(12/06) AMD SEMPRON AM2 PROCESSORS AT ULTIMATE HARDWARE - "ADDED information about the Socket AM2 AMD Sempron 3800, AMD Sempron 3600, AMD Sempron 3500, AMD Sempron 3400, AMD Sempron 3200, AMD Sempron 3000 and AMD Sempron 2800."
(12/06) ATI AVIVO AND NVIDIA PUREVIDEO REVIEW AT THG - "Even though the Avivo vs. Purevideo competition has been discussed time and again, there are still important things unknown to most about video, some of which may surprise. These areas involve DVD playback quality, CPU utilization and video-encoding acceleration. But more importantly, we will focus on how to get everything to work - because if you don't know how to enable these great enhancements, all the comparisons in the world aren't worth a bag of magic beans."
(12/06) MID-RANGE GRAPHICS CARD WARFARE AMD VS NVIDIA AT TWEAKTOWN - "Today we have with us a total of four mid-range graphics cards - two from AMD and two from nVidia. While all cards are mid-range, its clear that they sit at different end of the scales lets call them low-end mid-range and high-end mid-range. The Radeon X1650XT and GeForce 7600GT sits at the lower end of the mid-range scale and at the other end we have the GeForce 7900GS and the Radeon X1950PRO. While offering high-end type performance, the 7900GS and X1950PRO still in belong at the mid-range level due to their pricing."
(12/06) ALBATRON GEFORCE 7600 GS 256MB REVIEW AT SHARKY EXTREME - "The GeForce 7600 GS is based on the 90nm G73 core, which in turns also powers the GeForce 7600 GT. This GPU is designed to replace the popular GeForce 6600 GT and bring a value mainstream entry into the GeForce 7 Series of video cards. This GPU features the same basic specs as the GeForce 7600 GT, including 12 pixel pipes, 12 texture units, 12 pixel shaders, and 5 vertex pipelines. Even the memory architecture is the same, with the GeForce 7600 GS including a 128-bit link to 256MB of GDDR2. Other features such as NVIDIA SLI, CineFX 4.0, Intellisample 4.0, UltraShadow II, and PureVideo are all supported by the GeForce 7600 GS."
(12/06) GALAXY GEFORCE 7900 GS ZALMAN EDITION REVIEW AT GURU3D - "Today we'll be looking at the mid-range GeForce 7900 GS 256Mb from Galaxy. Now this sub-200 EUR graphics card is, let's be honest here, quite affordable and offers a stackload of features."
(12/06) UNREAL3 ENGINE PERFORMANCE AT AMDZONE - "Article benchmarking the recently released Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas, based off of the brand new Unreal 3 engine. I test through a number of video cards at different resolutions and also include some nice screenshots and videos."
(12/06) DFI LANPARTY UT ICFX3200-T2R REVIEW AT ANANDTECH - "It has been over a year since ATI announced CrossFire for Intel. The original reference board that we looked at was code named Stingray and to be quite honest, performance was not up to par at that time even though the feature list was class leading. The main issue that we found with Stingray was its DDR2 memory performance. While the RD480 for AMD was launched amidst a lot of fanfare and was soon followed up with the impressive RD580/SB600 combination for AMD, the ATI Intel chipset design lagged in both development and performance."
(12/06) AMD 65NM BRISBANE CORE PREVIEW AT ANANDTECH - "When Intel launched its Core 2 line of processors we saw AMD's performance and power advantages vanish into thin air but the comparison, at least on the power side, wasn't totally fair. Intel had been shipping desktop processors on its 65nm process for months prior to the launch of Core 2, while AMD's Athlon 64 X2s were still built on a 90nm process. We had no way of telling how much of Intel's power advantage was due to a more efficient architecture or simply smaller, cooler running transistors. Up to now, AMD has been penalized twice in all Core 2 vs. Athlon 64 X2 comparisons; AMD's new micro-architecture won't debut until next year and neither will 65nm in any great quantities."
(12/06) SAPPHIRE RADEON X1950XT 256MB REVIEW AT THE BUNKER - "Today I am reviewing my recently purchased the Sapphire 256 MB X1950XT PCI-Express Graphics card. This graphics card is very similar to the X1900XT, only featuring some higher speed 256mb 1.0ns memory that has a stock speed of 1800 MHz. Like the X1900, it features 48 pixel shaders and features HDCP support."
(12/06) AMD SEMPRON 3000+ AND CELERON D 331 REVIEW AT HARDWARE SECRETS - "We finally got to review processors designed to the low-end market, i.e., the most inexpensive processors in the market. Nowadays Intel has the advantage on the high-end market, but who gets to be the best at the low cost PC market? Read our review and find out."
(12/06) MSI NX 8800 GTX REVIEW AT VIPERLAIR - "Today we are going to be looking at a final, full retail version of MSI's NX8800GTX video card. Early batches of the 8800GTX had some issues around the PCB components but that was taken care just prior to the official launch. The product we'll be looking at today should be the same as the one you'll find at B&M or E-Shelves."
(12/06) POWERCOLOR RADEON X1650 XT REVIEW AT ELITEBS - "To be perfectly honest, the assertion that the Radeon X1650 XT runs on a core called RV560 is really quite fallacious in the extreme. RV560 is, in fact, the exact same RV570 core which we've seen power Radeon X1950 PRO boards, albeit with some functionality disabled."
(12/06) MSI RADEON X1650 XT REVIEW AT LEGION HARDWARE - "The MSI Radeon X1650XT features dual-DVI connectors along with 256MB of onboard GDDR-3 memory utilizing a 128-bit wide memory bus. MSI has followed the ATI specifications, clocking their Radeon X1650XT at the standard frequencies, which includes a 575MHz core and 1380MHz memory clock. The X1650XT features 24 pixel pipelines along with 8 vertex shader processors and a single texture mapping unit. While the specifications and PCB design match that of the ATI reference design, MSI has been creative with their cooling solution, as you will see in the various photos we have taken."
(12/06) ECS PX1 EXTREME REVIEW AT TECHREPORT - "LONG A STAPLE in the budget world, ECS recently turned its attention up market with an "Extreme" line of motherboards geared toward enthusiasts. ECS's first Extreme offerings were reasonably solid boards, but despite flashy colors and neon extras, they lacked many of the tweaking and overclocking options that enthusiasts have come to expect. Undeterred, and apparently eager to improve, ECS pressed on and introduced a new wave of Extreme boards, including the PX1 Extreme for Intel's new Core 2 processors."
