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ATI's Next Generation The Radeon 8500 and Radeon 7500 Review Untapped Power By Dave Altavilla 10/22/01 Once again we find...
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3/7/00 Introducing ATI's Next Generation Technology The ATI Charisma Engine and Pixel Tapestry Architecture Things are beginning to heat up for this years Game Developer's Conference. With only a day to go before the event, manufacturers are releasing the news on their latest technology in what seems like flood level proportion. ...
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A First Look AT The ATI Xpert 2000 Pro ATI?s Entry Level Speedster There are many different kinds of 3D accelerators out there, and not every one of them is meant to be the be-all-end-all of gaming. The sub-$1000 PC market and budget gamer market are HUGE right now. Within that market you?re not going to find DDR GeForces all over...
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4/24/00 ATI's Radeon - The Rage 6 Revealed! ATI?s Radeon 256 Preview 4/24/2000 By, Marco ?BigWop? Chiappetta and Dave "Davo" Altavilla Spring is upon us and with the new season, usually comes the new product announcements from the major graphics hardware players. So far, 3dfx and nVidia (sort of) have given us...
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STB's Desktop TV TV, FM Radio, Video Capture and Edit Delivered to your desktop! This week we had the pleasure of testing a new product from the Industry Graphics Giant, STB Systems. I was more than happy to have the opportunity to check this board out, as I expected "the fun factor" to be high....
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The Leadtek Winfast GeForce 2 MX DH Pro An MX With all the Goodies... By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta December 21, 2000 As a hardware review site, we come across many products competing for the same space in a particular market. No where is this more evident than the video card market. nVidia has been, and now that there is one less...
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The Elsa Gladiac Ultra It sure is fast...but you'll pay for it! By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta - November 14, 2000 Anyone who remotely follows the PC hardware scene has no doubt become familiar with nVidia and their very aggressive product cycles. Ever since the Riva 128 was released, nVidia has consistently and...
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Elsa Gladiac 920 Video Card More GeForce 3 Action! By, Jeff Bouton October 11, 2001 When it comes to graphics cards, there is no arguing that ELSA is among the industry leaders. For over 20 years they have been producing top quality graphics cards, as well as other computer peripherals geared toward both the commercial...
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Elsa's Erazor III & Revelator 3D Eye Glasses ! A Dynamic Duo! (Benchmarks) Well, needless to say, we did put the Erazor III through its paces. Overall we expected to see a bit of a hit in various framerates due to the Erazor III's lower clock frequencies. What we discovered was a little surprising. Check it out.......
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Elsa's Erazor III & Revelator 3D Eye Glasses ! A Dynamic Duo! Click for larger image What's better than a hot new TNT2 based AGP card? How about a TNT2 based AGP video card bundled with 3D Stereo Eye Glasses? We recently received Elsa's new Erazor III TNT2, 32MB AGP card and it came with a nice surprise, The...
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Elsa's Erazor X - GeForce & Revelator 3D Shutter Glasses Breaking out from the "me too" crowd. Now that NVidia GeForce based cards are beginning to flow more freely, the race is beginning to blur a little with many vendors producing "me too" products based solely on the NVidia reference design. This is a look...
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The Elsa Erazor X2 GeForce DDR Double Data Rate Fun Over the past few months NVidia clearly has taken the lead in the 3D graphics race. First we saw the release of GeForce based card from various vendors like Creative, Asus, Guillemot, Leadtek and of course Elsa. The second round of GeForce based cards were designed the way the...
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Guillemot's Maxi Sound Fortissimo A lot of bang for your buck By Marco ?BigWop? Chiappetta March 19, 2000 The Maxi Sound Fortissimo is a product for value minded people looking for high dollar quality. We know there are many people out there that would look into a Live! Platinum or an Aureal SQ2500 but don?t have $100-$200 to drop...
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Matrox has been in the Graphics Card business since the invention of electricity. OK, so maybe that's a little overstated but when it comes to PC Graphics, Matrox is the "Grand Daddy". They have always been known for high end accelerators built with the Computer Professional in mind. CAD and other Desktop Graphics Applications...
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The Matrox Millennium G450 - 32MB Dual Head New Levels Of Integration for the Multimedia Fanatic and Corporate User By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 9/5/00 As technology moves on, new markets are exploding for Personal Computing. The Business and Corporate Sector was the dawn of the information and computing age and it is still a very...
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Gigabyte's GA-GF2560 SDR GeForce Get overclocked and ready to rock! So, you are thinking, "great another GeForce SDR Graphics Card review". On the surface, your aversion to mundane and "been there, done that" type of products and their respective reviews, could be well founded. HOWEVER, not this time...
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A Tale of Two TNT2s The Gigabyte GA660 Turbo Vrs. The MSI 3DAGPhantom We brought in the wreckin' crew for this event. Like a Demolition Team with a bad attitude, we decided to mix up a couple of explosive substances and see what kind of reaction we would get. This is a "Bake Off" of sorts between a pair of TNT2 cards from...
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The GA-GF2000 GF256 GTS 32MB DDR Super stable and Super Fast, Gigabyte Does it right... By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta 8/21/00 As more and more companies diversify their product lines to offer motherboards and video cards, many similar products will begin to hit store shelves. Companies like Asus, Abit and Gigabyte have...
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The Gigabyte GV-GF3000 64MB GeForce 3 Prepare Yourself... By, Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta May 15, 2001 With the impending release of any new product, there is an inevitable barrage of spin and marketing hype surrounding it. When nVidia officially unveiled the GeForce 3, the "spin-miesters" really went to work, as almost every...
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The Gainward GeForce3 Power Pack !!! Golden Sample Tastefully Selected GeForce3 Goodness By Dave Altavilla 9/10/01 GeForce3 cards are in total abundance these days. As an OEM, to compete in this space and get more than your fair share of the market, one must differentiate. With the plethora of "reference design" cards...
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The nVidia GeForce 2 MX-400 What's old is what's new... By, Jeff Bouton April 23, 2001 Ever since they first introduced the GeForce line of GPU's, nVidia has made it clear that they live by their motto, "We Want to Push Every Pixel on the Planet". With ever improving models being produced at a feverish pace, they have made...
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The NVidia GeForce 2 MX Top End Performance At Bargain Basement Prices - And It Over-clocks too! By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 7/7/00 There is something strange about 3D Graphics Cards that brings out the "crazies" in people. What amuses me the most is when people get into very emotional and heated discussions in...
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