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  • XFX GeForce 8800 GTX 768MiB

    8 November 2006, 18:58

    So my Christmas shopping list just got one item longer, and my family will be taking out second mortgages to afford the graphics card and quad-core CPU I now so ...

  • XFX GeForce 7950 GT XXX Edition

    7 November 2006, 08:33

    In summary, a product whose appeal is limited to a minority of people. If you happen to be one of them, this card is a current no-brainer.

  • Inno3D GeForce 7950 GT 512MB Zalman Edition

    6 November 2006, 08:10

    In summary, then, £200 will buy you a better GeForce 7950 GT 512MiB card for your money, with a higher-quality warranty and stocked at a wider range of e-tailers. The ...

  • XFX 7950GT Extreme Edition Passive 512MB

    25 October 2006, 08:28

    The XFX 7950GT Extreme Edition Passive delivers precisely what you'd expect for a 7950GT with slightly increased core and memory clocks.

  • Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 256MiB

    17 October 2006, 11:04

    The Radeon X1950 Pro, then, nudges the present midrange graphics-card balance in favour of ATI.

  • Foxconn GeForce 7950 GT

    9 October 2006, 10:11

    We mooted the idea of special signature boards bearing the Foxconn logo to the VGA product manager earlier in the year, wondering if they were going to go down that ...

  • ATI Radeon X1650 PRO 3-way shootout

    4 October 2006, 08:59

    Radeon X1650 PRO is an easy one to explain, thankfully. Think Radeon X1600 XT but with slightly higher clocks and you're bang on, ATI asking its AIB partners to pretty ...

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT head-to-head - XFX vs eVGA

    22 September 2006, 08:43

    Give the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 product line a shufti and you'll see a 4-wide group of base SKUs that fill pretty much the bottom rung of the company's PCI Express ...

  • Radeon X1300 XT GDDR3 duel - Sapphire vs. GeCube

    21 September 2006, 09:10

    GeCube and Sapphire step into the ring with overclocked X1300 XTs, battling with the weapons of clock speed, construction and bundle.

  • CrossFire and SLI dongle-less / bridgeless performance analysis

    18 September 2006, 09:11

    Bridgeless and dongle-less multi-GPU rendering isn't exactly new. We've seen it on lower end SLI and CrossFire solutions, but now it's starting to rear its head higher up the product ...

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT

    14 September 2006, 13:59

    Ready to check out the full-G71-sporting, 550/700-clocked, 512MiB-carrying, HDCP-protected, supposedly quiet new NVIDIA assault on the top end of the mid-range? Hold on to your tighty whiteys then, pixel fans, ...

  • HIS X1900GT IceQ3 Dual DL-DVI VIVO 256MB

    14 September 2006, 09:05

    Join us as we take not one, but two of these cards for a spin, evaluating single- and dual-card performance along the way, pitting the HIS X1900 GT IceQ3 against ...

  • eVGA e-GeForce 7900 GS Superclocked

    6 September 2006, 13:59

    So two new GeForce 79-series SKUs designed to do damage at two specific price points, using G71 to get the job done. Let's chat about the GeForce 7900 GS further ...

  • MSI NX7300GS-TD256E GeForce 7300 GS 256MiB

    1 September 2006, 08:39

    It's key for system integrators be able to put together budget systems that can still provide the fully-fledged interfaces of the likes of Vista, without having to fork out for ...

  • GeCube X1300 & X1600 HDMI/HDCP Slim Edition cards

    29 August 2006, 08:39

    In recent months there's been quite a kerfuffle over which graphics cards support HDCP. However, we are seeing cards that definitely do support it (and HDMI) trickling through slowly now. ...

  • ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MiB

    23 August 2006, 08:16

    Today the shroud can be lifted and you can all get a good look at 'R580+'

  • HIS X1600 XT IceQ Turbo DL-DVI DVI 256MiB GDDR3 CrossFire evaluation

    21 August 2006, 08:29

    Multi-GPU technology is good right across the board but it makes even more sense with the midrange market, and upgrading to two cards, when funds permit, is always a decent ...

  • eVGA e-GeForce 7950 GX2 Black Pearl Quad SLI

    9 August 2006, 14:00

    A week or so ago the boss got on the blower, breathing heavily. Never a good sign. "Black pearls, Rys, black pearls are coming. Be prepared. 4 chips. SLI. Be ...

  • Galaxy GeForce 7300 GT GDDR3

    9 August 2006, 07:50

    Join us to see if Galaxy's heavily breathed-upon GeForce 7300 GT is worth your hard-earned.

  • NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP shootout

    26 July 2006, 08:21

    New and legacy NVIDIA AGP boards shoot-it-out, plus comparisons with GECUBE's ATi AGP entrant... who said AGP is dead?

  • ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 4-vendor Roundup

    19 July 2006, 09:08

    Do you want the fastest single-card consumer 3D graphics product on the market at the time of writing (it's 11th April 2006 as I tap this out) ? Do you, ...

  • 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 ...