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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
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Whilst the real performance users may be a little disappointed not to have new boards available with higher specifications than the 580, those on a budget have a plethora of new boards to choose from and we have two such products to test today, Sapphires Pure Innovation and MSIs K9GAM2. Lets see how they compare to one of the current value segment leaders, the Asus M2NPV-VM.
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Saturday, March 3, 2007
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Despite not being a graphical powerhouse, and only offering a basic 640x480 gaming experience, the RS690 still does far more than the widely used Intel G965 integrated chipset will ever do, for those who enjoy a splash of gaming. Now that popular OEMs (like Dell and HP) are investing more heavily in AMD, we should see more affordable, 3D capable machines arriving in people's homes in time for the inevitable Vista upgrade.
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Thursday, March 1, 2007
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It was great to see AMD's 690G beat out the NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE and do so at a lower level of power consumption on games like Quake 4, F.E.A.R. and Company of Heroes. When it comes to the performance level of the integrated graphics it's clear that AMD has taken the lead for the time being. The feather in AMD's hat is the native support of HDMI and DVI outputs, which is a big deal for those looking to build a home theater personal computer (HTPC). The AMD 690G is currently the only platform on the market where you can have simultaneous independent digital outputs of DVI and HDMI...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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The AMD 690G chipset is finally launched today and we take a quick look a one of the first few motherboard samples available - the ECS AMD690GM-M2 - to see how the new Radeon X1250 graphics core performs. Check out our first hand experience with the AMD 690G right here.
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AMD's 690 Chipset Series is the first new product since the AMD/ATI merger in October last year. The RS690 is designed to be a low-cost, power efficient Athlon64 chipset which can be used in notebooks and desktop PCs. It features integrated VGA with support for HDMI and DVI - at the same time. With motherboards retailing in the $60 range this chipset has great potential on the budget market.
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