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  • Sapphire Technology Radeon X1600 Pro HDMI 256MiB

    18 July 2006, 08:53

    You need to consider the entire package that's on offer here and not just the price. With that in mind, it makes decent sense for those looking to make the ...

  • BFG Tech GeForce 7900 GT, 7900 GTX and 7600 GT OC™

    8 July 2006, 07:38

    BFG Tech were gracious enough to provide their OC™ examples of all three products, two-up for some SLI testing. BFG are staid factory overclockers with the majority of its gamer-led ...

  • HIS X1300 512MiB HyperMemory with 128MiB DDR2 x1 PCIe

    6 July 2006, 14:24

    £50 or so will buy you a faster graphics accelerator from ATI or NVIDIA, but they can't match the versatility of HIS' X1300 x1 PCIe card. A product for a ...

  • Complete ATI Radeon X1600 Roundup - Got £100 for a card? Read this!

    28 June 2006, 10:24

    Today we're venturing into the world of the level headed; the sensible enthusiast. Or perhaps the realist. It's a land where something around £100 will get you a new graphics ...

  • PowerColor Radeon X1900 XT 512MB, SAPPHIRE Radeon X1900 XT & X1900 XTX 512MB

    13 June 2006, 11:42

    ATI's Radeon X1900 family is what the X1800 range should have been on launch day. We can recommend both the PowerColor and SAPPHIRE X1900 XT 512MB cards, based on comparative ...

  • Sapphire Radeon X1600 XT Ultimate Edition 256MB

    8 June 2006, 03:41

    Sapphire dubs this variant of ATi's RADEON X1600 XT as its Ultimate Edition. Replete with double-sided heatsink and near-silent operation; if you've got around £100 to spend on a midrange ...

  • GeForce 7900 GT and GTX mini-roundup: eVGA and XFX

    7 June 2006, 07:09

    We haven't managed to round up every last offering from all vendors (as much as I'd love to evaluate 30 GeForces!), but to kick off our quest for that particular ...

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2

    5 June 2006, 14:18

    So does today's review focus -- NVIDIA's brand new GeForce 7950 GX2 -- change enough to do the job that GeForce 7900 GTX hasn't, dethroning Radeon X1900 XTX as the ...

  • S3 Graphics Chrome S27 including MultiChrome

    20 May 2006, 10:15

    Definitely last-gen in terms of D3D9 Shader Model support, S27 makes up for it by using Fujitsu's 90nm low-k manufacturing to clock the chip as high as 700MHz. Paired with ...

  • Galaxy GeForce 7600 GS 256 GDDR3

    14 May 2006, 07:54

    Galaxy rock up with a GeForce 7600 GS designed to shake up the establishment. Laughing at 7600 GS's reference clocks, its also dumped the obnoxious little reference cooler and attached ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX, 7900 GT and 7600 GT Preview

    9 March 2006, 14:05

    What follows is a fairly in-depth technical discussion of the base architecture common to G71 and G73. Then you'll find talk on G71 and G73 themselves before a look at ...

  • Futuremark 3DMark06 Analysis

    4 March 2006, 10:14

    The launch of Futuremark's 3DMark06, its latest 'Gamer's Benchmark', has thrown up all manner of questions and concerns about the benchmark itself, Futuremark as a company, the changes facing consumer ...

  • ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon X1900

    21 February 2006, 00:37

    The concept of multi-function, multimedia devices such as ATI All-In-Wonder have an inherent appeal to this writer and, for the most part, I’ve been largely impressed with ATI’s most recent ...

  • ATI Radeon X1900 XT Shootout - SAPPHIRE versus PowerColor

    17 February 2006, 13:49

    ATI's Radeon X1900 family is what the X1800 range should have been on launch day. We can recommend both the PowerColor and SAPPHIRE X1900 XT 512MB cards, based on comparative ...

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP Launch Preview

    2 February 2006, 14:11

    Who remembers AGP? Hands up! Ah, just the two of you, thought as much.

    You'd be forgiven for thinking that'd be the way such a conversation with ...

  • ATI Radeon X1900 XT and XTX

    24 January 2006, 00:54

    There are significant differences in how R580 goes about the business of data processing, compared to R520. Be under no illusions; R580 ain't no simple R520 speed bump.... It's those ...

  • ATI Radeon X1300 PRO and X1600 XT

    21 January 2006, 00:06

    The best offerings in the X1300 and X1600 range are what we look at today, as the markers for their sub markets, so join us as we analyse RV515 and ...

  • ASUSTeK EAX1800XT TOP

    17 January 2006, 22:52

    ... let's have a peek and see how close ASUSTeK get to really pleasing the enthusiast with muchos dinero to drop on the latest and greatest...check out whether the ATi ...

  • Gigabyte GV-RX18L256V-B Radeon X1800 XL 256MB

    20 December 2005, 09:56

    Gigabyte, then, has simply taken a reference ATI Radeon X1800 XL 256MB board and packaged it up with its own bundle. The net result is a proposition, when considered against ...

  • ATI Avivo Winter 2005 Update

    16 December 2005, 19:17

    Splash the cash on a Radeon X1000-series and you'll get deinterlacing performance that's equal to the last gen (and pretty much sucks on old Radeon, so some discerning tests will ...

  • ATI Radeon X1800 Crossfire

    15 December 2005, 18:32

    Radeon X1800 XT Crossfire was always on the cards, bringing the SuperAA and performance acceleration enhancements to that product, but the big question is have the downsides of the first ...

  • NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS Preview

    9 December 2005, 09:46

    As demonstrated, the GeForce 6800 GS is a SKU that fits in right where NVIDIA say it does. Matching the old GT for performance pretty much everywhere, the roughly £150 ...

  • ASUS EAX1800XL 256MB & HIS Excalibur X1800 XL 256MB PCIe graphics cards

    6 December 2005, 19:07

    ATI's Radeon X1800 XL GPU has enough going for it to be worthy of recommendation in the <£300 pricing bracket. ASUS and HIS take reference cards and dress them up ...

  • eVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX BlackPearl 512MB

    30 November 2005, 10:06

    However, we've also found out recently that, regardless of price, there is a market, however small, for boutique bits of PC hardware. The ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual is one such ...

  • eVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX BlackPearl 512MB Snapshot

    25 November 2005, 21:33

    A standard, always-available clock level of 600/900 makes for drool-worthy performance, with even more possible if you fancy getting your hands dirty with the likes of RivaTuner. In short, it's ...

  • XFX GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB DDR3 XXX Edition

    24 November 2005, 09:50

    There's a new King of Consumer Graphics in town, and he goes by the name of GeForce 7800 GTX 512. NVIDIA's latest high-end hardware creation pairs a tweaked G70 and ...

  • ATI All-In-Wonder X1800 XL - First Hands-On Look

    23 November 2005, 06:21

    Hardcore gamers and well-off speed merchants will want to get some of the action. But so, too, will a bunch of other folk. The list includes those wanting to enjoy ...