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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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With all of that said though, if you are looking to play games on lower resolution panels, or even on an older CRT monitor, the Radeon X1900XT 256MB represents a very solid purchase because it performs very similarly to the considerably more expensive 512MB version of the card. If you can put up with the cooler or are prepared to buy a replacement, we think that Radeon X1900XT 256MB will serve you well until performance mainstream DirectX 10 hardware arrives next year.
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We will be looking at what GeCube, PowerColor, Sapphire and HIS have to offer us in this low-end department. We will have a quick look at each card, what cooler they use, if there are any significant differences between the cards, along with what is included in the package. We will be throwing in the Crossfire results from the other day just for the heck of it along side our other cards by themselves. Let's get started and see which manufacturer is offering the best Radeon X1300XT.
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006
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With Radeon X1650 PRO rolling with higher clocks and a new lower-than-X1600 XT price, it's certainly worth a peek versus NVIDIA competition. GeCube, HIS and Sapphire fired boards our way, and it's those we present in this piece. With three different coolers and clock levels on test, there's plenty to chat about and present.
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
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ATI's X1950XTX is supposed to be retailing for $449 as a MSRP. It is currently available at Newegg.com for $419, not a bad price for what you get. Performance in the high-end today is sufficient for high resolution gaming with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled and the X1950XTX delivers performance in spades, beating other single card solutions out there by a nice margin.
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
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We thought we'd see what shifting the RV530Pro GPU down into the X1300 series does to that section of the graphics market. We've got our grubby mitts on a pair of X1300 XTs, one from GeCube, the other from Sapphire. We'll be squaring them up against a GeForce 7300 GT and 7300 GS.
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The core on the X1950 XTX almost remains unchanged running at the same frequency as the x1900- 650MHz. ATI does say that the core is tweaked and thus the model number has changed from R580 to R580+ and from our talks with ATI, that + sign is basically an updated/tweaked memory controller that will also take over the x1900 series in the future.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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The X1900 line packs a very potent punch that gamers can rely on to give them a great experience and the X1900XT 256MB doesn't change that one bit. In fact we saw more than a few times where the 256MB card still had enough punch to K.O. the 7900 GTX. The problems with the X1900XT 256MB are mostly limited to heat and noise. The new heatsink included on the X1950 series would be a terrific fit here as it would resolve the noise problem and would also help out the heat that this card puts out. During our overclocking adventures we saw temperatures reach 85c!
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Wednesday, September 6, 2006
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In today?s article we?ll be evaluating ATI?s latest Radeon X1950XTX and X1900XT 256MB in single card performance. How much of an improvement is the X1950XTX? How much performance is lost with the X1900XT 256MB? And how well does it
compare to NVIDIA?s offerings?
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Monday, September 4, 2006
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To give a brief summary of performance, we have the ASUS EN7800 GT Top Silent as the obvious leader followed by the Gigabyte 7600 GT in second place. Depending on the game, the next best card in terms of performance is either one of the Gigabyte, MSI, EVGA, and ASUS 7600 GS cards or either of the ASUS and Gigabyte X1600 XT offerings/ The factory-overclocked Gigabyte 7600 GS scores slightly better than the rest of these, making it the overall third fastest silent card. The next step down would be the ASUS EN6600 GT Silencer, followed by the Gigabyte and Albatron factory-overclocked 7300 GTs. Depending on the game and settings, the HIS and Gigabyte X1600 Pro might do a little better or worse than the reference-clocked MSI NX7300 GT (better generally in Splinter Cell Chaos Theory and Rise of Legends, and worse in most of the other games). Then at the low end you have the HIS and Gigabyte X1300 Pro followed by the Gigabyte 7300 GS. Again in Splinter Cell and Rise of Legends, the Gigabyte X1300 performs slightly better than the Sparkle 7300 GS Ultra 2, and in most of the other games the Sparkle 7300 GS performs the worst.
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Thursday, August 31, 2006
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With SB600 ready and used by board partners for next-gen. CrossFire Xpress 3200 mainboards on Socket 939 and Socket AM2, ATI has its reference board for partners to work with. And if whispers reaching our ears are correct, the Sturgeon isn't just a work in progress; you'll see it in retail form from the usual suspects.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
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The time I've spent with the Radeon X1950XTX over the last week or so has been a pleasure. ATI has listened to feedback we've given during our previous Radeon X1800 and Radeon X1900-series reviews and has taken some action for the good - it's about time, in that respect. The new cooling solution is fantastic and I'm seriously considering getting hold of one of these babies for my own system.
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Friday, August 18, 2006
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After taking some time to get familiar with the Theater 650 Pro processor from ATI, it's clear that ATI has a another strong product in their multimedia line-up. We were impressed with the overall image quality of both the analog and digital signals and FM performance was excellent as well. Channel changing seemed a bit more snappy than the NVIDIA DualTV and ATI also has a leg up on NVIDIA with their Catalyst Media Center software, making it a more widely compatible solution.
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Monday, April 3, 2006
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Workstation accelerators are very application specific, and the best choice of hardware can depend greatly on which specific content creation application you want to use. But initial testing with the FireGL V7350 shows promise for both 3D animation and CAD users. We don't yet have confirmed UK pricing for the V7300 and V7350, but the suggested retail prices are $1,599 and $1,999 respectively (the Sterling price at the top of this review is an estimate based on current exchange rates). Considering that nVidia's Quadro FX 4500 will set you back £1,000 - £1,500, the 1GB FireGL card won't be much more expensive than nVidia's 512MB competitor, and the 512MB V7300 could be cheaper...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
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ATI has recently released the Radeon X1800 GTO, which is a 12 pipe card (8 vertex pipes) based off the same R520 core found on the X1800XT processors. Today Legit Reviews takes this $249 card for a test drive and benchmarks it in a number of popular games. Come take a look at see if ATI's more expensive solution is a threat to the GeForce 7600GT...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
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Niggles aside, for just under £300 when it finally makes its way to retail, you'll get GeForce 7800 GTX performance for less money with the AIW feature set and software to boot. It's that which makes the AIW great, and peerless, in the world of consumer graphics and multimedia technology. No other product offers the same mix for the same cash, and with R580 ATI get to move that game on even further. The best value graphics board currently in production? It's hard to say no...
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