Hardware like video cards, especially high-end video cards, often fall under the purview of the Enthusiast. An enthusiast is a computing hobbyist with a kind of hardware pioneer's mindset. Never ...
Today we have for review an Albatron 8600 GT from Albatron. This is a standard (as opposed to overclocked) version of NVIDIA's 8600 GT. The 8600 GT performance is a little under par with the 7900 G...
It has been six months and one week since NVIDIA launched their highly acclaimed 8-series of DirectX 10 video cards. ATI is more than a little late, but then again, why rush? Yes, many people hav...
Since the release of NVIDIA's 8800-series, NVIDIA has proven that they are kings of quantity -and- quality. Gone are the days of speckled texture processing, along with spiking and dropping framer...
What company first comes to mind when you think about NVIDIA video cards? Chances are you're thinking of either BFG, XFX, or EVGA. In today's review we'll be taking a look at an overclocked 7950 GT...
The Christmas shopping season is nearly upon us, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that ATI would choose now to launch a new mainstream video card. ATI's Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB PCI-Express video c...
For weeks now there have been rumors swirling around the great intarweb about ATI's upcoming high-end video card refresh "“ and today is the official launch date. The Radeon X1950 XTX (R580+)...
Back in January, I wrote a preview of ATI's top-of-the-line X1900 XTX. At the time, our main focus was seeing how much of a difference there was between it and the X1800 XT it replaced. It wasn't u...
After over a month of benchmarking 11 video cards in 8 popular games, we've learned exactly how each card fits into the mix. In our testing XFX's 7900 GT XXX Edition performed extremely well. Based...
I can't imagine there are many real enthusiasts out there who haven't yet heard of BFG (which stands for Big F***in' Gun if you didn't already know that)! they're pretty popular amongst gamers and ...
ATI launched their X1800 GTO the same day that NVIDIA launched 7600 GT, attempting to keep the 7600 GT from gaining too much of the mid-range market share. What's interesting about the X1800 GTO is...
For the X1800 GTO preview back on March 9, I only had time to run 4 cards through 3 games. I've been benchmarking around the clock until just last a couple weeks ago and now have 11 cards to compar...
In terms of architecture and features, the X1800 GTO is identical to the X1800 XL with the exception of the pipeline count: rather than 16 pipelines, it has 12. The product placement for the GTO is...
The 4 cards that are being launched today are part of ATI's new X1900 series. From top to bottom, there is the Radeon X1900 XTX, Radeon X1900 Crossfire, Radeon X1900 XT, and All-In-Wonder X1900. It...
Today ATI is announcing the X1000 series and launching three video cards: the X1800 XL, X1300 Pro and X1300. In this preview we will discuss the architecture of these new cards, new features, and o...
We were able to get our hands on an XFX GeForce 7800 GT, and although we are not yet able to do a full review on this card due to time constraints, we have managed to test the card enough to get a ...
As gamers and geeks alike, often times we find ourselves getting wrapped up in the exciting world of high-end video cards and forgetting about the more budget-oriented models. However, unless you'r...
In today's world, technology plays a big role in all of our lives. We depend on it daily to do our work, to talk to our friends and family, and to kick back and whoop some arse in Counter-Strike. W...
ATI has released the Radeon X800 XL with a whopping 512 MB of memory goodness. Improvements are great, but what does this really mean for gamers? Are there tangible benefits to be had by simply dou...
The 6600 GT has 8 pixel pipelines, a core clock speed of 500 MHz and memory clock speeds of 500 MHz (1 GHz DDR). Also worth mentioning is that the memory on this card is DDR3 and it also SLI capable.