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ATi's Post R520 Party @ Ibiza

Published 2005-10-04 15:45 by Newsfactory 0

Some of the world's best overclockers have been invited to treat the X1800XTs to some LN2. Which seem to indicate that the clock speeds achieved were 856Mhz Core, 1880Mhz Memory. We will not be surprised to see the memory go pass 1900Mhz, these 1.2ns Memory seem to be clocking really well on these cards.

VR-Zone

Choosing mobile HDD for external USB storage

Published 2005-10-04 15:39 by Newsfactory 0

We took 4 mobile Hitachi hard drives with different parameters, one 1,8" and three 2,5-inch drives. The 1,8" drive is Prestigio Pocket Drive and it is being sold with its own USB enclosure, as for the other 2,5" drives we used Vantec NexStar external HDD enclosure. And the best one for use as an external storage is...

Leadtek 7800 GT and ForceWare 78.03

Published 2005-10-03 15:50 by Newsfactory 0

Leadtek have a new 7800 GT board which is dubbed 'Extreme'. It sports clocks speeds faster than the standard and a pretty good bundle. We take a look at the card, and see how it performs with the new 78.03 drivers that NVIDIA tell us will fix the texture shimmering issues we've seen previously.

Bit-Tech

ATI R5XX Sell Sheets

Published 2005-10-03 15:47 by Newsfactory 0

techPowerUp have thrown up the sell sheets for ATI's R5XX series of grapohics cards . The sheets contain benchmarks and More.

Panels a la carte: Mura, components, Dead Pixels

Published 2005-10-03 15:36 by Newsfactory 0

After LCD monitors? dead pixels policies, there is now something even better. How can two monitors equipped with the same panel be so different in price (up to twice as much)? Do you still believe in Santa?

ATI Avivo Video Technology: An Overview

Published 2005-10-03 15:33 by Newsfactory 0

Advanced Imaging and Video ? this is how ATI defines its new brand, Avivo. ATI claims Avivo to be the new benchmark in PC visual experience. Whether or not it lives up to ATI?s claims and expectations will be seen in a short while, but for now, lets take a peek under the hood and see what makes it tick.

X1800, X1600 & X1300 Performance In 3DMark

Published 2005-10-02 18:34 by Newsfactory 0

VR-Zone have posted 3DMark05 and 3DMark03 benchies for ATi's upcoming X1800 XT, X1800 XL, X1600 XT, X1600 PRO and X1300 LE graphics Cards.

ATI?s Radeon X1000 series, what to expect?

Published 2005-10-02 17:57 by Newsfactory 0

The Radeon X1000 series will be introduced next week, featuring the X1800, X1600 and X1300 graphic cards. We take a first look at the new architecture and these new graphic cards, including pictures, pricing and availability.

Hardware Analysis

Asylum Dementia 2.0 :: 3DMark '03 Contest

Published 2005-10-02 17:26 by Newsfactory 0

Hardware Asylum has unveiled its newest 3DMark '03 competition. They have lots of great prizes to be won, including memory, motherboard, cooling, and accessories.

R520 Architecture Uncovered

Published 2005-10-01 14:02 by Newsfactory 0

It seems that somebody out in Ibiza must have a loose tongue - The Inquirer have gotten hold of a probable 3DMark05 score for the Radeon X1800XT, as well as a schematic of the core's architecture. Check out the links below for all the details:

Elite Bastards

Fake Maxtor Hard Disk Drives Hit the Market

Published 2005-10-01 12:53 by Newsfactory 0

Forged Maxtor Corp.?s MaXLine II hard disk drives (HDDs) have emerged on the Japanese market, according to local press. Alleged swindlers supply 320GB flavours of the HDDs, whereas Maxtor officially produces only 250GB and 300GB versions of the products for retail channel.

X-Bit Labs

CrossFire launch leaves only vapors

Published 2005-10-01 12:49 by Newsfactory 0

Many folks who have read my review of ATI CrossFire in the past week have been wondering where they could buy the motherboards and CrossFire Edition graphics cards in order to build a CrossFire system for themselves. They've wondered that, in part, because of this passage from the conclusion of my CrossFire review, shortly after I recommend not buying a CrossFire setup right away:

TechReport

Multimedie flexible keyboard

Published 2005-10-01 12:41 by Newsfactory 0

A flexible keyboard! Sometimes it can be handy, for example out doors, beacause it doesn't take much place in your handluggage, it's portable with the proper size to fold or roll.

Gadget Flash

Intel Pentium M 760 @ T-Break

Published 2005-09-30 13:48 by Newsfactory 0

We take a look at Intel's 533MHz based Pentium M CPU in a desktop environment with the 7800GTX and DDR2. You'd be amazed at the damage this CPU is capable of.

ATI's CrossFire, too little too late?

Published 2005-09-30 13:32 by Newsfactory 0

ATI's long awaited multi-GPU CrossFire platform has finally seen its official introduction this week, we ask ourselves whether it could be too little too late?

Hardware Analysis

The New Sony AIBO Robotic Pup Converses

Published 2005-09-30 13:18 by Newsfactory 0

The Sony AIBO ERS-7M3 robotic pup is a step-up from its predecessor, the AIBO ERS-7M2. What's the difference? Voice integration. The AIBO ERS-7M3 will have a 1,000 word vocabulary that will allow your robotic pup to carry on a simple conversation with you. It's also Sony's first Spanish-speaking robot that responds to 35 Spanish-language commands.

PCMag.com

Apple to replace nuked nanos

Published 2005-09-29 17:43 by Newsfactory 0

Following a volley of bad press, Apple have done "the right thing" and admitted that there is a genuine problem with the screen on their recently launched iPod nano. Apple will replace broken units free of charge.

Bit-Tech

AMD: Show Me The Money

Published 2005-09-29 17:35 by Newsfactory 0

Barron's had an article the other day touting AMD and saying it might reach $50 a share in two years.

How likely is this?

Gigabyte 8N-SLI QUAD Royal ? An exercise in possibilities

Published 2005-09-29 17:18 by Newsfactory 0

For a little while now we?ve known about Gigabyte?s upcoming 8N-SLI QUAD motherboard and quite frankly, we?re a little excited about it. We?ve been on the backs of our friends from the Gigabyte marketing department to send us a sample to play with but it hasn?t been forthcoming as yet. We did however come in contact with some details about the new motherboard and we thought we?d share what we found with you.

TweakTown

ATI R520 AGP Cancelled

Published 2005-09-29 17:11 by Newsfactory 1

We saw some earlier roadmaps that were implying that ATI plans to do R520, Radeon X1800 in AGP variation but it turns out that the company dropped its original plan.

The Inquirer