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Leadtek WinFast A300 Ultra TD MyVIVO A "Friendly" GeForceFX 5800 Ultra... By - Marco Chiappetta April 25, 2003 NVIDIA's latest flagship GPU the NV30, now known as the GeForce FX 5800, has been a long time coming. Products based on the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra are just now starting to arrive in very limited quantities. The first batch of products to ship to pre-order customers were all basically the same. They were all based on the same reference board design, and they all shipped with the now infamous "FX-Flow" cooler. Gainward was one of the first companies to show off an FX 5800 Ultra with a custom cooling solution, but their card still looked very similar...
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The Leadtek Winfast A250 Ultra TD The GeForce4 Ti Card With A Massive Heat Sink By -Dave Altavilla March 26 2002 We've been working with Leadtek hardware, here at HotHardware, since our beginning way back in late 1998. At that point in time, Leadtek was known for designing and building top end graphics cards with various chipsets, including workstation "professional" level graphics. Since that time, Leadtek has diversified its portfolio of product, with TV Tuners, Motherboards, EIDE/SCSI Controllers and even video conferencing technologies folding into the mix. However, what has always been a focus for Leadtek is producing consumer level graphics cards based on the latest...
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The Leadtek WinFast 5300MA All-in-one features at a stripped down price! Leadtek has been known for many years as a manufacturer of High End Graphics Cards. They have until now, stayed within the Video/Grpahics space. Like all healthy well established companies, occasionally it is time to diversify. Enter the Leadtek WinFast 5300MA Motherboard. Leatek, at this juncture, has teo motherboards available. The other board is a dual Slot 1. We reviewed this Super 7 Socket based, multimedia enhanced, all in one system board and were very impressed with the feature set. For starters this board comes with on board AGP Graphics and also on board 3D Sound! Here are the particulars... ...
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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 competitor, surely will remain the most dominant supplier of video chipsets to OEMs. Many companies that sell products using chipsets from nVidia, simply take nVidia's reference design and churn out cards that are essentially exact replicas. This practice makes is much harder to choose one product over another as they are all basically the same. Users are forced...
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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 has become commonplace. With this ?Boom? in the market, we?ve had the opportunity to see some really exciting products. But it is also becoming increasingly difficult for the buyer to discern which card has the right balance between features and price. If money is no object, then there isn?t too much to worry about. If it says ultra, it?s...
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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? model that will further establish their position. Being a dominant force in a single market segment isn?t enough for nVidia though. Their design win with the Microsoft X-Box should establish nVidia as a major player in the console market. They have an integrated chipset on the way which will surely be popular in the sub $1000 PC market and...
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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 reference design, mass produce it and market it under their recognized brand name. The advantage of this process is knowing you are getting a product based on a proven, tested design. The disadvantage is that differentiating one product from another becomes very difficult. Many times potential customers are forced to make their buying decisions based on...
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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 OEM manufacturers with lots of compelling technology to lure you into that next upgrade purchase. NVidia has certainly been contributing their fair share of product to the equation with their tireless six month new product introduction cycle. There is a ton of competing technology in the 3D Graphics space now and you, the blurry...
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The Leadtek WinFast 3D S320 II 4/30/99 Leadtek was absolutely the first OEM to release a Graphics Accelerator based on the NVIDIA TNT2 chip. We received a full Retail Release 32MB SGRAM Supported Card. This is a highly anticipated product as we all know, so I won't bore you with a long monologue. Let's get right to it! As I stated, our card came equipped with 32MB of SGRAM, a type of Synchronous DRAM specifically designed for video & graphics. This memory is designed to handle the high bandwidth requirements of today's PC Graphics Accelerators. The card had TV Out but no Flat Panel Output Capability. Leadtek will have a version that supports both very soon. Also, our card is officially...
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Needless to say, there sure has been a lot of hype and fan-fare on the net these days with respect to NVidia's next generation technology in 3D Graphics, The GeForce256 chip. High hopes have been built up on new levels of performance with this new technology. In addition new features are being touted as ground breaking enhancements in speed and image quality. We were pleased when Leadtek asked us to be one of the first review sites on the net to put their new GeForce256 based card through its paces. Let's take a look at Leadtek's WinFast GeForce256 and see what all the fuss is about! Click image for a larger view Physically, the WinFast...
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The Leadtek Winfast GeForce256 DDR Double Your Data Rate - Double Your Fun Semiconductor Technology is fascinating. An engineer will come up with a new technology that allows for a significant increase in performance over existing technology, as with the NVidia GeForce. As the new platform matures, the speed and throughput of given device is realized and the limitations are exposed. At that point, another brilliant engineer sets out to improve again on the initial design in an effort to alleviate the bottlenecks and achieve yet an even higher level of performance. As we all know, this process happens at an alarming rate in the Computer and Networking Industries as well...
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The GeForce2 GTS Has Arrived! And A Look At Leadtek's Winfast GeForce2 GTS 4/26/00 By Dave "Davo" Altavilla This week has been relentless. It is as if the WinHEC conference is the designated battle ground for the PC Graphics Industry and the war has been waged with a vengeance. Now if only we media types can keep up with the onslaught of announcements without burning out, life will be pretty good. Tonight the NDA for NVidia's next generation processor has been lifted. The following information will be presented as a two part piece. A look at the GeForce2 GTS GPU itself and also a card soon to be available from Leadtek, the Winfast GeForce2 GTS. ...
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