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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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Having the fastest graphics card on the market is a real PR coup for any manufacturer, but the real business comes from the mainstream sector. Enthusiast gamers will purchase the graphics card that gives them the best performance and features for their budget. Brand loyalty is not as prevalent in this area and from generation to generation it is the best value for money card which sells the most units. With the recent release of the Radeon 3850 and GeForce 8800 GS there is a new battle taking place for consumers with a budget of £100-£140 and today we have two such cards on our test bench, the XFX 8800 GS XXX 384Mb and the Sapphire 3850 256Mb. Which deserves your money?
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Monday, February 11, 2008
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A week back, we looked at the HD3870 and 8800GT cards now that they've been available for a while and drives matured. We found out that the 8800GT was the card of choice but ended the article by promising a showdown of these cards in dual card modes. Today we do just that- compare the 8800GT is SLI mode to the HD3870 in Crossfire mode. Lets find out if AMD can turn the tables.
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
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We're writing to let you all know that we've just posted a mid-range workstation-class GPU round-up at HotHardware. We look at three cards in particular - two from ATI and one from Nvidia. From ATI, we've got the new FireGL V5600 512 MB card along with the low-end FireGL V3600 256 MB card. And in the Nvidia camp, we've got the popular QuadroFX 1700 512 MB card. All three of these cards are very tolerable in terms of size, power consumption, noise, and (most of all) price. While one shouldn't expect top of the line performance from them, in our tests we found performance in many applications to be impressively good, proving that you don't need to spend four digits to get solid workstation performance. Head on over to the site and check them out...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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Today we shall examine 8 graphics card coolers from Arctic Cooling, Thermalright, Thermaltake, Zalman, and Zerotherm (including a liquid cooling unit). These will be tested with the reference NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT. After that we'll analyze test results from a computer enthusiast's point of view.
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Monday, February 4, 2008
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In this group test we compare the performance of six high end water blocks from Koolance, Danger Den, D-Tek, Swiftech and EnzoTech on an overclocked Intel Quad Core Processor. Which one keeps the CPU running the coolest? Read on to find out.
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We take a look at two Radeon HD 3870 cards which basically compete with the nVidia 8800GT series in terms of price and performance. One of these cards is by Gigabyte clocked at stock speed while the second card is an Overclocked Edition by MSI. Now that drivers have matured and games patched, let's find out how well the HD3870 compares to the 8800GT. We are only comparing these cards in single mode for today but will surely add a Crossfire/SLI analysis in a future article.
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Friday, February 1, 2008
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We take a look at two aftermarket alternatives to the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/GTX's stock cooler, the VF1000 LED from Zalman and the Hurricane HC92 from ZEROTherm. See which one took top honors in our testing!
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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We've tested four 3870 X2 cards from HIS, MSI, Powerolor (TUL), and GeCube. The first three copy the reference design (MSI card is overclocked though). And GeCube has customized its product in a rather unique way.
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Monday, January 28, 2008
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It's been more than a year since the first DirectX 10 graphics accelerator, containing the revolutionary G80, was presented to the public. Everyone should remember the delight it brought and the incredible performance which left all high-end competition in the dust. This time, we have a graphics card with the G92 chip on it, but the card is not from the 9xxx series as you might assume. The G92 is a carefully designed, polished version of the G80. Models based on this chip are named 8800GT and, should they appear in appropriate quantities, are bound to become very popular.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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With a new graphics card launch the initial batch of cards is followed by a flurry of enhanced models and the 8800 GT and GTS are no different. In today's review we will be taking a look at some of the more impressive enhanced models that are available, the first two products are supplied by XFX and Zotac and are factory overclocked GTS models. XFX are highly experienced in this area and while Zotac are relatively new to this sector this has not stopped them impressing us with previous overclocked models. In fact their 8800 GT AMP! Edition is still the fastest GT branded card we have tested. The third product in this review is Gainward's 8800 GT Golden Sample. Gainward have enhanced clock speeds on this particular card and have chosen to attach an impressive looking cooler and one gigabyte of memory. The heat is on ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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Today at HotHardware, we have two impressive workstation-class graphics card on the test bench. We've been given the opportunity to orchestrate a direct comparison of two of the most exciting graphics cards shipping today, AMD's ATI FireGL V8650 and NVIDIA's QuadroFX 5600. The V8650 is a monstrous version of ATI's R600 graphics processor with 2GB of memory attached, whereas the FX 5600 is the 1.5GB heavy workstation cousin of the GeForce 8800 Ultra, both of which use NVIDIA's G80 processor. Both cards are phenomenally large, as well. Head on over to the site and take a look...
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Friday, January 18, 2008
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For anyone buying a socket 775 motherboard the choice is now quite bewildering. For a while the number one choice was the 975X chipset but more recently the G33, P35, X38 and X48 have all been released with each targeting a specific market segment. Today we will be looking at the mainstream and enthusiast models to identify which boards offer the best value, performance and features.
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Today we'll focus on 21 Mid-End coolers and their tests. It won't be a traditional shootout-we don't want to wear our readers out and distract them from their preholiday cares. So we'll try to keep away from purely technical details, paying more attention to practice. We hope that our shootout will help you choose the right cooler in the new year.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
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The Albatron, EVGA and XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB video cards are all great cards that can play all the current games and overclock like no other. As you saw from the testing the different core clock, memory clock and shader clock frequencies vary from card to card and did impact performance. Higher clock frequencies did improve performance as the XFX card took the lead in nearly every single benchmark...
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Monday, January 7, 2008
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When it comes to DDR3 a 2GB kit will set you back anywhere from $199 for a 1333MHz kit to over $500 for an 1800MHz kit. Obviously, DDR3 memory is still for early adapters and enthusiasts, but prices are expected to drop significantly as the year goes on. Intel is getting ready to release more chipsets that support DDR3 memory with the Intel X48 Express chipset and NVIDIA is rumored to support DDR3 for the first time with their nForce 790i SLI chipsets. With both of these chipsets soon becoming the main component of their flagship performance platforms, it will lead to improved DDR3 memory sales. So, before those chipsets come out Legit Reviews gathered together four 1800MHz DDR3 memory kits from the leading memory companies here in North America. Corsair, Kingston, OCZ and Super Talent are familiar names here on Legit Reviews for good reason - they all make great enthusiast memory...
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