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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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The Gigabyte GA660Plus - TNT2-A What a difference a "rev." makes! Most companies dealing with circuit board design and manufacturing go through a refinement process of their product which makes improvements to the original release product with each iteration. Gigabyte had a little help from NVidia, the manufacturers of the TNT2 chip,...
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The Elsa Gladiac Based on the NVidia GeForce2 GTS With 32MB DDR SDRAM By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 6/4/00 Graphics Card reviews are probably the most regularly covered material that we produce here at Hot Hardware. Perhaps that is because there is an almost dizzying array of manufacturers to choose from. Regardless,...
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The Elsa Gladiac 64MB DDR GeForce 2 GTS You Do Play Games, Right? By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta 9/24/00 To say the video card market is saturated with GeForce 2 powered video cards right now would be an understatement. With nVidia being the last of the major chip vendors, they are the only real option for companies like Elsa,...
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The Elsa Gloria II Quadro SDR Professional Graphic Solutions for High-End 3D Applications May 26, 2000 - By John "Tool" Fiegener Allow me to introduce myself. My name is John Fiegener. I am the Founder and Owner of tool. Inc. We are a Product Design Group specializing in mechanical design of products mainly...
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The Hercules Game Theater XP Hercules is Breakin' Out! By Jeff Bouton May 22, 2001 Today, it seems that if you ask someone what kind of sound card they have installed in their system, more often than not, the answer is "...a Sound Blaster Live..." Without a doubt, Creative has garnered a huge stake in the PC audio market,...
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The Hercules Prophet II GTS 64MB Guillemot or Hercules? Either way you spell it, we see performance and quality By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 10/5/00 If you go WAY back, 1982 to be exact which is like an eternity in "net years", with a tenure the PC Industry, you'll know that Hercules was the first company ever...
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The Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra So Cool...it's blue... By, Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta January 4, 2001 Way back in 1982, the technology behind the Hercules monochrome graphics adapter became an established PC standard (I actually had one...Geez, I'm ancient!). For many years to follow, it was commonplace to find Hercules products...
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The X-Micro Hulk V GeForce 2 MX New kid on the block... By, Jeff Bouton December 14, 2000 I'm sure most of you are looking at this article and wondering, "Who is X-Micro"? Wasn't the Hulk a bad television show from the seventies? Well X-Micro is a relatively new company to enter the video card market. Formed in...
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The Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 Kyro II Powered Goodness... By, Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta July 12, 2001 Something dawned on me when I sat down to begin writing this review. The STMicroelectronics Kyro II powered Hercules 3D Prophet 4500, is the first video card that I have reviewed since July 2000, that is not powered by an nVidia...
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The Kyro II... IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES: NEXT GENERATION KYRO IIT 3D GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR 12TH MARCH 2001 IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES' PARTNER STMICROELECTRONICS ANNOUNCES NEXT GENERATION KYRO II(tm) 3D GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR AND CUSTOMER HERCULES Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG), the leading provider of human computer interface intellectual...
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The Enhanced Leadtek Winfast GeForce GTS Chock full of good stuff... By, Jeff Bouton December 28, 2000 It seems like every time you turn around these days, a leading manufacturer releases yet another new video card on the market. Ever since the release of nVidia?s line of GeForce/GeForce2 GPUs, the introduction of powerful display cards...
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The Leadtek Winfast GeForce 2 MX Worth every cent...and then some... By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta 10/10/00 nVidia has been on a roll as of late. They are seemingly starting to dominate the performance gamer market with their powerful GeForce 2 GTS. As if that wasn?t good enough, they will soon be releasing an ?Ultra?...
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The Leadtek WinFast GeForce3 TD A Reference Design With Attitude... By, Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta June 27, 2001 Now that the GeForce 3 has been widely available for a few weeks, we find ourselves in the same situation we we've been in numerous times before, since the days of the Voodoo2. Manufacturers follow a standard...
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The Leadtek WinFast GeForce 3 Ti500 TD... Yes, There is a Video Card Under all that Metal! By, Marco Chiappetta November 15, 2001 Here we are again, in the same predicament we have found ourselves in many times before. With the release of a "new" NVIDIA GPU, inevitably comes an onslaught of cards all based on a standard reference...
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The Leadtek Winfast GeForce2 GTS The next generation GeForce makes its HotHardware debut 5/5/00 By Dave "Davo" Altavilla Options, that's what typifies the Graphics Card Market at this point in time. I don't think I have ever seen a time when there were so many 3D Accelerators to choose from. There are so many different...
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The Skywell Magic TNT TNT Power at bargain basement prices! When nVidia's first generation TNT Video Chipset came into the market place, the industry was amazed at the raw performance of a product that actually had the ability to rival 3dfx's Voodoo 2 chipset. Time marched on at the fast and steady pace that drives the PC industry...
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