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  • CTS - 2006 :: Windows Vista to be delayed again, according to MS

    11 May 2006, 13:16

    Is Vista - the latest version of Windows - going to be delayed even further? Judging by presentations being given by Microsoft at CTS, the answer is probably, "yes"

  • Sapphire adds GT model to its Radeon HD X1900 range

    8 May 2006, 20:12

    Right at the top of ATI's current spread of GPUs is the Radeon HD X1900. Slotting in at the bottom of the X1900 range is the GT.

  • Review: Sapphire TOXIC Radeon X1900 XTX

    8 May 2006, 17:48

    The reference cooler ATI equipped their Radeon X1800 XT and Radeon X1900 XT/XTX with is effective, there's no doubting that. Cools the chip well, actively cools the memory; job is ...

  • Review: Ageia PhysX PPU

    4 May 2006, 11:59

    The acceleration of game physics, and I use the terms acceleration and physics broadly, is a hot topic for gamers and developers alike. Hardware acceleration of various physics APIs has ...

  • Clearly clocked 7900s from XFX

    28 April 2006, 19:20

    ...with VIVO too.

  • OS X n XP dual-boot Macs selling retail

    25 April 2006, 14:08

    After Apple introduced its Boot Camp dual-boot utility, it had to happen - and US online reseller MacMall is the first company we've heard of offering Intel-based Macs with Windows ...

  • Fancy Quad SLI but don't want the cost of a complete system?

    24 April 2006, 18:42

    The Chassis and PSU are the most important bit for these systems; these cards are LONG very long. The AKASA Eclipse 62 is one of the only chassis which will ...

  • Review: Sapphire Radeon X1800 GTO

    24 April 2006, 15:43

    With NVIDIA's AIB partners offering versions of GeFroce 7600 GT at even higher clocks for sensible money, NVIDIA seem to have the ˜£150 mid-range market to themselves. ATI's counter offensive ...

  • Scale this

    18 April 2006, 09:24

    Amdahl’s law says that it is the algorithm that decides the speedup and not the number of processors, and you eventually reach a place where parallelization doesn’t buy you anything, ...

  • ATI Catalyst 6.4

    12 April 2006, 18:51

    It's April, and that means episode four of the Catalyst story for the year. In this release comes a video conversion utility for MCE, video quality improvements, performance improvements and ...

  • Gecube throws its HDMI cards into the ring

    11 April 2006, 12:27

    Support for the latest in multimedia interfaces, HDMI, is slowly growing. From the graphics card market, ATI-based cards seem to be the ones we hear about the most, with GeCube ...

  • Linux drivers for ATI Radeon X1K on their way

    10 April 2006, 15:49

    While ATI remain comitted to monthly Catalyst driver releases for Windows, Linux users seem to have less faith in support for their OS. ATI could change all that, however.

  • Overclocked out of the box: Sapphire's Blizzard X1900XTX

    10 April 2006, 13:58

    Cast your mind back to our coverage of CeBIT and you might remember us showing you Sapphire's up-coming watercooled Radeon X1900XTX, by the name of Blizzard. A US release is ...

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  • ATI's ninja programmer, 'Chuck', speaks about Oblivion driver

    9 April 2006, 11:19

    ATI's 'Chuck' has agreed to an exclusive interview with HEXUS to explain how the patch works (and totally debunk my initial analysis!) in a technical sense. But not before answering ...

  • Interview with Sapphire CEO K D Au

    7 April 2006, 09:39

    We often hear about the battles between ATI and NVIDIA but, in his first press interview for four years, Sapphire's CEO K D Au tells an insider's story

  • Review: PowerColor Radeon X1300 HyperMemory 2

    7 April 2006, 09:29

    It's been over two years since we first reviewed a PowerColor graphics card. In that time Tul's graphics card brand has cemented its position as a shortlist choice for anyone ...

  • ATI prepare driver to enable HDR rendering and anti-aliasing in Oblivion

    6 April 2006, 21:34

    A mysterious ATI driver developer known only to the world as 'Chuck' has hax0red teh drivar megahurtz to allow Radeon X1K boards to render Oblivion in 'HDR' rendering mode with ...

  • X1600XT pricing levels with 7600GS

    4 April 2006, 19:35

    ATI is bringing its X1600XT pricing into line with NVIDIA's 7600GS here in the UK, making it the more appealing option, they reckon.

  • New 7600 GS from Point of View, but what's with the heatpipe?

    24 March 2006, 16:35

    Point of View has launched its latest graphics card, the 7600 GS, with models featuring 256MiB and a buffer-tastic 512MiB of RAM.

  • XFX doesn’t pull its punches at CeBIT 2006

    24 March 2006, 14:25

    But the big focus of XFX’s stand is the three punch bags, each displaying their impressive range of graphics cards and their Revo RAID cards.

  • Review: NVIDIA Quad-SLI Intro Analysis

    23 March 2006, 10:29

    NVIDIA recently announced Quad SLI at CES, partnering with Dell to show the four GPU extension of their SLI technology to a waiting world. SLI, or Scaleable Link Interface, is ...

  • Review: ATI FireGL V7350 Early Preview

    20 March 2006, 16:22

    With the genlock hardware not available until the second half of this year, uptake for the V7350 is initially going to lie in the 3D modelling and CAD/CAM markets. And ...

  • MSI turn up the heat...literally

    13 March 2006, 22:35

    MSI show off the burn in process they put their latest kit through

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  • PowerColor exhibit watercooled Crossfire

    13 March 2006, 21:58

    Water definitely seems like a popular way to deal with the heat output from Crossfire, and PowerColor's Evo2 system is designed (at least initially) for their Crossfire X1600 XT product.

  • GeForce 6800 GS gets a double-sized framebuffer

    13 March 2006, 21:57

    512MiB on a graphics card almost seems common, so Point of View announcing a 6800 GS with that framebuffer size almost passed me by.

  • MSI show off new dual-core Intel and AMD laptops

    13 March 2006, 21:57

    I'm a big fan of MSI's 12 inch laptop chassis, so to see it sporting Intel Core Duo and dual-core Turion (unannounced, ooh!) on Socket S1 makes my geek sense ...

  • 7600 GS? 7600 GS!

    13 March 2006, 21:57

    With NVIDIA only releasing 7600 GT recently, brains got round to thinking about whether they'd flesh out the 7600 range with anything else. GS and GTX are the prime candidates, ...

  • GeCube pair RV530s on same PCB, Gemini breaks cover

    13 March 2006, 21:57

    Dual chip Radeon X1600 has appeared on GeCube's stand, the Taiwanese vendor pairing two RV530s on the same PCB to create a single-board Crossfire product, codenamed Gemini.

  • Galaxy outdo all others with new NVIDIA bits and bobs

    13 March 2006, 21:57

    I've been harping on about NVIDIA's reference cooler for 7600 GT and 7900 GT being a bit pants for all of CeBIT, as I cover the other vendors.

  • Arctic Cooling develop product for 7900 GTX

    13 March 2006, 21:56

    With GeForce 7900 GTX barely days old, it was slightly surprising to see Arctic Cooling demo their upcoming Accelero X3 (unconfirmed name), suitable for 7900 GTX (and one presumes 7800 ...

  • Come play hard with the XFX babes

    13 March 2006, 17:14

    Last year XFX wowed the crowds at CeBIT 2005 with their redneck stylee, ‘PC Garage’, this year they’ve gone for an altogether different approach with a locker room stand… and ...

  • AOpen takes Core Duo to i975X and Crossfire

    12 March 2006, 14:40

    AOpen are showing off what's possibly the most interesting mainboard at CeBit, outside of new Socket AM2 designs for AMD processors.

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  • NVIDIA set to kill off ULI brand name?

    12 March 2006, 12:07

    NVIDA seems to have buried the Voodoo brand after its acquisition of 3DFX and looks set to be doing the same to the ULI brand