(04/03) ATI Radeon 9200 vs Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 review by ULTIMATE HARDWARE - "ATI Radeon 9200 is compared to the Nvidia GeForce FX5200, both are budget video cards. The ATI Radeon 9200 is DX8 and the Nvidia GeForce FX5200 uses the more advanced DX9. Software used:- 3dmark 2001, 3dmark 2003, Quake 3 Arena, Serious Sam and Unreal Tournament 2003."
(04/03) Budget Video Roundup 2003 review by ULTIMATE HARDWARE - "Budget Video Card Roundup 2003 comparing four budget video cards which are the Gainward GeForce4 MX440, Visiontek GeForce3, Sapphire Radeon 9000 and Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro. Athlon XP1700 processor and Asus A7S333 motherboard also used. Software used for benchmarking was 3dmark 2001 SE, Quake 3 Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Serious Sam SE and UT2003."
(04/03) nVidia GeForceFX 5200 review by Tech-Report - "NVIDIA's big push with its GeForce FX line is top-to-bottom support for DirectX 9 features, including pixel and vertex shaders 2.0, floating point data types, and gobs of internal precision. As the graphics chip behind NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5200 and 5200 Ultra, NV34 has full support for the same DirectX 9 features as even the high-end NV30. What's particularly impressive about NV34 is that NVIDIA has squeezed support for all those DirectX 9 features into a die containing only 45 million transistors—nearly one third as many as NV30."
(04/03) Biostar M7NCG nForce2 review by Bjorn3D - "The Biostar M7NCG is a well-built Micro-ATX motherboard, based on the NVIDIA nForce2 chipset. It's a complete solution with the all the peripherals needed for a basic computer system integrated into the motherboard. The video is powered by the built-in GeForce 4 MX graphics, and the board has a fast DualDDR 400 memory controller, which delivers up to 6.4 GB/s of bandwidth. The M7NCG provides Dolby® digital 5.1-channel sound for real-time cinematic 3D (positional) audio. All of this is topped off with an AGP 8x slot, USB 2.0, IEEE 1394a (FireWire), and LAN."
(04/03) EPoX 8RDA3+ nForce2 review by TBreak - "Hitting 200MHz FSB on the first generation on nForce2 boards was pretty much a hit and miss affair. However, now that AMD will officially be supporting a 200MHz FSB for the Athlon and with a little more refinement on the nForce2 chipset, all boards should reach 200MHz FSB out of the box. Today, we take a look at Epox’s offering based on this fine-tuned nForce2 chipset- the 8RDA3+"
(04/03) Albatron KM18G nForce2 review by Tech-Report - "Today, we're looking at Albatron's KM18G Pro, a Micro ATX motherboard based on NVIDIA's nForce2 chipset. The KM18G Pro comes decked out with integrated audio, Ethernet, and even video via the nForce2 IGP. Does it have enough power and expandability to bridge the gap between full-tower ATX systems and tiny SFF PCs for performance and feature-hungry enthusiasts? Read on to find out."
(04/03) MSI Ti4800SE-VTD8X GeForce4 Ti4400-8X review by Bjorn3D - "MSI (Micro Star International), obviously remembers the good ol' days (and recognizes the need to differentiate its products). Their NVIDIA Ti4800SE offering, the Ti4800SE-VTD8X, is chock full of goodies. But before we get to that, let's review the GeForce4 nomenclature. At the bottom of the ladder (ignoring the oddly named MX series) is the Ti4200. Next comes the Ti4400 and it's followed by the king, the Ti4600. Thus the Ti4800 must be the usurper, ready to depose the 4600 - right? Er, not exactly. The Ti4800 is actually a Ti4400 with AGP 8X support. It sort of makes sense; the standard Ti4400 has AGP 4X support so if you double it you get a 4800. Therefore an 8X Ti4200 would be a Ti4400, and an 8X Ti4600 would be a Ti41200! Oh screw it, just forget the name and we'll move on to the features."
(04/03) Asus v9560 GeForceFX 5600 review by TBreak - "We recently took a look at three retail cards based on the nVidia FX5800 Ultra GPU and none of them managed to really impress us. Sure, the performance was pretty good- as fast or faster than the Radeon 9700 PRO, but the amount of noise and heat generated by the card along with the heavy price associated with it didnt really make it worth it. Today, we take a look at the ASUS v9560 graphics card which is based on the next member in the FX line- the FX5600 GPU. nVidia has certainly solved the heat and noise issue along with bringing the size of the card back to normal levels as well but lets find out how well it performs."
(04/03) Hercules 3D Prophet Radeon 9800 Pro review by Guru3D - "When I first looked at the product we will be reviewing today my reaction was precisely 'Oh My God' I have never seen a graphics card looking so beautiful. Once again it's Hercules who did an amazing thing with it's new Radeon 9800 Pro. Lovely blue PCB, copper ramsinks, GPU front and backside cooled with copper plated cooling and even some capacitors have little copper ramsinks. That's not it though, this card was made for the high-end user. The high-end user nowadays most likely has a casemod. Probably a case door window on the left side ... end well .. this is the pure beauty I guess .. the copper cooling fan that's cooling down the graphics core has a blue LED light which lights up the ambient surroundings of the graphics card."
(04/03) VisionTek Xtasy Radeon 9800 Pro review by HARD OCP - "Still spouting their very catchy and visually inspiring brand name, the VisionTek Xtasy 9800 Pro carries with it the best features and performance that is currently out there in a video card. If you wish to get the low down on what the 9800 Pro VPU is bringing to the table I encourage you to first read our ATI Radeon 9800 Pro review."
(04/03) Albatron 4800SE GeForce4 Ti4400-8X review by HardwareZone - "Albatron had very recently sent us their GeForce4 Ti 4800SE graphics card for evaluation and this will be our first experience working with Albatron?s products."
(04/03) nVidia GeForceFX 5200/5600 review by XBitLabs - "We reviewed NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra and GeForce FX 5200 Ultra reference graphics cards from NVIDIA and the first mass GeForce FX 5200 based graphics card from Albatron. New optimizations in Detonator drivers, new chips performance and image quality analysis, performance against the predecessors (GeForce4 Ti4200-8x and GeForce4 MX440-8x) and immediate rivals (ATI RADEON 9500 pro and RADEON 9000 Pro). And even more!"
(04/03) AOpen AK79G Max nForce2 review by HardwareZone - "Having just reviewed the AOpen AX4R Plus for the Socket-478 platform, let's look at one for the Socket-A platform using the nForce2-GT chipset. The nForce2-GT is a full-featured nForce2 chipset with a built-in graphics core based on the GeForce4 MX class. Fortunately, such platforms still support an AGP 8x port for near unlimited graphics capability expansion."
(04/03) Gainward GeForce4 Ti4400-8X review by nVNews - "As all card manufacturers, Gainward too has their own naming scheme. The 650-8x basically means that it’s based on NVIDIA’s Ti4200 GPU (NV25) and the 8x stands for AGP8x support (which currently makes no difference, but more about this later on)."
(04/03) ATi Radeon 9600 Pro review by Bjorn3D - "1 ½ month ago I had the opportunity to take a look at ATI’s new flagship the Radeon 9800 (link to review). Today it is time to take a look at ATI’s second new card – the Radeon 9600 Pro. The one thing that makes this card a bit special is of course that it is built with .13u compared to the Radeon 9700 and Radeon 9800 that uses a 0.15u process."
(04/03) Pentium 4 Canterwood 3GHz / i875 Chipset review by XBitLabs - "We reviewed all the newest products from Intel: Pentium 4 3.0GHz processor with 800MHz Quad Pumped Bus, Intel 875 and Intel 865 chipsets aka Canterwood and Springdale respectively. These products proved close to perfection. Learn more about the world’s fastest processors and chipsets now!"
(04/03) Pentium 4 Canterwood 3GHz / i875 Chipset review by HardwareZone - "Today, Intel announced the availability of the much anticipated Canterwood (or known as the Intel 875P chipset) platform which promises far better performance than any other currently available solutions. Boosting the front side bus speeds from 533MHz to a whopping 800MHz is just one of the things Intel did on the Canterwood. As we will discuss further later on, the Canterwood comes with a few firsts, and it's certainly looking to be one of the best chipsets ever made for the desktop segment."
