Just got word from our bro's over at DriverHeaven that they have two new reviews out! the first review is for AMD's Opteron 146 processor and the second review features Nvidia's 5950 Ultra and ATi's 9800 XT.
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AMD Opteron 146
My main processor for the last few months has been the excellent AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton). Coupled with the NF7-S I have in my main PC it was able to obtain 3200+ speeds without breaking a sweat. Here for review today I have one of AMD's new 64-bit based processors, the Opteron 146. Rather than see how it performs as a Workstation or Server chip (there are already hundreds of reviews available that cover those tests) lets see how it stacks up against the Barton at 3200+ as a desktop chip...
Nvidia 5950 Ultra vs. ATi 9800 XT
On the display quality front there were no noticeable differences between the two cards in 3D. I would be happy to own either for gaming purposes (based on image quality) and I'm quite sure that if you sat most people down in front of a system with each card in it they would be hard pushed to notice any image quality differences. 2D however is slightly nicer on the Radeon, its more crisp and vibrant than the FX. Whilst in normal desktop use this is not a big issue if your going to be working on graphics or watching films the Radeon would be the best card to use.
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AMD Opteron 146
My main processor for the last few months has been the excellent AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton). Coupled with the NF7-S I have in my main PC it was able to obtain 3200+ speeds without breaking a sweat. Here for review today I have one of AMD's new 64-bit based processors, the Opteron 146. Rather than see how it performs as a Workstation or Server chip (there are already hundreds of reviews available that cover those tests) lets see how it stacks up against the Barton at 3200+ as a desktop chip...
Nvidia 5950 Ultra vs. ATi 9800 XT
On the display quality front there were no noticeable differences between the two cards in 3D. I would be happy to own either for gaming purposes (based on image quality) and I'm quite sure that if you sat most people down in front of a system with each card in it they would be hard pushed to notice any image quality differences. 2D however is slightly nicer on the Radeon, its more crisp and vibrant than the FX. Whilst in normal desktop use this is not a big issue if your going to be working on graphics or watching films the Radeon would be the best card to use.
