGP

    25 April 2005, 00:00

    Club3D's example doesn't go overboard on the bundle, however you do get a great game and the cables you're given are sufficient to make good use of the VIVO ability ...

  • Jon Peddie April '05: All about getting parallel

    9 April 2005, 00:00

    According to common wisdom Moore’s Law allows us to scale up in the number of transistors used in a given space and increase operating frequencies, resulting in more functionality and ...

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  • Review: FIRST LOOK : AMD GPU!!

    1 April 2005, 00:00

    It’s going to have roughly the transistor count of a pair of current 130nm Athlon FX processors. It also looks like it can share vertex load with a dual core ...

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  • Review: GeCube's Radeon X850 XT Uniwise

    31 March 2005, 00:00

    So while I wait for the hardware I described on the first page of this article, GeCube\'s X850 XT will do nicely. For the performance, it\'s hard to argue with ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: ATI Celebrate 20 years in style

    16 March 2005, 00:00

    ATI have shown the ultimate in exhibitionism and hired themselves an ENTIRE hall. Yep, Halle 27 is ATI world. Decked out in corporate red, ATI show of their goods safe ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: XFX go Extreme with Smart Car

    16 March 2005, 00:00

    Primary cooling is water based, with the biggest radiator you’ve ever seen fitted to the front to optimise airflow. Further cooling is provided by two internal 80mm fans hidden behind ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: S3's OmniChrome can't be sold in the UK?

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    S3's graphics guru, Nadeem Mohammed, is the kind of infectious tech dude that you will to succeed, simply because he's such a smart guy in a struggling outfit that he ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: SLI running with odd BIOS ROMs at Prolink's stand

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    If you wander over to Prolink's stand at CeBit, you'll not only see NVIDIA's nForce4 for Pentium 4 on their stand, using EPoX's 5NVA+ SLI mainboard, but you'll also see ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: PixelView champions MXM

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    MXM has no uptake? Tell that to PixelView, the Taiwanese company showing off no less than five MXM designs using brand new NVIDIA graphics processors.

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  • CEBIT 2005: GeForce 6200 AGP using BR2

    15 March 2005, 00:00

    Just a quick one from me. There are a few 6200 AGP boards on show at NVIDIA's partners, here at CeBit in Halle 24. Inno3D have one up for example, ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: NVIDIA's Party on Saturday Night

    14 March 2005, 00:00

    This is my first time at CeBit and before I flew out, the two things everyone told me were "you need good walking shoes" and "NVIDIA's party is not to ...

  • CEBIT 2005: ASUS - Dual Graphics

    14 March 2005, 00:00

    You'll have seen the first of the two boards in this picture all over the web recently. It looks like it's only going to be a limited run product for ...

  • CEBIT 2005: Gainward CoolFX SLI Graphics

    13 March 2005, 00:00

    What's better than two graphics cards in SLI mode? Why, that'd be two watercooled graphics cards in SLI mode. We've got a couple of pictures in from CeBIT of Gainward's ...

  • Interview with ATI's Godfrey Cheng - It's all about the beans

    11 March 2005, 00:00

    In my line of work, ATI's Director of Marketing for Multimedia Products, Godfrey Cheng, is someone you have to meet. Utterly infectious enthusiasm, not just for the products that he's ...

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  • CEBIT 2005: XFX DUAL 6800 Ultras with 512MB per card!

    10 March 2005, 00:00

    Oh yes, you can rely on us to bring you the good stuff. Over here at CeBIT, the mighty (and rather impressive) XFX stand is showing off the very latest ...

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  • Review: ATI ALL-IN-WONDER X800 XT

    8 March 2005, 00:00

    ATI\'s Multimedia team took the time to get right a product that will appeal to many. Expensive in X800 XT guise (there are other X800 AIWs which I\'ll talk about ...

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  • NVIDIA and Apparent SLi on P4 (C19)

    1 March 2005, 00:00

    It is no secret that the high end parts are not volume in any market; the reason they are made is for 2 key reasons – for the enthusiast and ...

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  • Review: ATI's Radeon X800 256MB and Radeon X850 PRO Preview

    9 February 2005, 00:00

    Both make a compelling case for themselves in terms of performance, features and manufacturer pricing. It's whether that pricing rings true and availability holds for long enough to grab one.

  • Review: NVIDIA's GeForce Go 6600 and GeForce Go 6200 Launch

    8 February 2005, 00:00

    It\'s speedy mid-range graphics with a power-optimised bent, in skinny notebooks, for gaming and good video on the move.

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  • Review: MSI NX6600-VTD128E Diamond

    6 February 2005, 00:00

    With all of our testing complete, we can see that the NX6600-VTD128E Diamond follows in the footsteps of the GeForce 6600 boards which have come before it, in that it ...

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  • Review: GeCube SilenCool X700 PRO 256MB

    1 February 2005, 00:00

    To sum up: GeCube pull off silent X700 PRO running with aplomb, for competetive money, by not going overboard on the bundle. If it lies in your price range and ...

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  • Review: XFX GeForce 6600 GT Dual-DVI

    29 January 2005, 00:00

    I'm struggling to find a bad word to say about XFX's GeForce 6600 GT 128MB package. That's enough for it to earn a commendation from us.

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  • Review: Gigabyte 3D1

    27 January 2005, 00:00

    Before I even touch on the real-world feasibility of the 3D1, I have to say this - The technology is cool. No matter how logically you try to look at ...

  • ATI Interview - Matt Skyner

    20 January 2005, 00:00

    Matt's answers to our questions basically tell you two things. Firstly, ATI are constantly battling to balance demand against concrete orders at their foundry partners, in order to get the ...

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  • Review: ATI's Mobility Radeon X700 Launch

    19 January 2005, 00:00

    PowerPlay, ATI's hardware and software combo for such trickery on the mobile side, gets a bump to version 5.0, bringing with it the ability to dynamically reconfigure the PCI Express ...

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  • Review: MSI's NX6600GT-TD128E

    19 January 2005, 00:00

    As a single board in isolation, MSI\'s 6600 GT makes a great case for itself. A fantastic software bundle, component video out for use with HDTV sets in the main, ...

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  • Review: ATI CATALYST 5.1 Performance Analysis

    18 January 2005, 00:00

    A new year, another month, another CATALYST release from ATI. Yes, it\'s that time again, where the Canadian company releases the latest in their monthly driver updates, and ATI users ...

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