ATI Mobility X300 & X800 @ Legit Reviews
Legit Reviews :: Tuesday, November 30, 2004
“The Mobility X800 proved to be able to play some of the most current game tittles. We played Doom3, FarCry, and Half-Life 2 on the Mobility X800 at 1600×1200 and the games were smooth. In Half-Life 2 playing at 1024×768 with 4xAA & 8xAF we got over 60FPS, which is amazing for a notebook…”
NVIDIA’s SLI – An Introduction!
Hexus :: Tuesday, November 30, 2004
“You’ll have to wait for the rest of the articles, but I hope the initial look at things gives you some idea of the operating modes, what SLI can get you in terms of theoretical increases and also increases (or not) in real games. AFR is the dominant mode in the drivers at the time of writing, whether or not it offers the best performance or not, but overall it’s a mode that works well. You really have to sit down in front of a system and play your favourite game, using AFR, to see if it’s a mode that you can use comfortably.”
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Christmas giveaway @ TekBunker
TekBunker :: Monday, November 29, 2004
“Update. In addition to the sounds cards and goodies, there are 12 Creative labs T-Shirts to be given away as well”
MSI nForce4 K8N Neo4 Review @ t-break
t-break :: Monday, November 29, 2004
“We like the layout on the K8N Neo4- MSI does well to place everything where is should be. The first thing we noticed were the size of MOSFETS used on this board. The picture below shows you how big they are and if they’re used to provide this board good stability and better overclocking, then they surely work great. The CPU socket is also mostly free of capacitors allowing you to install a reasonably sized heatsink.”
NVIDIA’s SLI – 6600 GT Performance and Conclusion @ Hexus
Hexus :: Monday, November 29, 2004
“If you’ve been following our SLI article series, you’ll have seen the intro and 6800 Ultra performance, and 6800 GT performance articles. That leaves one loose end to tie up in terms of SLI performance; 6600 GT. Today’s article will wrap everything up, examining the cheapest of the SLI card pairs and digging deeper into the question of price-performance to check if SLI is worth investing in from a value-for-money point of view.
I’ll then briefly touch on the PSU requirements for SLI using a few PSUs at my disposal, before using my crystal ball to predict the availability of the parts you’ll need for SLI, should you decide it’s a route you wish to take.”
Albatron Mars PX915P-AGPe Motherboard Review @ PCStats
PCStats :: Saturday, November 27, 2004
“The Albatron Mars PX915P-AGPe fills in the gap set forth by the socket 775 Intel Pentium 4 and Intel 915 chipset which require users to adopt PCI Express graphics solutions. Or course, this board will support a PCI Express x16 videocard (4GB/s bandwidth), but it also has a AGPe slot that is compatible with 8X AGP videocards. Furthermore, since the PX915P-AGPe is built around the Intel 915P core logic and ICH6 southbridge, it makes use of standard dual channel DDR memory, not DDR-2 RAM. Either type of videocard can be used, even at the same time. Although, we should point out that the AGPe (AGP extension) slot is not necessarily equal to that of an 8X AGP slot, as it runs through the PCI bus. The flexibility is nice, and makes it the major selling point of Albatron’s PX915P-AGPe motherboard.”
Gainward’s GeForce 6800 GT Ultra/2400 Golden Sample Goes Like Hell 256MB @ HEXUS
Hexus :: Friday, November 26, 2004
“Gainward’s GeForce 6800 GT Ultra/2400 Golden Sample Goes Like Hell 256MB is a fast and furious card that will ultimately appeal to the enthusiast who desires clock speed above all else. In that respect, it’s a decent effort. Forget that it’s named a GT; that’s just clever marketing. The only question you really need to ask yourself when contemplating a video card at this end of the market is whether an NV40-based 400/1200-clocked card is worth £380 of your hard-earned money. If it is, it’s well worth considering.”
Logitech Z-680 5.1 Speaker Review @ The Tech Zone
The Tech Zone :: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
“Up until a few months ago, the Z-680 was Logitech’s top of the line computer speakers. That title now belongs to their new Z-5500 Digital. However, just because the Z-680 is not longer top of the hill doesn’t mean the speakers are no good – far from it. The Z-680 is still among the best computer speakers money can buy. And thanks the fact that it’s no longer top of the line, these speakers have become a super great buy.”
Altec Lansing AHP712 Headphones w/ Active Noise Reduction
The Tech Lounge :: Tuesday, November 23, 2004
ATI Radeon X600XT Shootout – HIS vs. ABIT vs. GeCube
TweakTown :: Tuesday, November 23, 2004
“Today we have a PCI Express graphics card shootout comparing three different ATI Radeon X600XT cards from HIS, ATI and GeCube. After taking a look at each product we run them through our usual array of benchmarks and then overclock each as far as possible and then re-run the benchmarks to work our which is fastest for modern day gaming.”
Gigabyte Radeon X800 Pro
InsaneTek :: Tuesday, November 23, 2004
MSI RX800XT-VTD256E Review @ Viper Lair
ViperLair :: Saturday, November 20, 2004
“The card bundle is one of the better ones out there, though it’s a shame ATI (and as a consequence, MSI) no longer bundles a Half-Life 2 voucher which could have made the software package worth getting excited about. Nonetheless, performance is where it ultimately matters, and the MSI RX800XT-VTD256E brings it.”
Nvidia Geforce 6800GT PCI Express 256Meg Videocard Review @ Tweaknews
Tweaknews :: Friday, November 19, 2004
NVIDIA’s GeForce 6600GT AGP @ Hexus
Hexus :: Friday, November 19, 2004
“It’s fast, doesn’t break the bank and hopefully, hopefully, will be available in large numbers in a matter of a week or two. Recommended very highly if you’re shopping in the mid-range with just shy of £200 to spend. Drop 150 notes on the card, some change on Half Life 2 and enjoy the game, as ATI struggle to bring X700 XT to AGP. 9800 Pro and XT aren’t far off in terms of performance, but in terms of features and price, the 6600 GT on AGP beats them off with a very big stick. Until RIALTO is a reality, 6600 GT is the new mid-range card to choose on AGP, bar none.”
How To Build Home Theater PC @ The Tech Zone
The Tech Zone :: Friday, November 19, 2004
Nvidia Geforce 6800GT PCI Express 256Meg Videocard Review @ Tweaknews.net
Tweaknews :: Thursday, November 18, 2004
HEXUS.net Review: ATI XPRESS 200
Hexus :: Thursday, November 18, 2004
“ATI’s designed a multi-purpose chipset that will appeal to a wide range of users. On the one hand, the enthusiast has the choice of opting for a competitive chipset that appears to overclock as high as NVIDIA or VIA’s best. The business customer, meanwhile, can take advantage of an IGP model and produce a low-cost, powerful system. Productivity may suffer once employees understand and exploit its DX9 goodness, though. What ATI and its partners need to do is flood the Athlon 64 market with as many different examples of its XPRESS 200 chipset, both basic and premium, before NVIDIA and VIA do. Timing is everything in this business, and the proverbial clock is ticking.”
How To Build Home Theater PC @ The Tech Zone
The Tech Zone :: Thursday, November 18, 2004
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP Review @ Beyond3D
Beyond3D :: Wednesday, November 17, 2004
“The inclusion of the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra in this article also highlights exactly the importance of a flexible shader pipeline in current gaming titles. The top level fill-rates and geometry performances between the 5800 Ultra and the newer 6600 GT’s are fairly similar, and yet in gaming titles, even DirectX8 ones that rely heavily on multi-texturing and not so much on shaders, the 6600 GT’s show large performance gains over NVIDIA’s two year old high end technology”
Logitech X-230 Speakers Review @ CoolTechZone
CoolTechZone :: Wednesday, November 17, 2004
ATI Radeon Xpress 200 @ t-break
t-break :: Tuesday, November 16, 2004
“In our opinion, its much harder to compete in the chipset market for the Intel platform as Intel itself dominates this market with their excellent chipsets. However, AMD doesn’t push their own chipsets and with the recent news of AMD outselling Intel CPUs in the retail segment, it makes a lot more sense to design chipsets for the AMD platform. That is exactly what ATI did by releasing two chipsets for the Athlon64- the Radeon Xpress 200 and the Radeon Xpress 200P. The difference between the two is that the Radeon Xpress 200 has integrated graphics while the 200P doesn’t. We received the Radeon Xpress 200P from ATI and its time find out what we think about it.”
ATI X800 Pro Video Card Review @ CoolTechZone
CoolTechZone :: Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Samsung SyncMaster 710N LCD Monitor @ TechTastic.ca
TechTastic :: Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Samsung SyncMaster 710N TFT-LCD Monitor Review @ MODTHEBOX!
MODTHEBOX! :: Sunday, November 14, 2004
Altec Lansing AHS-602 Headset Review @ The Tech Zone
The Tech Zone :: Thursday, November 11, 2004
The Tech Zone takes a look at Altec Lansing’s top of the line AHS-602 headset. The AHS-602 creates 3D sound using SRS Headphone Technology. Sounds perfect for the LAN party. SRS Headphone technology is an audio enhancement technology that provides a realistic and spacious listening experience through standard headphones. Based on the same psychoacoustic research as the patented, Sound Retrieval System (SRS) and further refined for use with headphones. This technology uses the spatial information from recordings to restore the original three-dimensional sound field. This process repositions the sound from inside the listener’s head to outside the listener’s ears, creating a more natural listening experience without relying on special recording techniques or manipulation of the audio signal.
HEXUS.net Feature: A Private Home For Retired Supercomputers
Hexus :: Thursday, November 11, 2004
Snip: “If I were so inclined, and I’m not a small guy, I could quite easily climb inside an empty T90 chassis, into the cooling chamber. And partially empty was what Armari’s T90 was until recently. Collecting the chassis is all well and good – they are spectacles of computing history in their own right – but Dan likes to have them functionally complete, even if they’ll never crunch another vector calculation again. So having secured the T90 chassis from a UK institution, as it and its sister T90 were being decommissioned, he set about laying the groundwork for obtaining the CPU, I/O and memory boards needed to build the T90 into a full 32 CPU T932.”
Photographs are required to really do the machinery justice, take a look for yourselves…
Gigabyte 6800 Video Card Review Updated @ CoolTechZone
CoolTechZone :: Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Gigabyte GeForce 6800 (GV-N68128DH) @ Bjorn3D.com
Bjorn3D :: Tuesday, November 09, 2004
“I think it’s fair to say that Gigabyte is a company that usually offers rather pedestrian cooling solutions on the video cards in its line-up. Gigabyte is not known for breaking the reference design mold too much, which is not necessarily a bad thing, especially if you consider the high-quality products with good bundles that are usually offered by Gigabyte.
The company’s GeForce 6800 offering – the GV-N68128DH – is quite a change-up for them. The card features a completely fanless cooling solution that consists of a rather large heatsink and a heatpipe design. What? A high-end video card with no fan? Yeah, that’s right. Keep in mind, though, that the chip on this board is a standard GeForce 6800, which means it’s the least powerful of NVIDIA’s current high-end graphics accelerator solutions.”
HCT NC-760 Noise-Canceling Earphones Review @ CoolTechZone
CoolTechZone :: Saturday, November 06, 2004
NVIDIA PCI-Express GeForce 6800 GT @ Bjorn3D
Bjorn3D :: Friday, November 05, 2004
“PCI-Express video cards have been available for a little while now, but the high-end cards are not widely available yet. ATi’s Radeon X800 and X800 XT cards are starting to show up on e-tailers’ virtual shelves, but the newest NVIDIA card you’ll find in retail form is a GeForce 6600 GT. Demand for PCI-Express cards probably hasn’t been really high yet, though. However, now that nForce4 is about to hit the streets, I’m sure we’ll see a spike in demand.”
Creative Nomad MuVo² 4GB @ HEXUS
Hexus :: Friday, November 05, 2004
“As a compact MP3 player with bags of storage capacity, you’re on to a winner with the MuVo². 4GB of storage space in such a small device can’t be bad, Hitachi’s MicroDrive 1″ format the genius behind the implementation. Battery life is good, comparable to its chief rivals and the software is simple to use.”
Altec Lansing MX5020 Speakers Review @ CoolTechZone
CoolTechZone :: Thursday, November 04, 2004
Sapphire Radeon X800XT PCI Express Reviewed @ VR-Zone Hardware
VR-Zone :: Thursday, November 04, 2004
“From stock core and memory clock speeds of 500MHz, I was able to overclock the Sapphire Radeon X800XT PCIe’s core 46MHz and memory 55MHz, yielding a final clock speed of 546MHz/555MHz (core/memory). It’s important to note that the core speed is actually faster than the stock core speed of the Radeon X800XT Platinum Edition, and just 5MHz slower than it’s memory clock speed (Core: 520MHz / Memory: 560MHz). I was impressed that we were able to get at and maintain these speeds throughout our testing, with no artifacting or problems at overclocked frequencies after more than a week of playing games at them.”
HEXUS.net Preview: ATI’s Radeon X700 XT and Radeon X700 PRO
Hexus :: Wednesday, November 03, 2004
“This article serves two purposes. We’ll take a look at the new XT, paying close attention to its thermal characteristics before looking at performance, and I’ll also publish some numbers and thoughts from that initial look at the PRO. It was only 5MHz away on the core clock from matching ATI’s final set clocks, so while its results are gleaned using an older driver build that ATI aren’t especially happy with, it’ll serve as a nice reference point for when we get a final PRO board to look at.”
Albatron Trinity PCX5750 @ Viper Lair
ViperLair :: Monday, November 01, 2004
“In current games such as Serious Sam SE and UT2004, this card can play 1024*768 without any real problems, and for the most part you can enable AA and ansiotropic filtering while still keeping playability. Newer games such as Splinter Cell also are playable at 1024*768, but only without the extra quality settings enabled. New games such as Doom 3 and Far Cry are playable at 800*600 without AA and ansiotropic filtering, but I wouldn’t really suggest going beyond that.”
Gigabyte 6800 Video Card Review @ CoolTechZone
CoolTechZone :: Monday, November 01, 2004
