Introduction What’s so great about the TOP line of cards from ASUS is that they’re actually overclocked to a level where a decent performance can be seen. So many companies these days offer an overclock, but a few MHz on the core and a couple MHz on the memory doesn’t really equate to that much [...]

Introduction When a new graphics card comes out, I tend to do the TweakTown review and then have a look around and see what some other reviewers thought of the card. However, I’ve been so busy lately with the new release of the HD 4800 series from AMD and the GTX 280 from NVIDIA that [...]

Features & Specifications The PNY GTX 260 is a stock clocked video card with a core clock of 576 MHz, a shader clock of 1242MHz, and a memory clock of 2000MHz. The card has 192 shader cores and 896MB of DDR3 and a 448-bil memory interface. The PNY GTX 260 has dual DVI outputs and [...]

One-Point-Four-Billion. That’s transistors folks. The chip is codenamed GT200 and it’s the successor to NVIDIA’s G80 and G92 families. Why the change in naming? The GT stands for “Graphics Tesla” and this is the second generation Graphics Tesla architecture, the first being the G80. The GT200 is launching today in two flavors, the die of [...]

A very smart man at Intel once told me that when designing a microprocessor you can either build a new architecture, or move to a smaller manufacturing process, but you don’t do both at the same time. The reason you don’t do both is because it significantly complicates the design, validation and manufacturing processes – [...]

There have been no fewer than fourteen video card launches this year. Seventeen if you count launches globally, and almost thirty if you include integrated video. Despite fast sales, the harried, bulky mass of the upgrade market has thrown its hands in the air, waiting for the launches to settle, to see the card or [...]

The ATI 4000 series video cards have taken the VGA world by storm. The surprising performance of the Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4870, both based on the AMD/ATI R770 GPU, has driven down prices of all other video cards due to the low release prices of both. The HD 4850, at under $200, performs [...]

Now that the HD 4850 has been hanging around for a bit, we’re beginning to see more and more companies jump on the aftermarket bandwagon. The latest company to do this is Palit, bringing the highly popular HD 4850 to the also highly popular Sonic line. The HD 4850 has had so much going for [...]

The HD 4850 is the card that has put AMD/ATI back on the graphics card map over the past month. While the HD 3850 and HD 3870 were both good cards, a constant line-up of NVIDIA cards along with price drops meant that the aging technology was having trouble keeping up with cards not only [...]

AMD has been through some rough times the last year. Not only have they lagged behind with their processors compared to Intel but they also have not been able to compete at the enthusiast level with their ATI graphics cards. It was therefore quite interesting to attend to their briefing in Malaga, Spain a few [...]

When you think of Crossfire what is the first thing you think of? Performance? Price? Driver issues? Well, if we were back in 2005 when Crossfire was first introduced as a competitor to NVIDIA’s SLI, you would have probably said “frustration”. Back then, Crossfire was a mishmash of ultra-expensive “Crossfire Edition” cards, wonky external cable [...]

Several days ago we wrote about GeForce GTX 200 – fresh High-End solutions from NVIDIA. And now it’s time for new products from AMD. But we’ll start with a graphics card, which is not intended to compete with GTX 200. AMD plans to roll out dual-GPU cards based on the high-frequency RV770 to compete with [...]

The guys down at IBuyPower Australia can’t get rid of me these days. I’m surprised they haven’t started asking me to pay rent. The other day the ASUS P5E64 WS Evolution board arrived, and this thing just absolutely won me over as far as looks and features went. However, the feature that we really care [...]

With high-quality products, solid support, and lifetime warranties BFGTech has carved a place for themselves out of the ferocious North American video card market. Their “by gamers, for gamers” philosophy and close relationship with NVIDIA has established BFG Technologies as a premium video card brand in the USA. Their own website states: Many of our [...]

The BFG 8800 GT OCX has a core clock speed of 700 MHz, a memory clock of 2000MHz and a shader clock of 1728 MHz. The card has 112 stream processors and uses 512MB of GDDR3 memory with a 256-bit memory interface. The exclusive ThermoIntelligence cooling solution promises to keep the GPU 30C cooler than [...]

Our test lab examined three graphics cards from BFG, Forsa, and ZOTAC. Running a few steps forward, we can tell you that they are all practically identical (reference cards). They differ only in operating frequencies. And the ZOTAC product has a different cooler. With return of the 256bit bus, we can see the old design [...]

ASUS GeForce 8800 GT TOP 512MB PCI-E, Gainward Bliss GeForce 8800 GT Golden Sample 1024MB PCI-E, Galaxy GeForce 8800 GT 512MB PCI-E, Gigabyte GeForce 8800 GT Zalman Edition 512MB PCI-E, Leadtek GeForce 8800 GT ZL 512MB PCI-E, MSI GeForce 8800 GTS OC 512MB PCI-E, Palit GeForce 8800 GT Sonic 512MB PCI-E Time goes on, and [...]