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Wednesday, August 8, 2007
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While enthusiasts continue to wait for AMD/ATI's entrance into the high-end corner of the DirectX 10 battlefield, mainstream and casual gamers loyal to the red and green can jump right into the fray with the 2x00 series videocards. Today HardwareLogic wields Sapphire's HD 2400XT, a budget card that, on paper, appears to be better suited for slicing through HTPC duties than gaming skirmishes. Nevertheless, we jump into the action, and we'll show you who's left standing.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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ATI's 2xxx range of cards has received mixed press throughout review sites since their release. Today I get my first play with with one of them, the HD 2600XT from Sapphire. Let's see if it lives up to its budget card ideals.
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Monday, July 23, 2007
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Leading the charge for ATI in the mainstream DirectX 10 graphics card segment is its new Radeon HD 2600 XT, equipped with 256MB of GDDR4 memory. Is that sufficient against NVIDIA and its GeForce 8600 series? Find out as we take the Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 XT apart in this review.
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Thursday, July 5, 2007
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We take a look at Sapphire's pre-overclocked and attractively-priced Radeon HD 2600 PRO and tell you whether it's worth £65 of your money.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007
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After the disappointing performance numbers of the budget Radeon HD 2400 XT, we move up the ladder to the mid-range Radeon HD 2600 series with an overclocked version of the Radeon HD 2600 PRO from Sapphire.
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Monday, July 2, 2007
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Overall, this videocard is an excellent replacement for anyone trying to get an extra year or so out of their exist AGP enabled computer. For a small US$180 investment, you can game with the rest of them and enjoy comfortable framerates from a computer that some companies are trying to convince you is "out of date" which you know is completely false.
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Monday, June 4, 2007
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Although PCI-Express has been around for a while now, there are still plenty of people out there that haven't made the switch yet, and are therefore still using AGP cards. However, there is a problem here as a lot of manufacturers offer very few options for AGP gamers. Fortunately, Sapphire are not a company to let this lot down and have sent us their x1950 Pro AGP to let us see what it can do.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
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Although many have been a bit disappointed that the latest hardware renditions that ATI released didn't take the GTX performance crown, they tend to forget that the money is in the mid to low range cards, not the top end. This is a market that is still held pretty firmly by ATI with their x1950 Pro cards. Today I have Sapphire's version of the series which has proved itself time and time again; let's see how this one fairs against new challengers from the 8600 series.
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Sunday, May 20, 2007
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Even while ATI fans crow over the new Radeon HD 2000 series of graphics cards, many R5xx-based cards are now being sold at discounted prices. One, the Radeon X1950 GT, was recently created to offer a graphics card that would offer really good value for money. Join us today as we take a look at the Sapphire Radeon X1950 GT and see how it fares in the new Windows Vista operating system. This will show us just how much value there is in such cards.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
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Yup, Sapphire's spiced things up by launching a customised Radeon X1950 Pro that doubles up on a single PCB. A speed demon or a bridge too far?
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Once I had got the stock results from both the 7600gt and the Sapphire X1650xt (stock for my 7600gt is 560Mhz Core and 1400Mhz memory as it comes pre overclocked) I decided to see how well the X1650xt over clocks. To do this I used Ati's Overdrive feature from within the Catalyst Control Centre to auto detect the highest clocks possible. I mean who is going to leave things stock these days when the drivers come with a built in Overclocking tool?
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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Sapphire's Pure Innovation HDMI motherboard is one of the first few AMD 690G motherboards hitting the market to make full use of the advanced video processing and display capabilities of the new chipset. This is one board all entertainment buffs don't want to miss out on.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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Sapphire's X1950 Pro Dual is the world's first video card that uses two ATI RV570 GPUs on a single PCB. The board comes with 2x 512 MB of GDDR3 memory for a price of $399. In our testing the card shows that it has to potential to narrow the performance gap to NVIDIA's lineup until R600 is released.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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Sapphire's new X1950 GT is based on ATI's RV570 GPU. It comes with 256 MB of GDDR3 memory and is cheaper than the Radeon X1900 GT. Of course you can not expect performance wonders from a $140 card, but it is a great way to survive the wait for ATI's next-gen products while being able to play all the latest games.
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
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Sapphire's latest motherboard is based on AMD's RS690 chipset which features integrated VGA and HDMI output onboard. The board is an excellent choice for media PC systems since it is MicroATX and supports audio via HDMI. Performance is almost equal to much more expensive RD580 motherboards, the BIOS also has a load of overclocking options.
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