Items tagged with fx
Long time no see ;) I am back to inform you that we've just posted a review of AOpen's GeForce FX 5900 XT. Like some other recently released 5900 XTs, this model from AOpen comes pre-overclocked, with a core clock speed that's a full 30MHz higher than NVIDIA's recommendations. It's got a custom cooling solution, a decent...
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2004 is easily shaping up to be a banner year for the graphics card market as NVIDIA and ATI continue to trade blows with their high-end offerings. We've seen huge increases in performance between the current and last generation of video cards from both manufacturers, and the competition is as intense as ever. Today, there are...
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Good evening friends, welcome back. From the looks of my inbox, the news has been flowing at a good rate throughout the day. There seems to be articles from all different aspects of the hardware scene tonight, so, everyone should be happy. Go grab a chair; I am starting to serve... AOpen AX4SPE Max II motherboard @...
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Good Evening Folks! Just in case you missed the link at the top of the page, I'm here to let you know that we've just posted a review of eVGA's Personal Cinema FX 5700. This card is eVGA's answer to the very popular ATi "All-In-Wonder" line of products. We've compared its features and performance to a Radeon 9600 XT and a GeForce FX 5700 Ultra....
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It's been a long time since several pioneering companies bridged the gap between the TV and the PC. What initially started out as a novelty is now driving the industry in a new direction with the merging of TV and Radio with the personal computer. Today, thanks to faster hardware, and the advent of the mini-PC, manufacturers and...
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Good afternoon folks! We've just posted a review of BFG's GeForce FX 5900XT OC. As its name implies, BFG has taken the GeForce FX 5900XT and overclocked the core a bit to give the card a little more horsepower. Click here and check it out......
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Our first look at the GeForce FX 5900XT was way back in December 2003, and we were mightily impressed by the performance of the original sample sent to us by e-VGA, one of Nvidia's launch partners. We've reviewed a few other 5900XTs since then, and we've recently received two new models, one of which was the card we took a look at last...
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Good evening friends, welcome back to HotHardware :) Sorry about the later edition of news today, but the info-flow has been moving at a snails pace. Nonetheless, we managed to scrounge up a few tidbits for you to read over. Here is yours evening shot of juice... NU SBW-242 External Combo Drive Review @...
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Good morning friends :) Things around the HH labs have been humming with activity over the past few days. With our newest member of the HH Crew, Rudy, firing up his first review and our other members preparing to unleash their reviews, this week is going to be a busy one. But you know us, the busier...
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Good morning folks, I hope you survived the night okay :) In the effort of saving time this AM, we are going to skip over the banter and get right down to business. So, go grab a cup of coffee and settle in for a long read. Here is your morning shot of juice... Athlon 64 FX-53 & Athlon 64 3800+...
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Since we last took a look at their Athlon 64 FX-53 back in March, AMD has remained relatively quiet. There was a low profile release of the mid-range Athlon 64 2800+ into the channel, but nothing really new has come from CPU lines at AMD for almost 3 months, which is an eternity in "silicon years". AMD's relative...
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Good Morning Folks! BW here to let you all know that we've just posted a review of AMD's brand new 939-pin Athlon 64 FX-53 and Athlon 64 3800 processors. With these new CPUs, the flagship FX no longer requires registered memory and the 3800 is built using a new core dubbed "Newcastle" that loses 512K of cache, but gains a 128-bit...
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Good evening my friends, welcome back :) As you can see, the dust from constructing our new home is slowly settling to the ground. But, as BigWop eluded to this AM, we still have a few tricks up our proverbial sleeve. In the mean time, you will just have to suffer through piles of news and...
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Good afternoon HH fans! It's your friendly neighborhood Italian checking in with a mid-day sampling of tasty hardware goodness! The news is flowing freely today, so there's quite a bit of stuff to get to. I'm also working on a review of our own which should be posted shortly. Check back later for that review, and for...
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Welcome back my friends :) Things around the Canadian portion of the HH lab have been a bit on the quiet side for the past few days due to my cold. Thankfully, I awoke this morning feeling much better then I had over the weekend. Needless to say, I have a bit of work that needs tending too ;)...
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The MSI GeForce FX5900XT-VTD128 A Value Priced Powerhouse... By, Marco Chiappetta March 25, 2004 With all of the fan-fare reserved for high-end cards powered by NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5950 Ultra or ATi's Radeon 9800 XT, its easy to forget that these expensive products comprise only small percentage of the overall...
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Sneak Peek: NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5700 Ultra with GDDR3 RAM By, Marco Chiappetta March 24, 2004 Monday, March 22, 2004: Good afternoon folks! An interesting package just landed in the lab, that we thought you'd like to take a look at. At first glance, the card below looks like an ordinary GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, but upon...
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AMD's Athlon 64 FX-53 The FX Gets Its First Speed Bump... By, Marco Chiappetta March 18, 2004 Almost 6 months have passed since the initial release of the AMD Athlon 64. In September '03, AMD released two new desktop processors, the Athlon 64 3200+ clocked at 2.0GHz and a premium product dubbed the Athlon 64 FX-51, clocked at 2.2GHz. ...
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The MSI FX5950 Ultra-VTD256 NVIDIA's Flagship GPU, MSI Style... By, Marco Chiappetta February 12, 2004 After facing some fierce competition from ATi's R3x0 GPUs and fielding a mountain of criticism regarding questionable driver "optimizations", NVIDIA has had to deal with quite a bit of adversity as of late. They have also...
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eVGA's e-GeForce FX 5900SE A curiously named GeForce card hits the market By Robert Maloney December 15th, 2003 It seems like only yesterday we were testing the latest and greatest releases from both ATi and NVIDIA, as each company tried to one-up the other in the mainstream graphics market. While we were pleased with the ATi Radeon...
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The BFG Asylum GeForce FX 5700 Ultra 128MBs, AGP 8X, and the Muscle to Get the Job Done! By, Jeff Bouton December 11, 2003 As 2003 comes to a close, we have to wonder if NVIDIA is looking to 2004 with eager anticipation. The last year has been tough for them, to say the least, with a number of nagging issues plaguing the embattled graphics...
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The AOpen Aeolus FX5600S AOpen Enters the Mainstream with Some Punch By - Tom Laverriere December 3, 2003 NVIDIA and ATi currently offer PC graphics solutions they refer to as "mainstream" products, since that is the kind of card you will find in an average (versus "enthusiast") system, where the bulk of the market volume...
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