 ASUS EAH 4890/HTDI/1GDD5/A RADEON HD 4890 Preview
We will have an extensive test of this new video card but I thought I would give a preview of one of the better HD 4890 cards out there before the card is finished testing. The ASUS EAH4890/HTDI/1GDD5/A card shares many common fea...  XFX GeForce GTS250 Video Card Review
The XFX GeForce GTS 250 Core Edition video card is available online for $129.99 off Newegg. For a limited time, you can purchase the card and get Call of Duty World at War as a bonus. The inclusion of a free game makes the purchas...  Zotac GeForce GTX285 AMP! 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 Review
ZOTAC is a new company to me with this being the first product I've reviewed from them. From a performance point of view, the GeForce GTX285 is the fastest single chip card on the market today, and ZOTAC's card comes clocked highe...  ASUS ENGTX260 HTDP 896M A Video Card Review
The ASUS ENGTX260 / HTDP / 896M / A video card is an interesting mix of the latest NVIDIA technology (in the form of 216 cores, 55nm version available, PhysX) and a reasonable price (239.99 after MIR as of this writing). Performan...  XFX GeForce GTX280 XXX Edition Review
The fastest video card with a single graphics chip is definitely the GeForce GTX 280 and the XFX XXX edition is clocked 68MHz higher than the reference board, meaning that the XFX GeForce GTX 280 XXX Edition outperforms its other ...  MSI R4870 T21G ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB Review
The 4870 from MSI performs better than the ATI reference card across the board, mainly due to the improved clock speed over the original. The card is available online for a retail price of $299.99 making it a decent buy. The card ...  XFX 9800GTX Plus Black Edition Review
The 9800GTX+ Black Edition from XFX is on the market for a $229.00 price point, or nearly the same price as some of the HD 4850 cards and is still lower than the HD 4870 or GeForce GTX260 chipset models. There's a lot of overlap i...  ATI Radeon HD 4670 Video Card Review
ATI has hit a homerun in many respects with the HD 4xxx family of video cards u. The HD 4670 has similar performance to its older brother, the HD 3850 and better pricing. NVIDIA and ATI are both competing for the video card dollar...  XFX 9800GTX+ SLI Video Card Review
The 9800GTX+ from XFX is on the market for a $199 price point, or nearly the same price as the HD 4850 card and lower than the HD 4870 or GeForce GTX260 chip. There’s a lot of overlap in the video card market as video cards that w...  Palit Radeon HD 4870 X2 Video Card Review
Palit’s version of the ATI HD 4870 X2 is an excellent card, easily besting the GeForce GTX280 from NVIDIA in every test. In an apple to apples comparison, the 4870 X2 is nearly 10-20% faster across the board. Of course NVIDIA woul...  Gigabyte 9600GT TurboForce Video Card Review
There’s two perspectives in the video card market today that of price/performance and pure performance no matter what the cost. The Gigabyte GeForce 9600GT TurboForce 1GB card shines in a couple of areas where the AA and AF is tur...  XFX GeForce GTX260 XXX Edition Video Card Review
The GTX260 from XFX is an interesting beast in that it is highly overclocked from the standard reference GTX260 that many companies are selling. In some cases the card comes close in performance to the GTX280 in CPU limited situat...  Palit GeForce GTX280 Review
Being such a large company like Palit is they are not limited by virtue of the numbers game to any one chipset slinger and offer VGA solutions from both the big guys ATI and NVIDIA. This gives Palit a broader spectrum of sales and...  HIS Radeon HD3650 Review
The release of the HD4xxx series cards in the upcoming weeks means that ATI will have released their next generation card series. The 4850 is being released at a price point of $199, but nothing has been said about the mainstream ...  EVGA GTX280 FTW 1GB Edition Review
NVIDIA is on the warpath once again and like a rampant machine they keep making progress in the area of GPU technology pushing the envelope just a bit farther than previously attained. Fast video cards that push pixels and framera...  XFX GeForce GTX280 1GB GDDR3 Review
A 9800GX2 on a single chip is one easy way to look at the GTX280. 240 SPs, a 512-bit memory interface, support for PhysX and GPGPU means that the GTX280 is right up there performance wise with two 9800GTs (9800GX2). Pricing of the...  XFX GeForce 9800GTX Black Edition Review
XFX has become a household name in the PC industry and they have taken major strides to become a worldwide player in the VGA and motherboard game. They have market shares just about everywhere and have begun to really expand their...  EVGA e-GeForce 8800GT AKIMBO 1GB Video Card Review
EVGA is one of the top sellers of video cards in the United States for retail cards at stores like Best Buy and Fry’s. Along with XFX EVGA builds video cards based upon NVIDIA video chips and has excellent service and support for...  XFX 8800GS Alpha Dog Edition 384MB Review
XFX is one of the big dogs in the United States when it comes to NVIDIA based video card sales in the retail channel, along with EVGA and BFG Technologies. XFX has been a major ally of NVIDIA in good and bad times. They have bran...  Palit GeForce 9800GTX Review
Palit is a European and Asian based video card manufacturer that builds NVIDIA video cards, ATI video cards, motherboards and other computer equipment. They have built a name for themselves in Europe but have also begun selling vi...  EVGA e-GeForce 9800GTX 512MB Video Card Review
The 9800GTX is a fast card. Of that there is no doubt. Compared to a 9600GT single card or a HD3870 single card the 9800GTX has performance that is near double those cards. The problem becomes when looking at the price of a 9800GT...  GIGABYTE GV-RX387512H HD3870 512MB Crossfire Review
ATI has retaken the high-end of the graphics card market by storm with the release of the HD3870X2 cards for $450. But the vast majority of video card sales are driven by cards in the under $200 range, as that is affordable to mos...  XFX 8400GS 256MB Video Card Review
The XFX 8400GS isn’t going to be what you’re looking for as a hardcore gamer, but don’t think that means this is a bad card. The card itself performs very well in Windows Vista, perfect for watching movies or just general everyday...  EVGA e-GeForce 9600GT SSC Edition Review
It is interesting that the mid-range counterpart of the G92 (8800GT) performs so well as compared to the 8600GTS performance versus the 8800GTX. The 9600GT from EVGA is an excellent example of the new chip as it is the fastest ava...  XFX 8800GTS 512 MB Alpha Dog
Wow another week went by and NVIDIA has already made its own card to compete with 8800GT, and it comes in the form of the new 8800GTS 512MB Edition. This comes in the wake of more than a few new releases that we have seen in the l...  EVGA 8800GT 256MB World Exclusive Review
eVGA is another company first out of the gates with the latest weapon in the NVIDIA families VGA arsenal, introducing the all new eVGA 8800GT 256MB Edition card. This card is priced at the same level as the ATI 3870 and is rumored...  XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog XXX Edition
XFX (pronounced X Effects) is one of the three major independent players in NVIDIA’s USA team of manufacture partners and they have the products to show it. These folks have been putting out quality products for years and before ...  ASUS 8600GTS Video Card Review
There are fifty dollar video cards, and there are eight hundred dollars video cards. The ASUS EN8600GTS is only around $250 depending on where you do your shopping, but in my opinion this card is worth every penny. After using a ...  Diamond XtremeTV USB 2.0 TV Tuner
Those of you who have used computers for a while will know of a company named Diamond Multimedia. This company has recently come back with a vengeance, trying to climb back to their spot high in the hardware rankings. After seeing...  XFX 7600GT Fatality Review
The Fatal1ty card differs from other 7600GTs on the market by having a very high clock speed for both the core clock and the memory clock. The core clock speed is clocked at an impressive 650MHz, which is over 90MHz faster than th...  ASUS EAX1650XT
The EAX1650XT is not meant for the high-end of the market, and should be compared performance and feature-wise to similarly price cards. The features of the X1650XT are excellent, with full support for Pixel and Vertex Shader 3.0 ...  ASUS EAX1950 Pro
The EAX1950Pro comes with two DVI-I connectors on the bracket IO. They are Dual-link DVI-I ports which allows the X1950Pro to drive two of those Dell 3007 30” monitors if you wish, supporting resolutions of 2560x1600 on each monit...  EVGA 8800GTS
The first thing that struck me about both the 8800GTS and the 8800GTX cards was the cooling system and length of the card. The card is a little shorter than the ASUS 8800GTX and that’s a good thing. Fitting the card in the case we...  ASUS EN7950GT/HTDP/512M/A
The next generation of NVIDIA video cards is going to be launched in November at GeForceLAN 3, the third annual LAN party launch event (with the first being for the 6800, the second for the 7800 series and the third well, I suppos...  EVGA e-Geforce 7900GS KO Edition
The lineage of the 7900GS is pretty clear. EVGA uses the same PCB for their 7900GTX, the 7900GT and the 7900GS. The 7950 GX2 is a dual chip card requiring a different layout and the 7900GTX has a two-slot coolign system. The 7900...  EVGA e-GeForce 7300GT
The low-end was held by the 6200 series. On May of 2006, NVIDIA announced the 7300GT video cards replacing the 6200 series. Today I’m reviewing the e-GeForce 7300GT 512MB from EVGA, which is an entry level 3D solution....  ASUS EN7900GT
The ASUS EN7900GT is one of the best of its breed, the 7900GT. There are faster clocked 7900GTs from XFX and EVGA, but there have been reports of problems with some of those overclocked versions. I had 0 issues with stability and ...  EVGA e-GeForce 7950GX2
The 7950 GX2 is a native PCI Express x16 card. Early NVIDIA PCI Express cards like the 5750 PCI Express cards required a HSI (High Speed Interconnect) bridge chip to operate on the PCI Express bus. Later NVIDIA cards including all...  7800GS KO SUPERCLOCKED w/ACS3 Review
The good points of the EVGA 7800GS KO ACS3 Edition Superclocked video card include SM3.0 support, the fastest performance for an AGP card and support for HDR.. There are still a lot of systems out there with an AGP slot, and the 7...  Gigabyte NX79T GeForce 7900GT
When comparing the 7600GT and the 7900GT PCB it’s clear that the main difference is the memory configuration. The 7600GT has a 128-bit memory bus, and the memory chips are 4 64MB chips. The 7900GT has 8 32MB memory chips with 256-...  EVGA e-GeForce 7600GS 256MB
The first thing I thought upon gazing upon the EVGA 7600GS for the first time was gee where’s the cooling fan? NVIDIA decided the 7600GS could be cooled effectively by a passive heat sink. EVGA followed the NVIDIA reference design...  NVIDIA GeForce 7 Phase II Roundup
NVIDIA has once again come back from behind and pulled a rabbit out of their proverbial hat. Although these new series of cards does not really offer any technical advancement their core and memory clock speeds are through the roo...  ASUS EAX 1300 Pro
The ASUS EAX1300PRO is a small card by modern standards. The card is about an inch longer than the PCI Express X16 slot found on motherboards today. The cooling fan on the card consists of 7 fins, covering the graphics chip. ASUS ...  Evga 6800GS C/O Superclocked Edition
EVGA is one of my favorite video card Add-In Board manufacturers. They are the only company to offer a real trade-in program (Step-Up) on older cards. They also have a Lifetime Warranty on all of their retail video cards and mothe...  ATI X1900 All-In-Wonder
The price of the card is currently in the $499.00 range (US) and that is inline with the rest of the high-end bad daddies out there. The thing is though; none of those other cards has (Like the Name AIW Implies) all these features...  Gigabyte GV-3D1 6800GT
If one thing is clear about video cards today, it’s that there’s always something better coming right around the corner. I find it a little disconcerting that the fastest video card of last year, the NVIDIA GeForcee 7800GTX 512MB ...  Gigabyte 6600GT Silent Pipe
I've reviewed many a video card over the last 5 years and I've generally tried to balance my enthusiasm for a product with both the positives and negatives, to give an overall view of the positioning and performance of a given pro...  EVGA 7800GT SLI
The second unique thing about EVGA video cards is their Step-Up program. It’s the only program of its kind in the video card market today. Buy any retail EVGA card from EVGA or from an approved reseller, retailer, e-teller or dis...  XFX 7800GT SLI
XFX chose to make the design of their 7800GTX similar in appearance to the NVIDIA reference design. There is a 12-fin fan on the front area of the heatsink/cooling fan assembly covering the GPU and memory modules. One big differen...  XFX 6800GT
The standalone video card market over the last few years has been dominated by two companies, NVIDIA and ATI. Controlling over 96% of the standalone graphics market, the two companies have effectively formed a duopoly, with minor ...  e-Geforce 6600GT
It’s a bit of a cliché to say that eVGA is well-known for excellent products, excellent service and support of the products and an unbeatable promotion. In most respects their 6600GT card is typical of the breed, performing in syn...  AOPen Aeolus 6600GT-DV128
It should be interesting to note the performance on the 6600GT card from AOpen. The card is targeted at the $200 price point and should not be compared to the X850XT PE or the GEFORCE 6 6800 Ultra at the high end. Nevertheless, AT...  Gigabyte X800XL
The cooling fan on most video cards tends to make the most noise on a computer system, that along with the CPU cooler. Gigabyte wanted to make their X800XL a fan-less video card. The heat sink covering the VPU (Visual Processing U...  XFX GEFORCE 6200TC Supporting 256 MB
Memory on video cards has come a long way from the first video card I ever used, a Trident 1MB ISA card. That was over 20 years ago. Today, video cards can have up to 512MB on the very high end (GEFORCE 6800 Ultra 512MB). One of ...  6800GT SLI
NVIDIA really came into its own with the nForce2 series of motherboard chipsets. This chipset became the most popular Athlon chipset on the market, beating the likes of VIA and SIS. NVIDIA subsequently released the nForce2 Ultra a...  ATI TV Wonder Elite
The TV Wonder Elite is a relatively small PCI card and it fit easily into my test rig, which is around 2 inches shorter than a 6800GT in the same rig. The board contains ATI’s new Theater 550 chip that I’ll cover more in the featu...  Aopen Aeolus FX5900XT-DV128
The AOpen 5900XT is typical of the breed of 5900XT cards released in the last year or so with a few modifications to the NVIDIA reference design. The first thing that jumps out at you about the card is the heatsink/fan combination...  ATI X800 Pro
The X800 Pro is based upon ATI’s R420 chip. The R420 is the replacement for ATI’s R300 architecture which was introduced in July 2002 with the RADEON 9700 Pro. The X800 Pro has 12 pixel pipelines which when combined with a core cl...  ATI HDTV Wonder
Television is a commodity that has been part of our lives since most of us were born. The advent of the Personal Computer and the Internet has added extra things to occupy our time but events like the Super Bowl and the Olympics s...  Albatron 5700 P Turbo
The replacement for the 5600, the 5700 Ultra was announced in October of 2003. This card featured many of the features not found on the 5600 Ultra, such as 3 vertex shader pipelines instead of the one on the 5600 Ultra, and more f...  Gigabyte Radeon 9800XT 256mb
Gigabyte has traditionally been a great manufacturer of ATI and NVIDIA cards. Before ATI sold cards to other AIB manufacturers, Gigabyte made solely NVIDIA cards. Once ATI sold chips to the AIB partners Gigabyte was one of the fir...  AIW 9600XT
ATI has really hit on all cylinders with video cards for nearly the last 2 years since the launch of the RADEON 9700 Pro. In many respects the purchase by ATI of ArtX and the hiring of Dave Orton has turned the company around from...  PNY GeForce FX 5700 Ultra Verto
The line-up of NVIDIA cards at release was the GEFORCE FX 5800 Ultra and the GeForce FX 5600 Ultra. The cards unfortunately weren’t able to compete competitively with the competition, the RADEON 9800 Pro and the RADEON 9600 Pro. T...  MSI FX 5700 Ultra
MSI has always been about quality video cards, mostly with chips made by Nvidia (they've built some OEM ATI cards for Medion) Amazingly, over the years I've only had the pleasure of using two MSI cards, a Ti4200 8x from last year ...  BFG Technologies 5700 Ultra vs Asus 9600XT
Asus has traditionally been an exclusive supplier of NVIDIA based video cards since the TNT days. In the past, they’ve made cards based upon 3dfx, ATI and other manufacturers. But today, Asus has switched to using both ATI and NVI...  Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Deluxe
So what do I look for in a television tuner? It's important to look at the targeted market. Because I don't have cable TV, I look for good reception with an antenna, PVR, stereo sound, Picture in a Picture, a reasonable price, an...  GigaXcube 9600 Pro Game Buster
Ever since there beginning they have been producing there own cards. Well today my opinion has some what been changed. Don’t get me wrong I still like and respect the power that “built by ATI” cards stand for. But as I sit here an...  AIW RADEON 9000 Pro
As to performance, quite frankly, if you're buying a video card today for performance, I would suggest a AGP card. The difference between a AIW 9700 Pro and the 7500 PCI card, in terms of performance are clear. It was not my inten...  ATI All In Wonder VE
ATI has traditionally released All in Wonder cards with every new release of their main video card chipsets. Sometimes, they release the card a little bit underpowered compared to the top of the line, sometimes it's equal....  Maya ll Radeon 9500
Well another year has passed, 2002 closed with ATI holding on to its performance crown, NVIDIA able to do nothing more than look on with an angry face as ATI proves that there is intelligent life in Canada....  Radeon 9000 pro
ATI has taken the reigns away from NVIDIA, the R300 has already proven it has all the power it needs to crush the Geforce 4’s and perhaps even stave off the up and coming NV30.... |
