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Latest News - January 2006
- R580 Architecture Interview
- X3 Reunion Demo Explored
- Major OEMs and System Builders Choose ATI's Radeon X1900
- SAPPHIRE SCORCHES IN WITH NEW X1900 SERIES
- Getting Started with Video Editing: Cheap Software
- PICO-PSU (smallest psu worldwide) Review
- HIS X1900XTX, XT, CrossFire Press Release
- Radeon X1900XT Reviews
- Google Video Store: The Experiment is Showing Signs of Improvement
- 3DMark06 Quirks Confuse Us All
- Dan's Data Letter #159
- Latest R580 News
- GeForce 7300 GS Benchmarks
- Asus Extreme AX1800 XT TOP
- 2GB Memory Kit Shootout
- ATI RD580 Delayed?
- An Introduction to Thermaltake's BTX Form Factor Cases
- Running high VDIMM & low VCORE you risk to killing your Athlon 64 CPU
- ASUS EAX1800XT TOP (Radeon X1800 XT 512MB)
- A Look At New Laptop Technology
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All News for January 2006
The gang at Beyond3D have formulated a long list of technical questions regarding ATI's new R580 architecture and have published their findings. Receiving input from both Eric Demers of the Desktop Graphics Engineering group and Richard Huddy from ISV relations, there is a suprising level of detail shared throughout the discussion. If the...
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Anandtech has published a brief overview of the new X3 Reunion demo which will likely become a widely used benchmarking tool. The team tests the demo on a wide variety of processors and GPU's to help illustrate how demanding this new demo truly is. Although a GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB was included, it would have been interesting to see how the...
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Major OEMs and System Builders Choose ATI's Radeon(R) X1900 Radeon(R) X1900 products available immediately around the world MARKHAM, ON – January 24, 2006 – ATI (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) today launched and has made available its newest graphics processors for gaming and multimedia enthusiasts, the Radeon(R) X1900. The Radeon X1900...
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SAPPHIRE SCORCHES IN WITH NEW X1900 SERIES Delivering the highest levels of graphics performance ever achieved in the PC industry, Sapphire Technology has just introduced its latest new series of graphics accelerators with the most sophisticated and powerful graphics processing solutions yet. The exciting new RADEON X1900 series is a development...
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PC Mechanic has produced a good rundown of some entry level video editing software. While they've capped the cash limit to $100, there are some excellent free programs listed, such as VirtualDub and Jahshaka Effects. "Video editing is taking the world by storm. Everywhere you look, you see...
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Some of you will remember the little bit of information we posted on this nifty device a while back. Well today Epiacenter has the product, and are ready to share their opinion on the world's smallest PSU. How small is it? It's really, really small. "It's just a little bit larger then a normal...
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HIS X1900XTX, XT, CrossFire Press Release HIS delivers the fastest consumer 3D graphics processor on the planet - HIS X1900XTX, HIS X1900XT and HIS X1900 CrossFire Edition graphic cards, the world's most advanced 3D technology by ATI. Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan 24, 2006 - HIS (Hightech Information System Limited) delivers the HIS X1900XTX, HIS...
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ATI has just launched their new flagship, with the arrival of the new Radeon X1900 series of GPU's. The new high-end X1900 GPU has triple the number of shader units as the X1800, for a total of 48 pixel shaders! For the latest and greatest concerning ATI's new GPU, be sure to read Marco's review here and find out whether this core is...
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Be it software, service, or just about anything else, there's almost always some teething problems. Google's Video Store is certainly no exception. As Ars Technica explains, there are some serious issues Google needs to deal with, and some areas Google is improving on. ...
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What's a software release without a few bugs/quirks? The recently released 3DMark 06 from Futuremark can give some misleading numbers under certain circumstances. HDR is a new feature in the synthetic benchmark, and is a feature that requires full Shader model 3.0 support. As The Inquirer explains, this fact can give some interesting results...
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Dan is back with more data than you can shake a stick at(now that's a lot of data!). In Letter #159, Dan jumps around from LED grow lights, to mercury in fish, and even covers a few things in between. " Simple LED arrays with current limiting resistors rather than fancy driver hardware, all...
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Today, we've seen a few interesting bits of news show up on the web concerning ATI's next-generation R580 flagship GPU. The Register reports that Japanese vendors already have the cards on hand and that a note inside the boxes claims some pretty serious power requirements. On its own, a single R580 card requires a 450W PSU with 30A on the...
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HKEPC have posted the first public benchmarks we've seen for the new 90u GeForce 7300 GS entry-level GPU. Matched against a GeForce 6500 128MB and an ATI Radeon X1300LE 128MB, it was more than a bit surprising to see NVIDIA's latest GPU fail to dominate the previous generation cards. Although we're not sure which drivers were used or...
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Ryan and the gang at PC Perspective have just published their review of the Asus Extreme AX1800 XT TOP flagship graphics card. Based on the X1800 GPU, the card is overclocked well beyond reference clock frequencies. This monster of a graphics card also features a beefy heatsink assembly that should effectively cool the GPU while keeping noise...
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Anandtech has published the second part of their roundup of 2GB DDR kits to see which memory vendors should be receiving your hard-earned cash. With nearly every major memory vendor represented, the article does a good job of rounding up the usual suspects and weeding out the less than stellar performers. In the end, the editor has no problem...
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The Inquirer reports that they are receiving word that ATI's upcoming RD580 Crossfire chipset will be slightly delayed until late February or early March. Based on a new Xpress 3200 chipset, RD580 should provide a healthy increase in performance as well as address several of the shortfalls of ATI's previous chipsets. For those looking to mate...
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Last week we brought word of BTXFormFactor's introduction to Cooler Master's BTX offerings. Tonight we have more BTX goodness from the same guys, this time covering Thermaltake's line of BTX cases. "Founded in 1999, Thermaltake has grown into one of the world leaders in computer cooling devices,...
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Some good info was sent to us by the folks at Xtreme Systems today. You extreme overclockers out there might want to be careful when running a high vdimm and a low vcore with Athlon 64 E die CPU, as you could end up ruining your processor. Those of you with OCZ's VX should take notice. ...
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ASUS has continuously put out quality card after card. Always embracing high-end hardware, Hardware Zone reviews the ASUS EAX1800XT TOP, which comes overclocked and a fairly quiet cooler. It's hard to get better than that. "All that fancy cooling on the EAX1800XT TOP is nothing but a single-minded...
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The folks over a Laptop Gamers decided to cover some current and emerging technology for laptops. Features like dual-core CPUs, and PCI-Express have recently graced the portable machines, and there's some great looking tech on the way such as possible 19 or 20 inch screens. "But laptop technology...
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Good afternoon everyone. It looks like NVIDIA's recently announced entry-level GeForce 7300 GS is on sale in some Asian and Chinese markets already... - BlueIdea - MSI - Maxsun (China Local Brand Holder) - Jetway It hasn't hit store shelves in the United States just yet, but we've already got a card en route by way of XFX, so they should be...
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The Pentium-D 900 series is the next evolution in Intel's Dual-Core plans. The Pentium-D 900 offers a total of 2MB of L2 cache per core while also adding support for Virtualization. Thanks to an improve 65nm manufacturing process, the Pentium-D 900 series also offers lower power consumption as well. Building on "Smithfields'...
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