Luminocity, Cairo, and the Future of X Windows
Seth Nickell has posted an informative report, with video clips, on new technologies making their way into X Windows. Luminosity integrates many OpenGL effects into X Windows, while Cairo increases the...
View ArticleReview of the ATI Radeon X800 XL
FiringSquad and X-Bit Labs have posted lengthy reviews of the ATI Radeon X800 XL. X-Bit Labs has a 22 page review of the ATI's card with a focus on performance in various games. FiringSquad takes a...
View ArticleReview of the 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 800
AnandTech has reviewed the Wildcat Realizm 800 from 3Dlabs. This dual-GPU graphics card is aimed at the 3D graphics professional and is priced at, you might want to sit down for this, $2000. See how it...
View ArticleThe nForce 4 SLI Motherboard Showdown
HotHardware.com wanted to see which nForce 4 SLI motherboard is the king of the hill, so it put the DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR, the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI, and the Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI to the test....
View ArticleReview of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Tom's Hardware has published a review of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, along with a number of screenshots from the game. As the first major title to incorporate Shader Model 3.0 into its graphics...
View ArticleReview of the NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition
Today NVIDIA announced their nForce 4 SLI chipset for the Intel platform, known as nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition. A number of hardware news sites have already published lengthy reviews. See how the Intel...
View ArticleReview of the ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT
Beyond3D and Tom's Hardware have published reviews of the ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT, a board designed for high powered 3D graphics and for high-end PC multimedia and video capture. The product is based...
View ArticleATI Multi VPU to Battle NVIDIA SLI This Summer
ATI plans to reveal its Multi VPU technology sometime around June. Multi VPU will allow multiple ATI graphics cards to work in parallel, similar to SLI technology from NVIDIA. Motherboards will have to...
View ArticleReview of the ATI X600 All-in-Wonder Pro
The Register has published a review of the ATI X600 All-in-Wonder Pro, a 3D graphics card designed for multimedia and home theater applications. Features include an ATI RV380 GPU running at 400 MHz, an...
View ArticleNVIDIA SLI Technology In Depth
Bit-Tech has published a lengthy five part series of articles looking closely at SLI technology from NVIDIA. The articles look at motherboards, specific SLI graphic cards, game performance, optimum CPU...
View ArticleA First Look at ATI CrossFire Multi-GPU Graphics Technology
A number of tech review sites have published articles detailing ATI's new CrossFire multi-GPU rendering technology. CrossFire supports several methods to load balance graphics rendering among multiple...
View ArticleATI R520 Features Hardware Accelerated H.264 HD Content Decoding
ATI Technologies has announced that their new Radeon R520 graphics processor features hardware accelerated H.264 Advanced Video Codec (AVC) decoding. The H.264 compression format is used on forthcoming...
View ArticleReview of the ATI Mobility Radeon X800 XT Notebook Graphics Chipset
AnandTech has published a review of ATI's new Mobility Radeon X800 XT notebook graphics chipset. One major difference between the Mobility Radeon X800 XT chpset and the previous Mobility Radeon X800 is...
View ArticleReview of Seven RADEON X800 XL Graphics Cards
HardwareZone has published a massive 22 page comparison and review of the seven top RADEON X800 XL graphics cards. The cards reviewed were the Elsa Falcox PX80 XL, the GeCube RADEON X800 XL, the...
View ArticleReviews of the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX
NVIDIA has just released their new NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX graphics card, and a number of tech sites have published reviews of it. The card has a number of new features compared to previous NVIDIA...
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