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Monday, March 12, 2007
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When we had a look at the Palit Radeon X1950GT 512MB the other week, we noticed that at the higher resolutions, it would put up more of a fight against the higher clocked 256MB graphics cards, such as the Radeon X1950PRO and GeForce 7900GS. With the new Sapphire Radeon X1950GT 256MB in hand, it was clear what we wanted to find out - does the extra memory really come in handy? We saw that the cut back to 320MB on the GeForce 8800GTS had quite the impact on performance and it often mentioned that 512MB can be handy on the right card as long as it had the GPU power to back it up.
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Friday, February 9, 2007
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Many people have been quick to belittle ATI for basically repackaging a three-year old product and marketing it as a significant upgrade. However, at just under £40, it could be all a lot of people want from a graphics card. Giving them a sparkling new windows interface while offsetting any other graphical overheads and providing better video quality - by way of ATI's brilliant video processing. At a push, it will even play the most modern games, just at very low resolutions and quality settings.
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Thursday, February 8, 2007
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The Sapphire X1950 XTX Toxic arrived Technic3D. The Graphic Card with Thermaltake Watercooling and 695 MHz better than others High-End Graphic Cards? Technic3D will see that in the following Review.
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Monday, February 5, 2007
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Following up on its successful Radeon X1950 PRO, ATI now has a cheaper alternative for those wanting to save a few more bucks. This new SKU, the Radeon X1950 GT has lower clock speeds but we can always overclock it to match a Radeon X1950 PRO right? Read on to find out how that turned out.
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Friday, February 2, 2007
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I don't know who Sapphire worked with to develop their heatpipe design, but I am impressed with the construction. The tubes are 8mm which will allow a lot of movement of fluid and vapor which means more efficient cooling. The bends on the tubing are a little rough, but not enough to affect it's ability. If you look closely at the picture of the side of the card that has the DVI connectors you will notice two rubber pads on the fins. These keep the metal from meeting with circuitry, which is a very good thing.
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Monday, January 29, 2007
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A little while ago we took a look at the Sapphire Radeon X1300 XT video card. It proved to be a great midrange card, especially for the price. Well today we will be talking a look at its bigger brother on the high-end; the Radeon X1900 XT. I was really excited to get the X1900 XT and see what it had to offer. It really changed the way I play games and the feel of those games so let's take a look and see what it can do.
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Friday, January 12, 2007
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The Sapphire X1950 Pro Ultimate arrived Technic3D. As good is the Graphic Card X1950 Pro with Zalman Cooling and more Power really against others Graphic Cards? Technic3D will see that, with Overclocking, in the following Review.
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Monday, January 8, 2007
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Sapphire introduced their X1950 Pro just a short time ago and they have already updated it with new features. The flat heatsink/fan has been replaced with a cooler from Zalman. They also upped the memory speed which Sapphire claims to increase performance by 5%. I guess we will have to put it to the test.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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Standard speeds for the X1950XT-X are 650MHz core clock and 1GHz (2GHz effective) memory clock. This particular card has a higher core clock than standard, coming in at 695MHz, though memory speeds stay as standard. This is a fairly decent improvement, considering the X1950XT-X isn't known to be a huge overclocker, and will hopefully provide a noticeable boost in performance.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2006
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Sapphire's taken note of the X1950 Pro's current popularity and added another SKU to the lineup. The Sapphire X1950 Pro ULTIMATE features faster memory and a factory-fitted Zalman cooler as well as additional heatsinks for the RAM modules and power-delivery components. Read on to see if it's as deserving of praise as the regular Radeon X1950 Pro 256MiB card.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Out of all of the video card makers out there Sapphire is one of the names you hear the most. Probably because they are ATI's largest and best performing partner world wide. Today we will be taking a look at the Sapphire Radeon X1300 XT PCI-E video card. This video card features 256MB of GDDR3, CrossFire support, and is Vista ready. So let's take a look and see what this card can do.
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Sunday, November 26, 2006
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If you are looking for a cheap video card that will keep you running until Windows Vista and DirectX 10 are out you may want to look at the Sapphire X1650 Pro. The card will run most games on high details at 1024x768 without taking a sweat. It comes equipped with fast GDDR3 memory and the fan is temperature controlled to keep the noise levels down.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
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Images from both cards are exactly what you would expect from any modern relatively high-end card. They are exceptional. Both, however, showed some strengths and weaknesses. Without filtering the Nvidia card had more of a tendency for pixel shimmering than the ATI card. Pixel shimmer is the ugly sparkling that happens where a moving dark object meets a lighter one. It is usually very apparent in vegetation such as leaves on a tree blowing in the wind. At the point where they meet the sky the image shimmers unnaturally at the edges. Even with Bilinear or Trilinear filtering some pixel shimmer is apparent with both cards. But if you intend to run at 1280x1024 or 1024x768, you can still manage very good frame rates with the X1950 Pro with a good deal of both anisotropic and anti alias filtering.
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Monday, October 30, 2006
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The new ATI Radeon X1300 XT is based on the RV530 GPU core which is used on the X1600 series. That alone should bring quite a nice performance boost. On top of that Sapphire has added GDDR3 memory and a healthy clock increase. There is no need to run an overclocking software on your system, the increased clocks are stored in the BIOS. In our testing we saw a huge performance difference to the X1300 and almost no difference to the X1600 series.
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Friday, October 20, 2006
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CrossFire worked without fault, but it wasn't without complications. I decided to try a mixed pair of cards - the Sapphire and the PowerColor. No matter what I tried, I couldn't get them working in CrossFire. On top of that, but I would frequently find while moving cards around, trying different combinations and even trying to revert back to the two Sapphire cards, I would often boot in to a black screen in Windows. It would seem that ATI still have a few issues to iron out, but this is definitely a strong step in the right direction.
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