(04/04) MSI 5900 XT v MSI GF4 Ti4200 review by Ultimate Hardware - "MSI Geforce FX 5900 XT tested against the MSI Geforce4 Ti4200 as requested by a reader. Software used for benchmarking was, 3dmark 2001 SE, 3dmark 2003, GLexcess, Quake 3 Arena, Serious Sam SE and Unreal Tournament 2003."
(04/04) Mainstream Video Card roundup by XBitLabs - "Today we would like to offer you the second part of our extensive roundup including all existing mainstream solutions from the two leading graphics chip developers of today: ATI and NVIDIA. We will review and test 13 graphics card to see how they compare with one another in different testing environments, games, and during overclocking. Make the right choice today with the help of our latest article!"
(04/04) nForce3 250 Chipset Overclocking by Hexus - "The board, model GA-K8NS, is the board Ryszard used in his initial nForce3 250 article. It's the same board that will appear in retail soon, save for a pre-production BIOS that will be stabilised before launch. It's at the value end of the market, but it still serves as a decent basis for our testing."
(04/04) AOpen AX4SG Max II i865G review by PCStats - "Along with DDR-2 comes PCI Express, a new Pentium 4 formfactor called LGA775, and further down the road BTX cases. Out goes AGP, ATX cases and regular DDR memory; quite a hard pill to swallow, but luckily there is still time to revel in fast hardware that doesn't require you to upgrade everything under the sun! The Intel Canterwood chipset still has plenty of life left in it, and i865G solutions make a good choice when speed, and cost are of equal importance. With that in mind, in this review we'll be testing out AOpen's brand new i865G-based Intel Pentium 4 AX4SG Max II motherboard!"
(04/04) Asus A7V880 VIA KT880 review by XBitLabs - "VIA KT880 chipset with the dual-channel memory proves the fact that Athlon XP shouldn’t be pushed into oblivion yet. If AMD Athlon 64 is the latest and greatest AMD offspring, then Athlon XP with the contemporary chipsets also can offer quite an attractive bunch of features and opportunities. With the launching of KT880 VIA hopes to finally outpace NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 due to the implementation of two memory channels and a bunch of additional functions. Let’s see if this is the case!"
(04/04) BFG GeForceFX 5900XT review by Bjorn3D - "If you are in the market for value, performance, and an easy and stable upgrade from your current graphics card, look no further than BFG Technologies’ new GeForce FX 5900XT OC. After many long days of testing, I can confidently and happily pat BFG Tech on the back for a job well done. They have delivered a card that performs excellently, offers excellent capability and compatibility with today’s latest games, and still offers a value that would make one lose sleep at night if it were ignored."
(04/04) Gigabyte Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB review by TechwareLabs - "RADEON 9800 technology is available in four product configurations built by ATI: RADEON 9800 XT, RADEON 9800 PRO 256MB, RADEON 9800 PRO 128MB and RADEON 9800 128MB. RADEON 9800 series of visual processors is the most visually advanced 3D performer on the planet, delivering an immersive, cinematic experience for the most demanding next-generation games with up to 256MB of DDR memory and a 256-bit memory interface. Merging advanced stability with revolutionary features, RADEON 9800 series is the only Visual Processing family in its 3rd generation."
(04/04) Gainward GeForceFX 5900XT review by Hexus - "It's therefore no surprise to see a review on HEXUS of the following graphics card, as it hits retail in a big way, giving consumers yet another mid-range choice. With Gainward sitting solidly on the NVIDIA side of the GPU fence, at least for the time being, mid-range means NVIDIA's 5900XT GPU, a slowly clocked NV35 part with a 256-bit memory bus. The slower core frequency than their own 5700 parts means slightly slower pixel and single texturing performance than their original mid-range refresh part, but the memory bus width ensures masses of memory bandwidth for the GPU to chew on, especially when dealing with anti-aliasing and texture sampling."
(04/04) nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra review by HardwareZone - "Codenamed NV40 and designated as the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series when launched on April 14th 2004, it instantly attained the title as the most advanced GPU design available in the consumer industry and we will be outlining some of its key highlights within this preview. Unlike the previous GPU, NV38, which was only launched in the 'Ultra' variant, the ultra high-end NV40 will be available as both the GeForce 6800 and GeForce 6800 Ultra versions. Previewed here today is the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra and we have compiled a technical specifications table summarizing the GPU's key highlights. You'll soon realize that this is nothing short of a monster GPU if you take into account all its hardware features (and requirements)."
(04/04) nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra preview by Bjorn3D - "If you visit sites like Bjorn3D.com in your daily quest for technological enlightenment, then you have probably been anticipating the launch of new graphics cards from ATI and NVIDIA for at least a couple weeks now. Well, your wait is finally over, since today is the day that NVIDIA announced its newest graphics cards, which have been named GeForce 6800 and GeForce 6800 Ultra (or GeForce 6 Series if you want to lump them together)."
(04/04) nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra review by Anandtech - "On April 9th I received an overnight delivery from NVIDIA. I opened the package and pulled out the attractive metallic briefcase that bore the NVIDIA logo. After wrestling with the combination lock, I opened the briefcase and was looking at a reference graphics card powered by NVIDIA's next-generation NV40 graphics processing unit (GPU). The preview unit was tagged as NV40-A1 and will be branded as the GeForce 6800 Ultra when it hits retail in late May. Revision A1 was outfitted with a 400MHz graphics processor and 256MB of Samsung Graphics Dual Data Rate (GDDR3) memory operating at 550MHz."
(04/04) nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra review by nVNews - "The GeForce 6800 Ultra is manufactured using IBM's 0.13-micron process technology and contains some 222 million transistors. The GeForce 6800 Ultra is based on a newly designed 16-pipeline superscalar architecture with support for DirectX 9 and Shader Model 3.0. Other notable features of the GeForce 6800 Ultra include High-Precision Dynamic-Range (HPDR) technology and the debut of the industry's first on-chip video processing engine. Image quality improvements have also been achieved by incorporating a rotated-grid antialiasing scheme and increasing the maximum level of anisotropic texture filtering from 8X to 16X."
(04/04) PowerColor Radeon 9800SE review by Bjorn3D - "Admit it. You want a Radeon 9800XT. All that pixel pumping power. But it all comes at a price -- a price that is too high for most of us. At the time of this review, the cheapest PowerColor 9800XT costs $412 at PriceGrabber. That is a lot of money. The solution of course is to buy a lesser spec’d card, and PowerColor has a solution for you -- the PowerColor 9800SE for a mere $143. My goal with this review is to examine the performance of this card and see how much less performance you get for almost $270 less."
(04/04) BFG GeForceFX 5900XT 128MB review by HardOCP - "BFG’s new video card we have for review today is their GeForceFX 5900XT OC. If you have read our MSI FX5900XT Review you will know what a 5900XT is. If you haven’t, here are the Cliff's Notes version. The NVIDIA GeForceFX 5900XT is based off of the same technology as the 5900 and the 5900Ultra GPU (NV35 core). The 5900XT is the least expensive of the 5900 series line being outperformed by the other 5900s. What makes it different from the 5900 and 5900Ultra is that it is a single slot solution with a re-designed PCB to reduce costs and combined with less expensive RAM. The core and memory frequencies have been reduced to 390MHz/700MHz (core/mem). For comparison a 5900 runs at 400MHz/800MHz and a 5900Ultra runs at 450MHz/850MHz. What is interesting about the BFG Tech 5900XT OC is that it runs at 430MHz/735MHz by default."
