(05/05) PowerColor Radeon X700 PCIe review by HardOCP - "Back when the ATI RADEON X700 series was announced in September of 2004, there were three distinct models. The RADEON X700 XT, the RADEON X700 Pro, and the RADEON X700. It was clear that the RADEON X700 XT would have 128MB of RAM and the X700 Pro would have 256MB. It seems, however, that the RADEON X700 XT we previewed here back in September of last year never seemed to actually materialize in the real world. In fact, in looking at ATI’s website right now to see what products are available under the RADEON X700 series, ATI only lists the X700 Pro in AGP and PCIe flavors officially."
(05/05) AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ review by PCPer - "The Athlon X2 processors are based on the Rev E stepping of the Athlon 64 core and include the SSE3 instructions as well as mixed memory support and support for a full four DIMM slot configuration. There were some other changes that were made as well that allow the new 90nm X2 processor to run at a significantly lower power/performance ratio than previous Athlon 64 processors. In our conclusions page, you'll see that our X2 4400+ doesn't use much more power than our 4000+ processor, which is running at 200 MHz faster frequency. "
(05/05) ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0 review by TweakNews - "With laptop computers not being the most expandable product on the market, they are limited to PCMIA cards or USB products which until the introduction of the USB 2.0 spec, were quite limited. Seeing that the USB 1.1 specification had a maximum bandwidth ceiling of 12MB/s, TV peripherals were heavily reliant on compression software to compress an image signal so it could operate within that constraint. This often lead to poor performance, high CPU usage and poor pixilated image quality. When USB 2.0 was released, that bandwidth ceiling shot up dramatically to 480Mb/s which opened up a lot of headroom and removed the need for compression software which lead to a much better picture and image."
(05/05) Intel Pentium D 820 review by XBitLabs - "The launch of dual-core AMD Athlon 64 X2 and Intel Pentium D/Intel Pentium Extreme Edition processors gave way to endless debates on numerous web-sites and hardware forums. Although these CPUs are not available in retail yet, the violent discussions of the performance highs and lows of the new dual-core AMD and Intel processors keep going on. Actually, it is evident already that AMD dual-core architecture turned out more successful from the performance point of view."
(05/05) Intel Pentium D 820 review by Bjorn3D - "Focusing on the enthusiast and high-end workstation markets, Intel started its multi-core desktop campaign last month by introducing the 955X Express chipset and Pentium Processor Extreme Edition dual-core CPU. Today's release is aimed at the mainstream market, though. The new mainstream chipsets are the 945G Express Chipset and 945P Express Chipset (the 'G' variant providing onboard graphics), and the three new mainstream dual-core processors are the Pentium D Processor 820, 830 and 840, which run at 2.8GHz, 3.0GHz and 3.2GHz, respectively. One of the big differences between the Pentium D line and the Pentium Extreme Edition dual-core CPU is that the Pentium D processors do not support Hyper-Threading."
(05/05) Chaintech GeForce 6800 review by LegionHardware - "Both ATi and NVIDIA have been hard at work delivering serious competition for one another with their latest generation of products. What was once known simply as the NV40 has become a number of high-end products. NVIDIA must cover every possible market segment if they wish to remain the biggest name in the graphics card industry. The end result being a number of unique NV4x based products. Currently we have the GeForce 6800, GeForce 6800 GT and GeForce 6800 Ultra. The GeForce 6800 Ultra is NVIDIAs current flagship product, designed to take on the ATi Radeon X850XT PE."
(05/05) BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB PCIe review by FiringSquad - "The last truly exciting graphics technology unveiling was nearly six months ago, in December of 2004, when ATI took the wraps off of its RADEON X850 XT PE graphics card. Even then, the product was little more than a juiced-up X800 with an extravagant, dual-slot cooler and an all-time higher price tag. Was it faster? Without question. Did it represent any noticeable advance? Not particularly."
(05/05) Sapphire Radeon X300SE HyperMemory review by Bjorn3D - "To make a respectable profit in the video card industry, a company cannot rely on its flagship cards to bring in high margins. Instead, a graphics card company must produce mid-level and low-end cards that will sell in big lots to OEMs. That's where the big money is. Several months ago, ATI and NVIDIA decided to spice up the low-end segment with their HyperMemory and TurboCache technologies, respectively."
(05/05) AMD Athlon 64 3800+ review by techPowerUp - "Advanced Micro Systems (AMD) has released a new revision of their Athlon64 S939, the code name is Venice. Venice is produced in 90nm, has 512KB Cache and is clocked betwen 1.8 GHz and 2.4 GHz. Compared to its predecessor, the Winchester, new features are support for SSE3 and an improved Integrated Memory Controller (IMC), which means the the CPU itself manages the computer's memory. With those improvements it is now possible to run 2GB memory at 200 MHz with a CommandRate of 2T. Previous CPUs were only able to run 2GB Memory in Async Mode (5:4 - Ram: 166 MHz 2T). We will test, if that has any effect on the memory's overclockability and if SSE3 does actually increase performance."
(05/05) ATi All-in-Wonder Radeon X600 Pro review by TrustedReviews - "The All-In-Wonder X600 Pro is significant in that it’s the first All-In-Wonder graphics card to be built around the new bi-directional PCI Express x16 technology, and although powered by an RV380 VPU it’s essentially a PCI Express adaptation of the RV350 Radeon 9600. The part comes equipped with 256MB of Hynix DDR SDRAM rated to run at 300MHz, which is precisely what it’s clocked at. The VPU is clocked a touch higher at 400MHz."
(05/05) Asus GeForce 6800 Ultra review by Hexus - "You've got a few choices when considering what form of high-end graphics you'd like to complement a PCI-Express motherboard. ATI offers its X850 line that's topped off by the XT and XT PE models. Given a budget of £250 upwards, NVIDIA offers even greater choice. You can go for the 16-pipeline GeForce 6800 GT and Ultra models, or, if you're feeling particularly rich, buy two of each and run them in multi-GPU SLI mode on nForce4 SLI and Intel i955X core logics."
(05/05) Asus Radeon X800 XL review by Viperlair - "Compared to some manufacturers names of their video cards, this is rather short and to the point. Basically Asus sent us the x800XL video card with 2 DVI ports and video-in/out. For a more direct listing of the specifications of this board please check out their website. We will look at most of the features of this card as we go, so lets see what this card looks like."
(05/05) AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ review by XBitLabs - "The dual-core processor family from AMD is called Athlon 64 X2. This name reflects not only the fact that the new dual-core solutions are based on AMD64 architecture, but also the fact that they are designed with two physical cores inside them."
