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Thursday, January 25, 2007
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Most gamers out there don't want to spend the kind of money it takes to own a high end graphics cards like the 8800 GTX. Thankfully there are cards that perform well and wont break the bank like the card we are covering today the PowerColor ATI X1950 Pro Extreme 512MB Graphics Card. One of the most interesting features of this graphics card is the silent cooling fan called the arctic Cooling Accelero X2. While this heatsink looks massive, it is still small enough for the card to require only one PCI slot. The design uses six heat pipes and will work in CrossFire mode as well as in BTX chassis.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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The PowerColor X1650 XT AGP arrived Technic3D. As good is the Graphic Card X1650 XT AGP really against NVIDIA 6800 Ultra and 7800 GS Graphic Cards? Technic3D will see that in the following Review.
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Monday, January 15, 2007
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PowerColor seem to be following in the footsteps of HIS with the team up with Arctic Cooling to help their cards stand out from the norm. The good news is while we quite often see high price tags affiliated with cards using aftermarket cooling, PowerColor have been able to keep the price low without sacrificing any quality. With a straight out comparison against the Gigabyte Zalman cooled GeForce 7900GS, we will see if our thoughts can finally change for the better on the Radeon X1950PRO or if it will continue to let us down.
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Monday, December 18, 2006
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ATI's Radeon X1650 XT has proven to be a creditable opponent in the mid-range segment against NVIDIA's reigning GeForce 7600 GT. We always like more options in the market because that usually leads to better prices so to further encourage this new card, we have PowerColor's version for review.
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Thursday, November 23, 2006
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With all the attention on NVIDIA's GeForce 8 series, ATI's second ranked card, the Radeon X1950 XT has entered the market well under the radar. Priced to compete against the GeForce 7950 GT, how would this revamped Radeon fare against the competition? Here are our thoughts.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
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Generally speaking, there were small gameplay advantages delivered by PowerColor's card as a result of the slightly higher default clock speeds. We also really like the fact that PowerColor has moved away from the norm and included an Arctic Cooling Accelero X2 as the standard cooling solution, but one has to wonder whether it's worth the additional £20 that the card will cost you over Sapphire's Radeon X1950 Pro. That will come down to whether you are planning to overclock or not.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
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ATI's Radeon X1650 was introduced with the X1950 XTX and the X1300 XT. Just what is this card? As the name suggests, it is a little step up from the X1600 XT. With the same amount of pipelines, and slightly higher clocks, is there anything to look forward to with the X1650 Pro? No doubt, this card at least runs cooler - insured by a smaller manufacturing process. Does it bring balanced performance at a fair price? How does it fair compared to the X1300 XT? Most importantly, is it worth buying?
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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To counter NVIDIA's diversifying GeForce 7900 series, ATI today has hard-launched their answer - the Radeon X1950 PRO. Based on a new 80nm core, ATI was able to deliver the price-performance combination that was lacking in their range for a long time. Check out what we thought about PowerColor's souped up version.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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A bit over a month ago we saw the introduction of the first graphics card featuring the high speed GDDR4 memory chips with the launch of the Radeon X1950 XTX accelerator. At the same time the CrossFire edition was announced featuring the same clock rates as the XTX version. In the meantime ATI hasn't been waiting for the next big thing to happen. Instead they have been working hard on expanding the Radeon X1950 series with a slightly slower version. This to go up against the GeForce 7900 GS which hasn't found its match when looking at a price and performance index. To regain its position, ATI has designed and released the Radeon X1950 PRO edition.
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The new PowerColor X1950 Pro arrived Technic3D. Fast and Cool with Arctic Cooling?
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
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Not so long ago we saw the introduction of the fastest single graphics card with the launch of the NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 with the ability of enabling Quad SLI operation. Since than ATI hasn't just been hanging around thing of their next move but have quietly worked upon their counter action. With a redesign of their R580 core, they have now the weapon to go up against the GX2 with their Radeon X1950 XTX video card. No, you won't see any Quad CrossFire coming to counter the Quad SLI technology. Currently ATI required a redesign of their high-end GPU to enable the support for the GDDR4 memory chips and unlock the full potential of their optimized R580+ chip.
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Monday, August 7, 2006
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Powercolor send us their latest addition, a mid/high-range video card based on the X1900 series from ATI. The X1900 GT has the same core as the higher end XT/XTX models but comes clocked lower and has fewer pixel shader processors. The decrease in GPU speeds allows the GT to be cooled with a single slot heatsink which covers both core and memory chips. Powercolor decided to stick with the reference design which helps keep the price down. The X1900 GT was originally planned to be sold under the GTO name, but a last minute change by ATI removed the O, which resulted in their product now carrying a name very similar to its main competitor, the NVIDIA 7900 GT.
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Sunday, August 6, 2006
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PowerColor has released two versions of the Radeon X1600 PRO AGP card that differ not that much from each other, with the design being almost identical. Both versions come with the core and memory speeds which are set at 500MHz core and 800MHz memory clock speed. So what is than the difference? Well the reference design from ATI only features 256MB of memory, although is capable of addressing up to 512MB. So, PowerColor had opted to build two versions, one following the reference design with 256MB and another with 512MB memory.
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Friday, May 12, 2006
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The X1800 GTO cards use regular X1800XL chips with just 12 rasterizing pipelines instead of 16. Clocks are still at 500 MHz for both memory and core. We tested this card and found it is an overclocker's dream. Even though we could not unlock the extra pipelines, the card still overclocks very well, in our case to over 700 MHz on air cooling...
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Monday, April 24, 2006
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The PowerColor X1900XTX can only be summed up by one word...awesome. Simply fantastic performance out of a single card that is only rivaled by one other right now from the green camp. My focus today was to see if the extra $400 you would spend on this card versus my current main video card, an X800GTO, was worth it. For me on my large CRT at resolutions of 1600x1200, this card was like playing games all over again. Far Cry was stunning at that resolution with full HDR support and frame rates to kill...
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