17 November 2005, 09:49
In summary, then, XFX's GeForce 6600 DDR2 256MB card provides more-than decent performance for the £80 asking price. Add to this the high-quality bundle and immediate availability and we have ...
14 November 2005, 14:01
In article 3603 for HEXUS, I waxed lyrical about the ATI Radeon X1800 XT. Very late, and more than a bit hot and noisy, it's still a GPU that kicks ...
11 November 2005, 14:20
What we've learned today is that both ATI and NVIDIA's partners know how to put a decent package together. Both cards, although expensive, offer something the other doesn't, and neither ...
29 October 2005, 16:42
Both card packages offer compelling reasons for purchase but given a direct choice between the two, our money would slide over into XFX's corner for a number of reasons. Its ...
14 October 2005, 09:44
So, in summary, we've looked at a couple of PowerColor X800 GT cards and have come away with the feeling that whilst both offer something new in the marketplace, the ...
11 October 2005, 17:51
A recent headline article on HEXUS introduced the ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual in a hands-on preview of the first single-board SLI product to use NVIDIA G70. ASUS had previously tried ...
5 October 2005, 13:54
This initial gloss over the tech, board evaluation and performance snapshot should have you salivating at the thought of buying a 3D accelerator in the near future. Radeon 1800 XT, ...
4 October 2005, 18:33
Both Connect3D and GECUBE have launched competitive Radeon X800 GTO 256MB cards that offer something different to the consumer. If you're inclined to meddle with VIVO and want a midrange ...
30 September 2005, 08:44
Evaluated as a purely default card, the SAPPHIRE X800 GTO² 256MB doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's priced at around £20 above a number of X800 GTOs that ...
29 September 2005, 11:17
You could almost reduce the 6800GT/X850 Pro battle to the flip of a coin, but the simple fact is both with play any currently available game well, so PowerColor's X850 ...
28 September 2005, 01:44
Priced at £129.99, the financial cost of having a passively-cooled card is a £10 or so premium over a regular ATI Radeon X800 GT0 256MB card. Is it worth it? ...
26 September 2005, 00:00
Crossfire was always set to launch before the next generation of ATI graphics processors and with those launching in a week or so it was time for Crossfire systems to ...
22 September 2005, 00:00
The PixelView 7800 GTX has everything going for it that any other 7800 GTX has. You\'ll have one of the fastest graphics cards money can buy, and at the time ...
20 September 2005, 00:00
I've mentioned in public recently that R520 isn't all about the performance. This is why.
2 September 2005, 00:00
At one point in recent months, a driver for the GeForce 6-series of products has introduced worse texture filtering. The hard launch of GeForce 7800 GTX and the Release 75 ...
27 August 2005, 00:00
If you want a single board that does 3D and media tuning that comes with good software, and your budget means you\'re happy with the mid-range 3D performance and price ...
18 August 2005, 00:00
CrossFire compatibility, or the lack of it, may be a concern for a few, and we doubt that we'll be seeing an AGP incarnation in the near future, so not ...
12 August 2005, 00:00
Users looking to upgrade to a £100-£110 PCI-Express GPU would do well to seriously consider SAPPHIRE's X800 GT Hybrid 256MB card. AGP users will need to wait, though, and the ...
11 August 2005, 00:00
It's the same price as ATI's current best, performs as well in games and does significantly better in almost every other facet that you'd consider. More forward-looking features, less heat, ...
6 August 2005, 00:00
Is the ABIT Fatal1ty X800 XL 512MB graphics card the best X800 XL 512MB-class card we've come across thus far? how does it square up a bang for buck basis ...
3 August 2005, 00:00
What's abundantly clear in our look at three retail GeForce 7800 GTX graphics cards is that there is no such thing as a bad one. All three cards from BFG, ...
1 August 2005, 00:00
My evaluation of such low-end hardware using the latest graphically challenging games might seem pointless at first glance. Look twice and you'll see that while both HyperMemory and TurboCache boards ...
28 July 2005, 00:00
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with Crucial's ATI RADEON X850 XT 256MB PCI-Express card; it's reference all the way. The killer is the price, and we urge Crucial to re-evaluate its ...
14 July 2005, 00:00
You need to evaluate what you require in a graphics card. On the one hand, XFX's GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB makes a compelling case as a cheap, relatively-speaking, workstation-class card, ...
12 July 2005, 00:00
Our recent trip to Canada wasn't all fun and Grand Prix watching. David and I had business to do, and products to be briefed on. Following ATI's release of the ...
12 July 2005, 00:00
What do you want from a £290 video card today? Is it performance, performance, and yet more performance in present games, or is it a deal of futureproofing at the ...
5 July 2005, 00:00
Using pre-release device drivers with Supertiling enabled, which seems to be the default mode for ATI Crossfire under Direct3D, indicates that presently NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra SLi is faster. However ...
22 June 2005, 00:00
All-in, a solid improvement to an excellent architecture. NVIDIA balance ALU increases with ROP considerations to create a formidable pixel pusher that currently has no equal. 7800 GTX boards can ...
20 June 2005, 00:00
HEXUS.net has managed to get an early peak at the latest ATI Catalyst report which covers features made available in Catalyst releases and gives you the ‘heads up’ on upcoming ...
14 June 2005, 00:00
HEXUS recently had the chance to visit ASUSTeK's Research & Development labs in their new Headquarters. We sniffed out their dual 6800GT and Ultra cards to bring you pictures and ...
13 June 2005, 00:00
GeCube's X800XLA-VIVO is based on a successful VPU but doesn't make full use of it. Ideally, what I'd like to see is an AGP model outfitted with Uni-Wise cooling and ...
31 May 2005, 00:00
There\'s a whole bunch of stuff yet to be answered that ATI don\'t cater for in the press docs handed out to hacks like me. I\'ll cover those both in ...
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 ...
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