(03/03) ATi Radeon All-In-Wonder 9000 Pro review by Hexus - "Cards based on the RV250 core were released bearing the Radeon 9000 tag, and quickly made their way into the budget market only weeks after announcement boasting sub £100 Price tags and performance that looks to rival the closest competitors. After proving competent in both the budget and high-end performance division with their current 9000/9700 based products, ATI had yet to announce cards which would accommodate the multimedia division. That is, until the announcements of the All-In-Wonder 9700, All-In-Wonder VE and All-In-Wonder 9000."
(03/03) SiS 746FX Chipset review by HardwareZone - "SiS has always been stronger at making Pentium 4 chipsets and this was obvious with their highly successful 645DX and 648 chipsets. On the AMD Socket-A front, SiS has showed that it's possible to build low-cost chipsets when they first introduced the one chip solution, which is the 735 chipset. However, their subsequent SiS 745 and 746 chipsets were less than successful and only a handful of motherboard vendors adopted the chipsets into their Socket-A motherboard line-up. Now, having unsuccessful chipsets is hardly an excuse for SiS to stop concentrating in their Socket-A solutions. In fact, that didn't stop their development of the newly introduced SiS 746FX chipset. Today, we'll look at their new 746FX Socket-A solution which is built to support the latest AMD Athlon XP processors and AGP 8X graphics."
(03/03) Sapphire Radeon 9500 Pro review by DriverHeaven - " The Sapphire Radeon 9500 Atlantis Pro is of course based on the RADEON 9500 series of chipset's from ATi Technologies Inc. It boasts DirectX 9 support and a vast array of features such as 128MB DDR memory, an eight pipe, 128bit memory interface, SMARTSHADER™ 2.0 technology which allows users to experience complex, movie-quality effects in next-generation 3D games and applications. In addition, ATI's SMOOTHVISION™ 2.0 technology enhances image quality by removing jagged edges and bringing out fine texture detail, without compromising performance."
(03/03) Asrock K7S8X SiS746FX review by OCW - "ASROCK's K7 boards were previously based on earlier VIA chipsets but this has now changed as ASROCK K7S8X is based on a new chipset - SIS 746FX. If you have read our Reference board review of the SiS746FX, it is a good competitor to the nForce2 DC DDR chipset if low cost is the deciding factor in your purchase. In fact, in certain benchmarks conducted on the Ref board and another SiS 746 board, it even overtakes the Epox 8RDA+ based on the DC DDR in desktop applications and disk performance. K7S8X has standard features as it aims to be a stable board with above average performance with a slightly lowly tuned ram timings. As the board does not come with important settings like RAS to CAS (2-2-5), it all depends on the manufacturer to tune it for maximum compatibility."
(03/03) Leadtek K7NCR18G Pro nForce2 review by Bjorn3D - "here have been quite a few nForce2 reviews out by now, including a few on our site. Less common to this point, however, have been ones that cover boards with the new GeForce4 IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor). I've been fortunate enough to get a hold of one of Leadtek's new K7NCR18G-Pro boards to test. You see, when the other guys were clamoring for nForce2's, I held back and decided to wait for the IGP boards. My old board, a Leadtek K7N420DA had an onboard GeForce2 MX, and while I didn't use it as my primary card, I found it came in handy enough times that I wanted to try another IGP motherboard. The IGP boards have obvious utility for folks who like the all-in-one solution of video, sound, NIC, etc in one easy to install package."
(03/03) ATi Radeon 9800 Pro review by HARD OCP - "The Radeon 9800/Pro is based on the codenamed R350. The 9600/Pro is based on the codenamed RV350 VPU and the 9200/Pro is based on the codenamed RV280 VPU. Before we go into the specifics of each model lets take a look at the new technology that is implemented in this new product lineup. Basically you can say ATI took the proven R300 VPU and improved upon the design. In a nutshell, that sums up the R350 and RV350’s technology. There are not startling new technologies behind the core, or at least none they are talking about."
(03/03) ATi Radeon 9800 Pro review by Hexus - "So the much-vaunted NV30, hyped up to unbelievable levels, disappointed those that thought it would crush ATi's offering. The FX Ultra is a good card, but not as good as it should have been. The interim seven months since the widespread launch of the Radeon 9700 Pro (and subsequent models) have given ATi the opportunity to take all the best bits of out of the R300 design and make it even better. Seven months is an age in the graphics card industry. Let's now see just what ATI's engineers have come up with as we unveil the new king of the ATi stable, the Radeon 9800 Pro. We'll look at the card first, then discuss its merits, and finally benchmark it in the company of the FX Ultra and Radeon 9700 Pro cards."
(03/03) nVidia GeForceFX Family preview by Bjorn3D - "Today NVIDIA is announcing the specifications of the entire GeForce FX family line-up at the Game Developers’ Conference (GDC). As a part of this launch, we’ve prepared this preview of the specifications. With this preview, NVIDIA also sent us reference versions of NV31 (GeForce FX 5600 Ultra) and NV34 (GeForce FX 5200 Ultra). We’ll be presenting a full-on performance test of these cards next week. In the mean time, we’ll look at NVIDIA’s roadmap with these new video cards."
(03/03) nVidia GeForceFX 5600 preview by Hexus - "Today NVIDIA have launched 2 new cards based on their "FX" technology. We all saw that around 2 months ago NVIDIA broke in to the market with their new leading card - the NV30. Some people were shocked by the noise which this created, but underneath this there was some attractive technology. This of course is something which we are not all seeing being taken advantage of at the moment."
(03/03) nVidia GeForceFX 5600 Ultra / 5200 Ultra review by Bjorn3D - " As a follow up to our NVIDIA GeForce FX Family Preview, which we posted HERE last week, NVIDIA has sent us a couple of the new FX cards to test. We received an NV31 (GeForce FX 5600 Ultra) and an NV34 (GeForce FX 5200 Ultra), NVIDIA’s Performance and Mainstream market products, respectively. Scott took the higher line 5600 Ultra for testing on his nForce2/XP2700+ computer while I took the 5200 Ultra for testing on Bjorn3D reference computer, a nForce2 and AMD XP2000+. This review is going to concentrate on the performance of these cards in the benchmark arena."
(03/03) nVidia GeForceFX 5200 / 5600 review by ExtremeTech - "In our preview of the GeForceFX 5200 and 5600, we suggested that these cards were more significant than the higher end, higher priced GeForceFX 5800. Delivering DirectX 9 functionality at affordable prices makes DirectX 9 a viable option for PC game developers. These are also Nvidia's volume products for the next few months."
(03/03) MSI G4MX440-T8X GeForce4 MX440-8X review by PCStats - " Today we're going to be looking at yet another GeForce4 MX videocard, but what makes the MSI G4MX440-T8X special is that it is a entirely silent half height card especially suited to small form factor PC's or Book sized PC's."
