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(09/03) Inno3D GeForce 5600 Ultra review by Ultimate Hardware - "Inno3D Geforce FX 5600 Ultra article testing against the MSI Geforce4 Ti4200, Inno3D Geforce FX 5200 Ultra and XFX Geforce FX 5200. Software used for benchmarking is as follows:- 3dmark 2001 SE, 3dmark 2003, GL Excess, Quake III Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Serious Sam the Second Encounter and Unreal Tournament 2003."

(09/03) DFI LANparty NFII Ultra nForce2 review by Hexus - "DFI (Diamond Flower International) impressed us with its feature-filled Canterwood board that sits in the new LANParty range. We were also impressed by DFI's KT400A LANParty model, one that featured highly in our recent multi-board roundup. It's of no real surprise, then, that DFI has an nForce2 Ultra 400 board with the requisite LANParty packaging and presentation. If recently history is a good predictor of present performance, the DFI LANParty NFII ULTRA should be a welcome addition to family. It's time to wrestle with the huge box and get to the bottom of what makes this package tick."

(09/03) Inno3D Tornado GeForceFX 5900 review by Digit-Life - "The High-End cards coming under the Inno3D trade mark have all needed characteristics expected from expensive products. However, the negative attitude towards Inno3D's low-end cards and faked cards affects the company's image. Every firm can have defective goods even in the High-End sector, and you should simply replace such card. I haven't noticed yet any cases of reducing the bus bandwidth or clock speeds of the High-End (GeForce3, GeForce3 Ti500, GeForce4 Ti 4600, GeForce FX 5800, GeForce FX 5900, RADEON 8500 (not LE!), RADEON 9700 PRO, RADEON 9800 PRO)."

(09/03) VIA K8T800 Chipset review by LegionHardware - "Currently AMD offer three chipsets designed for use with the Opteron processors offering support for technologies such as AGP 3.0, HyperTransport and PCI-X. The newly released VIA K8T800 chipset will not only compete with these three AMD chipsets but it will also go head to head with the nForce3 chipset for NVIDIA. The VIA K8T800 has an impressive list of features as it is paired with the VIA VT8237 south bridge. The chipset also features V-RAID, the industry's first integrated multi-configuration Serial ATA (SATA)/RAID controller, enabling RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations."

(09/03) Gainward GeForce FX 5600 review by Guru3D - "The 5600 series has a 128-bit memory interface and this product has 128 MB of it. Furthermore we'll find a dual 400MHz unit RAMDAC. When we look at core and memory speeds we'll notice the Golden Sample specification immediately. A standard (reference) based 5600 Ultra has a 350 MHz core and (2x)350 MHz memory frequency. This golden sample series is clocked at a 450 MHz core and 900 MHz memory frequency making it way faster and high clocked compared to a generic board from the competition. Remember, this is your default setting. In today's review we are going to have a look at the performance of this golden sample compared towards high-end graphics cards and of course the Radeon 9600 Pro."

(09/03) ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB review by Bjorn3D - "256MB. This is how much memory many laptops come with today. This is 128 times more memory than I had in my first PC, a 466SX from IBM. This also is 128 times more memory than my first 3D card had (the Rendition V1000). Finally, this is the amount of memory that ATI’s flagship, the Radeon 9800 256MB Pro, has. Today I am taking a look at this beast and pitting it against its main rival, the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra."

(09/03) Albatron KX18D Pro II nForce2 review by PCStats - "With the beloved AMD K7 near the end of its life, and the Athlon64 around the corner, a few manufacturers are having one last dance with the Athlon before it goes down in the history books. Today we're going to be taking a look at Albatron's KX18D Pro II nForce2 Ultra 400 based motherboard."

(09/03) GeForceFX 5600 Ultra roundup by Digit-Life - "The GeForce FX 5600 Ultra is a direct competitor of ATI's RADEON 9600 PRO. Unfortunately, the prices for the RADEON fall down slower, though the situation has recently changed a little. Note that there are two kinds of the 5600 Ultra: 350 and 400 MHz. Some card makers offer both versions (Albatron, Chaintech, Leadtek, ABIT and others). ASUSTeK and Gainward have only the 400MHz cards to offer. "

(09/03) Club3D Radeon 9800 Pro review by XBitLabs - "Club3D Company, which is one of the biggest partners of the Canadian ATI Technologies in the European market, gave us an opportunity to take a closer look at one of the fastest PC graphics accelerators: Club3D RADEON 9800 PRO graphics card. Is this the most wanted performance graphics card of today?"

(09/03) BFG Asylum FX 5900 Ultra review by Bjorn3D - "As many of our readers might know, I’m one of the few on our site who has been using ATI cards for the past year. Because of this, it took a bit longer for me to finally get my hands on an NVIDIA FX 5900 Ultra card, and I’ve been looking forward to it. I looked forward to it not just because I love to play with the new and cool stuff. No, the most important reason is that during the year I’ve been using the ATI cards, NVIDIA somehow has gotten a bad reputation. If you listen to some sites, NVIDIA cards now are slow, have bad Image Quality and quite frankly suck. I really wanted to find out if this was true. Are NVIDIA’s cards no longer worth buying?"

(09/03) PowerColor Radeon roundup by Digit-Life - "What if we make a hybrid of the RADEON 9600 and 9600 PRO? Well, this is what C.P.Technology did: it launched the RADEON 9600 PRO EZ. This solution is based on a cheaper PCB from the RADEON 9600, has cheaper TSOP memory, but the chip used is RADEON 9600 PRO (400 MHz). That resulted in a card with just the memory clock lowered (relative the RADEON 9600 PRO - 200 (400) MHz instead of 300 (600)). Later on we will estimate its performance, but do remember that it's just a bit dearer than the RADEON 9600."

(09/03) Creative GeForceFX 5900 Ultra review by NVNews - "We are pleased to present our review of the 3D Blaster 5 FX5900 Ultra from Creative Labs. The 3D Blaster 5 FX5900 Ultra is Creative's top performing graphics card and is based on NVIDIA's NV35 graphics processing unit (GPU). A few years ago, I owned a Creative 32MB GeForce2 GTS, which was marketed under the Annihilator 2 brand name. At that time major computer retailers acress the United States carried the Annihilator brand. But today, the 3D Blaster product line is limited to the European market."

(09/03) GeForceFX 5900 vs ATi Radeon 9800 by XBitLabs - "Today we are going to compare the performance NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 and 5900 Ultra based graphics cards with their rivals from the ATI family: solutions on ATI RADEON 9800 and 9800 Pro. The full set of benchmarks, absolutely new gaming tests, impressive overclocking results and more!"

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