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Leadtek PS7900 GS TDH 256MB

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 | News, Video Card Reviews | View Comments

This Leatek video card, based on the GeForce 7900 GS chipset comes with a pretty good set of extras and a good cooling solution.

Keeping the card cool and only spinning up enough to be heard when temperatures get quite high, Leadtek have done a good job at making this budget oriented card quiet. The cooler is reminiscent of a 6800 GT cooler.

The card comes with two games, Serious Sam 2 and Spell Force 2 as well as Cyberlink PowerDVD 6 and a utility CD. Also included is a DVI-to-VGA connector, S-video combi cable and a 6 pin PCIe power adapter.

Testing at bit-tech shows that the card places itself well amongst the other cards of the same type. There is very little difference between one card based on the 7900GS and another, the main difference comes in their cooling solutions and the extras that you get with the card.

The card itself has room for about a 33% overclock using the standard overclocking software that comes with the card. A pretty good card at a reasonable price.

Check out the full review at bit-tech

Asus releases 4 new video cards

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 | News, Video Card Reviews | View Comments

Asus recently released 4 new video cards, the Radeon X1950XTX & Radeon X1950 Crossfire and the GeForce 7950GT & 7900GS.

The radeon’s come in two different flavors, one with and one without crossfire capabilities. HDR effects, adaptive anti-aliasing, shader 3.0 and up to 512MB of DDR4 memory are also part of the package. Both are based on the same VPU.

The non-crossfire version offers a little more for those who hope to use the graphics card with their hdtv and comes with whole host of adapters for connecting it up.

The GeForce cards are two different offerings. The GT is a faster variation based on the the 7950GT VPU and comes with 512MB of DDR4 memory.

The 7900GS offers much better value for your money and is the more budget oriented offering. It also offers great performance but without the massive cash layout. It is based on the Nvidia GeForce 7900GS VPU and comes with 256MB of memory.

All the cards except the 7900GS are Windows Vista ready.

Read the full articles: Radeon X1950XTX & Radeon X1950 Crossfire and the GeForce 7950GT & 7900GS via techPowerUp!

Workstation graphics card comparisson

Thursday, September 21st, 2006 | News, Video Card Reviews | View Comments

Rojak’s Pot have released a new revision to their workstation graphics card comparisson.

The range includes Nvidia, ATI and Matrox for their lineup. No actual testing here, but a good overall impression of what the different cards are specced to do.

Included in the overview are architecture, manufacturing process, transistor count, open GL support specs, vertex pipelines, vertex shader version, pixel pipelines and pixel shader version supported.

Core speed, geometry rate, fill rate, memory bus width and finally memory type, speed and bandwidth.

Read it here.

Massive Graphics Card roundup at Tomshardware

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 | News, Video Card Reviews | View Comments

Tomshardware have produced a massive writeup on 20 graphics cards. Giving details on all of these cards gives a good idea of what to expect from the video card you want to buy.

Although there is often not much to the purchase of a video card, and usually it makes little difference if you just use the computer for standard tasks anyway, and don’t push it far, it’s different when you require high-level performance.

The test is extensive, covering most of the cards they have in their stores, looking at how each of them performs and comparing them. If you do need to get a card, make sure to check this list first.

Looking at the different chipsets that come with the different levels of cards there are some conclusions to be made.

GeForce 7600 GT based cards were found to be similar in performance to Radeon X1800 GTO cards. The GeForce was found to be better, because of cooler performance. With only 256MB of RAM it gets good performance.

Although 7800 GT and GTX cards have a hard time keeping up with the Radeon X1800 XT, they are being phased out the 7900 series cards, which perform better then their ATI counterparts.

Radeon X1900 XTX based cards perform a little faster than GeForce 7900 GTX cards. The Nvidia’s have better cooling, but this might not mean as much to those who are simply looking for the fastest card out there.

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ATI Crossfire X1600PRO/X1800XT/X1900XTX Video Cards Review

Thursday, April 6th, 2006 | News, Video Card Reviews | View Comments

From: motherboards.org

X1900 Crossfire is currently the fastest, most feature-rich, highest image quality solution I’ve ever tested. The performance of two X1900s is simply mind-blowing when a game works with it properly. NVIDIA has a solution with four GPUs, Quad-SLI but this isn’t on the market in any numbers as of yet and will cost the buyer 2x or more a Crossfire setup. X1800 Crossfire is shown here simply to give a sense of performance if you buy a second X1800 card. X1600 Crossfire is an interesting choice in that the cards can work without a Crossfire cable.

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