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Friday, August 19, 2005
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We haven't seen a retail Radeon X800 GT card run at higher clock speeds than the reference version, so default performance will always be similar. Price, too, will be similar for partners' cards. The differentiating factor come down to features. PowerColor, with its Game FX X800 GT 256MB carrying dual-DVI-I outputs and using only R480 cores, is in the ascendency here. Our advice after 14 pages is actually quite simple; go buy it. £110 won't buy you better overall 3D performance or a better feature-set...
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Monday, August 8, 2005
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Finally, there is something for ATI fans to rejoice after reading all the positive NVIDIA buzz, while ATI's CrossFire and R520 have yet to materialize in stores. At least this time, their favorite graphics chipmaker has got it right. The performance and pricing of the Radeon X800 GT shows that it is not just a hors d'oeuvre to whet our appetite for the highly anticipated R520. This is a card that can actually compete against the popular GeForce 6600 GT and holds the best chance among all the ATI cards, of reducing NVIDIA's market share in this segment...
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
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What do you want from a £290 video card today? Is it performance, performance, and yet more performance in present games, or is it a deal of futureproofing at the expense of, you've guessed it, performance. PowerColor's X800 XL 512MB pricing treads dangerously on X850-class water, which is a great deal faster in almost every conceivable gaming scenario...
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Monday, July 11, 2005
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PowerColor brings nothing out of the ordinary to their RADEON X800 XL 512MB. Everything is pretty standard for its caliber, from the included features (such as dual DVI outputs and video capturing capability) to the default clock frequencies for the memory and graphics processor. The performance numbers that we got are also comparable to its Sapphire counterpart. Even the bundled accessories and software are on par with that found in its competitors. The only innovation seems to be the custom heat pipe cooler that also happens to be its Achilles' heel...
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Saturday, May 21, 2005
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Equipped with quiet or fanless cooling solutions which are friendly to the ear, mainstream is going silent.... just like the PowerColor Bravo X700 videocard. This card uses the Radeon X700 core with 256MB of GDDR2 DRAM memory modules. Like all X700-based cards, the Powercolor Bravo X700 is PCI Express x16 compatible. What makes the Bravo X700 special is it's fanless heat-pipe cooling solution as well as the fact that it's one of the few dual-DVI mainstream videocards on the market. Since it can operate in a low noise situation, the Bravo X700 is great for HTPCs with its HDTV support too.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
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As you've probably guessed by now, the Powercolor Theatre 550 Pro works as a TV-tuner ought to. Its combination of great image quality and perfect frame rates made us very happy campers indeed. ATI appears to have the makings of a hit on their hands with the Theatre Pro 550 chip.
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