(06/05) Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT review by Ultimate Hardware - "Inno3D Geforce 6600 GT review against the MSI Geforce FX 5900 XT, OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro and Sapphire Fireblade ATI Radeon 9600 XT. The following software was used during testing:- 3DMark 2003, 3DMark 2005, Doom III, Quake III Arena, Scrapland, Serious Sam 2 The Second Encounter, Tribes Vengeance, Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War, X2 The Threat & Xpand Rally."
(06/05) MSI NX6800-TD128E GeForce 6800 review by nVNews - "MSI is excited about the potential that their NX6800-TD128E video card offers when paired in an SLI system. They claim that it outperforms a single 6800 Ultra while costing less. As of this writing, the NX6800-TD128E will only set you back around $225. Don't let these 6800s fool you; the large, solid copper cooler that MSI added to these makes for some serious overclocking."
(06/05) Sapphire Radeon X800 XL review by TrustedReviews - "On its launch ATI’s X800 XL was pitched by the Canadian company as its answer to nVidia’s GeForce 6800 GT. And just as the 6800 GT was for nVidia, the XL has proven to be a great success for ATI. It’s not hard to see why. With a full 16-pipeline architecture and 256-bit memory interface it offered all the features and most of the performance of its higher end siblings, but crucially, without the cost."
(06/05) AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 preview by ExtremeTech - "Let's take a closer look at the FX-57. The new part is built on AMD's latest 90nm SOI (Silicon on Insulator) process, finally bringing AMD's unicore CPU to 90nm. AMD has been shipping CPUs built around the San Diego core using the new manufacturing process. Unlike AMD's earlier 90nm efforts, the newer process seems to scale very nicely to higher frequencies. Several months ago, AMD quietly began shipping new cores based on the San Diego (1MB L2 cache) and Venice (512KB L2 cache) cores, gradually transitioning its normal desktop line to the new CPU. Now the big Kahuna has arrived, so it's likely that AMD will begin scaling back 130nm production and converting all its 130nm fabs to 90nm, depending on transition costs and demand."
(06/05) Powercolor Radeon X700 review by DriverHeaven - "The mainstream market segment is where ATI and Nvidia (and their partners) make most of their sales, due to this we have a wealth of products in this price range. Two of the newest, and therefore most desirable, are the Radeon X700 and Geforce 6600. Both are aimed at the user who wants the latest features and to use them at reasonable resolutions like 1280x960 but doesn’t have the finances to spend more on their graphics card than the family’s monthly food budget. Today we have one of each product in for review, lets see how each card performs and find out which gets the best performance/price ratio."
(06/05) nVidia G70 GeForce 7800 GTX review by AnandTech - "The latest offering from NVIDIA does not offer a host of new features or any upgraded shader model version support as have the past few generations. The NV4x architecture remains a solid base for this product as the entire DirectX 9 feature set was already fully supported in hardware. Though the G70 (yes, the name change was just to reconcile code and marketing names) is directly based on the NV4x architecture, there are quite a few changes to the internals of the pipelines as well as an overall increase in the width and clock speed of the part. This new update much resembles what we saw when ATI moved from R300 to R420 in that most of the features and block diagrams are the same as last years part with a few revisions here and there to improve efficiency. "
(06/05) Intel Pentium D 820 review by LegitReviews - "Today, Legit Reviews will answer these questions, and give you our impression of Intel's budget dual core processor, the Intel Pentium D 820. Featuring a 2.8GHz core speed and 1 MB of L2 cache, the 820 not only promises vast improvement over hyper-threading when multitasking, but also a "smoother" performance in single thread applications"
(06/05) Sapphire Radeon X800 XL PCIe review by FiringSquad - "his has made the 6800 GT a favorite among the performance crowd as well as the consumer who wants high-end features, but doesn’t want to pay the lofty price tag such a graphics card usually commands. When you factor in NVIDIA’s recent price cuts on the entire GeForce 6800 lineup, the 6800 GT looks even more enticing. As a result, NVIDIA has been able to take back much of the high-end DX9 share they lost during the NV3x generation of GPUs."
(06/05) Leadtek GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB PCIe review by HardwareZone - "There is a definite increase in performance for typical applications going from 128MB to 256MB now, given that the graphics controller is of midrange standard at least. However as we have seen in our review of the Sapphire RADEON X800 XL 512MB , the performance gains may not be as impressive as the frame buffer size seems to indicate. While the 512MB version of the ATI RADEON X800 XL managed to grab the headlines from NVIDIA for a while - which may well be the whole point of the product - there are already a few 512MB versions of NVIDIA's top range GeForce 6800 Ultra in the market for a little while now. Today, we will be looking at one such rare card, the Leadtek WinFast PX6800 Ultra TDH 512MB."
(06/05) ECS Elitegroup RX480-A Radeon Xpress 200G review by HardwareZone - "With all the recent excitement regarding the new chipsets by big players like NVIDIA and Intel, we rarely see any mention about the underdogs. ATI released their RADEON EXPRESS 200P chipset for the Socket 939 Athlon 64 quite a while ago and HardwareZone had the scoop on its performance against the then current and upcoming Socket 939 chipsets. The RADEON EXPRESS 200P was not a shabby performer and could well have been an excellent entry-level alternative for the Athlon 64. Today, we bring you a review of the ECS RX480-A, a mainstream SOHO-centric motherboard that had an ace hidden up its sleeve. "
(06/05) MSI GeForce 6200 TC review by PCStats - "The MSI NX6200TC-TD32E is based on the GeForce 6200 Turbo Cache core and actually includes 32MB of onboard memory in addition to borrowing system memory when necessary. The card supports dual analog monitors and includes the necessary DVI-to-analog converter. The videocard also supports S-Video and Component output which should make it useful for HTPC use."
(06/05) ATi All-in-Wonder Radeon X800 XT review by Techreport - "As its name implies, the All-in-Wonder X800 XT is based on ATI's Radeon X800 XT graphics core. The All-in-Wonder's R420 graphics chip is identical to that of the Radeon X800 XT, as are its core and memory clock speeds, so 3D performance should on-par with the Radeon. However, unlike the Radeon X800 XT, which is available in AGP and PCI Express flavors, the AIW X800 XT is currently AGP-only. AGP support should make potential upgraders happy, but it's less than ideal for anyone looking to build a future-proof system from scratch. Unfortunately, ATI's only PCI Express All-in-Wonder is based on the dated Radeon X600 graphics core."
(06/05) Gigabyte Radeon X800 XL review by Bjorn3D - "Completely silent and fragtastic gaming? Oh yeah, baby, and it comes in the form of Gigabyte's Silent-Pipe Radeon X800 XL. By now, we all know that the X800 XL offers a lot of bang for the buck, and if you read my last couple of X800 XL reviews, you would know that ATI's stock cooler on the X800 XL is quite noisy. While some companies are releasing "quiet" or "nearly silent" X800 XL solutions, Gigabyte completely eliminated the noise problem by extending its Silent-Pipe technology to this excellent VPU."
(06/05) PowerColor Radeon X700 PCIe review by HardOCP - "What we have for review today is a full retail RADEON X700 from PowerColor known as the PowerColor Bravo X700 with 256MB of GDDR2. A few basic specs about the X700 series you should know. They have 8 pixel-pipelines and 6 vertex units and communicate with the memory over a 128-bit bus. They are based on the RADEON X800 3D architecture so they are capable of Shader Model 2.0 with Pixel Shader 2.0b, 3Dc, SMARTSHADER HD, SMOOTHVISION HD, VIDEOSHADER HD and HyperZ HD. The direct competition for the RADEON X700 is the GeForce 6600 (non-GT). The MSRP of the RADEON X700 is $149 for the 256MB model."
