This card is begging to be overclocked
Subject: Graphics Cards | November 1, 2005 - 06:26 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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PimpRig has a look at the Sapphire X800 GTO2 Limited Edition 256MB PCIe Video Card. It's a slightly faster X800, with great overclocking potential, and more. It has 12 pipelines, as you'd expect, but with a flash, you can mod it into a 16 pipleine card, like the 850's, at about half the price. Then you overclock that, and end up with an X800 than outperforms a vanilla X850. You really want to read the whole article!
"The Sapphire X800 GTO2 was modestly launched recently
The Guru Delivers - nVHardPage SE version 3.2
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 31, 2005 - 11:54 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Guru of 3D's nVHardPage SE lets you tweak settings on your video card, through an easy to use software program, and they've updated it to version 3.2. If you use it, update it ... if you've never tried it, maybe you should give it a try and see if you can breed a bit more life into your old nVidia card.
"Do you seek an easy way to en/disable overclocking options or vsync your ForceWare driverswithout the burden of importing registry entries or the need to go in that registry yourself ?
DDR4 - Coming soon to a GPU near you
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 28, 2005 - 11:57 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Inquirer reports on Samsung's new GDDR4 chips, which are currently undergoing testing. If they deliver, they will double the bandwidth of current GDDR3 chips.
"The latency of the shipped modules is set at 0.8 nanoseconds, which limits the highest clockspeed
of the memory to an astonishing 1.25 GHz in DDR mode.
It does not take a braniac to calculate the possible bandwidth on G80/R580 boards: 32-bytes
(256-bit) x 1.25 (GHz) x 2 (DDR) results in 80GB/s of theoretical bandwidth, almost double the
currently
The many faces of the R480
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 27, 2005 - 12:43 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Bjorn3D puts the HIS X800GT and GTO head to head in a review that also incorporates 6 other video cards. As with many other reviews, most ratings are shown twice, once for pure performance, and once as performance versus price.
"While ATI is busy showing off their new products it is easy to forget that they still have a
pretty nice line-up already out.
Stronger! Faster! Better! Cheaper?!?
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 25, 2005 - 06:41 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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PC Modding Malaysia discovers an interesting fact about the XFX GeForce 7800 GT. It is a better performing card than the 6800 Ultra, and costs around $100 less. Keep that in mind if you're upgrading, but aren't looking to spend $500+.
"All in all, the XFX GeForce 7800 GT is a stunning graphics card. The package was impressive and
the bundled games are pretty good. This 7800 GT comes factory overclocked and it runs pretty cool
even at overclocked speeds.
Walk quietly with a big Heat Stick
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 24, 2005 - 12:08 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Legion Hardware reviews ASUS' Extreme X800 Silencer. As the name implies, this is a new ATI card that runs dead silently. The heatpipes heatsink may be huge, but with it you can overclock this thing very well.
"This new passive cooling design by ASUS has proven to deliver exceptional performance while
operating with complete silence. The demand for silent cooling methods has become increasingly
popular as volume has become a real concern over the past few years.
Do you have what it takes to play with the Strogg?
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 20, 2005 - 12:03 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Hardware Zone got their hands on Quake 4, and a bunch of high end video cards. See what you need to be able to enjoy your assault on the Strogg's!
"The latest installment of the legendary Quake series has arrived and we put it through our lab
tests to find out how it fares with various graphics hardware. Though based on the Doom 3 game
engine, we've found that Quake 4 needs much more juice.
Discount X850XT appears, the X800GTO
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 19, 2005 - 01:35 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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With the release of the expensive X850XT, ATI has found it's self with extra R480 cores. The solution they came up with was to use the same core in their X800GTO, a card that costs roughly half as much. TweakTown can give you the whole story on what this card can do.
"With all the hype surrounding the new generation ATI graphics cards, there are people who don't
have that kind of money to spend.
Crossfire and SLI got you down? Try SDGE!
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 18, 2005 - 05:33 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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CoolTechZone looks at ECS's SDGE, their answer to ATI and nVidia. It is incredibly adaptable, running
mixes like PCIe x16 + PCIe x4, PCIe x8 + PCIe x8, PCIe x16 + PCIe x16. Also, in the future more combos may be included, like PCIe x16 + AGP Express, AGP 8x + PCIe Express, Integrated Graphics + AGP Express and Integr
7800GT vs x1800xl Review
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 18, 2005 - 03:49 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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AMD Review has a head to head contest up ... it pits ATI's current flagship card against nVidia's. Check it out to see which gives you more bang for your buck.
"Today we got our hands on both an ATI X1800XL and NVIDIA 7800GT, so we decided to benchmark each of these cards with the same configuration to see what happens and how much bang you get for your buck."
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