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Friday, February 10, 2006
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ATI announced the X1600XT back in October with the rest of the X1000 series lineup. It was a disappointing paper launch and took a while before any of the X1000 series cards were available. Always overshadowed by ATI's high-end the X1600XT rarely saw much attention from online media. However, with mass availability of X1600XT cards ATI is working hard to get the word across about their mid-range graphics card. The question is how well it stacks up to its direct competitor the 6600GT or even the last generation high end 6800GT. Keep reading as we put the X1600XT through everything from gaming to HQV Benchmark DVD tests - is it the perfect mid-range gaming, home theater PC, and/or workstation solution?
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ATI's All-in-Wonder range is something of a legend in the PC graphics market. Since the introduction of the first All-in-Wonder back in late 1996 (based on the 3D Rage II!) it has become famed for offering an all-you-can-eat mix of high powered graphics and multimedia in one pot. On top of the latest ATI graphics chip, the All-in-Wonder always adds a TV Tuner and a plethora of inputs and outputs for connecting up and capturing from a variety of sources. It was really the forerunner to what is now becoming a mainstream practice - combining the power of a computer with TV. In the past it has always been some time after releasing its latest graphics chipset before the GPU would also appear. However, this time ATI has been quick out of the traps, releasing the All-in-Wonder X1900 at virtually the same time as the dedicated graphics card...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2006
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ATI's latest All-in-Wonder card, the AIW X1900 uses the company's latest and great GPU, borrowed from the X1900 series gaming cards, and includes video capturing and editing capabilities as well as an integrated television tuner complete with PVR and TV On-Demand functions. The X1900 GPU is a remarkable processor that performs extremely well in 3D environments; perfect for gamers. We have always been impressed with the premise behind the All-In-Wonder philosophy and we are still surprised to see ATI the only video card company to implement a product-line behind a video card that basically does everything. Previous All-In-Wonder cards that we have reviewed have pretty much been hit or miss, so we are excited to see what ATI has brought to the table this time around...
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Friday, February 3, 2006
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After a successful launch of new high end GPU, what better way to end the month of January than coupling the new X1900 series GPU with a multimedia features? Unlike the launch of the All-in-Wonder X1800XL that came a couple of months after the initial GPU launch, the All-in-Wonder X1900 arrives a week after the X1900 launch. Replacing the two month old All-in-Wonder X1800XL does the All-in-Wonder X1900 have what it takes to serve double duty as a gaming and multimedia card?
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
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Less than four months since we reviewed the Radeon X1800 XT, ATI has followed up with a successor, the R580 now bestowed with the title the X1900. This means that the X1800 has had one of the shortest ever runs as a flagship graphics product, beaten only by NVIDIA's ill-fated and ill-rated, GeForceFX 5800. However, as ATI would have had two teams working on new products, it's likely that the R580 team were simply on-time, whereas the R520 team, were very late. Even more remarkably it seems as though ATI hasn't entirely paper launched and its cards should be available to buy as you read this...
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Looking exactly like the X1800XT, the X1900XTX is based on 90nm process technology and packing a whopping 380 million transistors and is the first graphics card to feature 48 pixel shader processors- triple of what the X1800XT offered. Now this is a good thing considering almost all games released of late use Pixel Shaders...
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The X1800 CrossFire card looks identical to the X1800XT card although ATI has changed the cable for connecting the two cards compared to the older X850 setup. This is probably because the X1800 cards support dual link DVI ports for higher resolutions and refresh rates - an annoyance hat seriously plagued the X850 CrossFire setup...
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Thursday, January 19, 2006
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While ATI's first generation Crossfire platform proved ATI could offer a dual video card solution to gaming enthusiasts it was based on a core that was dated and had a number of issuses when it came to resolutions. The second generation of Crossfire cards is based on the R520 core, which is still the flagship GPU for ATI and comes packed with the latest features...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005
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This is it. The new Radeon X1800 Series hands you the visual and performance possibilities you only dreamed of from a PC graphics processor. It has been designed with a radically new ultra-threaded 3D architecture and Shader Model 3.0, unleashing the most mind-blowing gaming effects. What's more, the X1800 introduces ATI's revolutionary Avivo(TM), our new reference for video and display perfection... This card like all its older predecessors is just another notch in the corner post in the multimedia videocard market where ATI is still dominating with a product that gives any weak competition the "who's your daddy" as soon as they enter the room...
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Monday, December 19, 2005
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The new X1000 series is based completely on 128-bit Floating Point precision. There is no fallback to 64-bit (FP16) precision in the pipeline. The X1000 series will operate at FP32 at all times. Even if a partial precision hint is included in the code, the cards will simply ignore it and continue to run at FP32. There is no FP16 or lower precision at all. This will give you the highest precision offered in your games no matter what...Read on to find more...
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If you've held off buying anything up to just to wait and see how it pans out just before Christmas, or you've already splashed out on an ATI Radeon X1800 XT or XL (I'll come back to that later), or you simply have that car crash curiosity about high-end 3D graphics right now, today's article will have your interest. The reason is the release of ATI Radeon X1800 XT Crossfire master boards to market. 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 generation of Crossfire been eliminated?
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Monday, November 28, 2005
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The one thing today I am still seeing is how a lot of people just aren't considering these All in Wonder cards to be an option for their new computer system. Who wouldn't want a competent videocard that can game with the best of them along with the endless multimedia features that make this card the swiss army knife peripheral of the computer industry. There is not one other product in the computing market that encapsulates more features for such a decent price than the All in Wonder. If you are thinking about a new videocard, you OWE yourself the time to consider this option...
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Saturday, November 12, 2005
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The Radeon X1800XT is, without doubt, a very fast video card. There are questions about availability that have to be asked - there haven't been many in stock worldwide thus far and it is selling above its MSRP in the USA. The price in the UK at the time of publication is very competitive with the XFX Extreme Gamer Edition, but you're able to buy one but not the other...
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Thursday, October 6, 2005
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It sure took a long time coming but the R520 from ATI that is officially labeled as the x1800 is finally here. ATI representatives say that the delay was caused due to a problem with current leakage in transistors and trying to find that is about the same as trying to find a needle in a haystack considering the millions of transistors present in the core. The good thing that came out of this extensive problem solving sessions is that the design of the R520 kept getting better and better and because of this, the final production sample of the core is clocked almost 150MHz higher than what ATI had originally planned...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
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Setting up Crossfire is quite simple- the master card needs to go into the primary PCI-E x16 slot and a cable runs from the master to the standard card which in turn connects to your monitor. There are no switches or bridges and you don't need to reboot to enable or disable multi GPU mode...Read on...
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