Albatron launches PC6600U card

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: December 2, 2004 - 7:21 AM PST Category: Video More Info: http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/vga/specification.asp?pro_id=124 Albatron released a new PCI Express GeForce 6600 card featuring a new heatpipe technology and 128 MB of high speed BGA memory (2.8 ns) that promises to take its performance close to 6600 GT heights. The PC6600U has eight pixel pipelines, 128-bit interface and is clocked at 350 MHz. It comes with VGA, DVI and TV-Out connectors and includes the “Arx Fatalis” game. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Comments (0) top

HIS releases X700 Pro IceQ TURBO

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: November 28, 2004 - 9:36 PM PST Category: Video More Info: http://www.hisdigital.com/html/product_ov.php?id=140&view=yes HIS extended its IceQ series with the release of a feature-packed Radeon X700 Pro card. The X700Pro IceQ TURBO includes iTURBO overclocking technology, a blue led fan and a UV sensitive case. The card has eight pixel pipelines, 128-bit memory bus and is clocked at 425 MHz. It packs 256 MB of GDDR3 memory at 864 MHz and comes with VGA, HDTV-Out, DVI and VIVO connectors. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Comments (0) top

ATI introduces Mobility X300 and X800

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: November 24, 2004 - 7:58 PM PST Category: Video More Info: http://www.ati.com/products/mobilityradeonx300x800.html ATI introduced new mobile PCI Express chips to the low-end and high-end market segments. The Mobility X300, with four pixel pipelines and 128-bit interface, is targeted at cheaper systems. The Mobility X800 is a version of the most advanced Radeon architecture and offers features such as 12 pixel pipelines, GDDR3 memory, 256-bit interface, 3Dc image enhancement technology and HD VideoShader. Both chips features PowerPlay 5.0 power management capabilities. The first notebooks sporting the Mobility X300 and X800 should appear in December. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Comments (0) top

Futuremark releases 3Dmark03 patch

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: November 23, 2004 - 9:33 AM PST Category: Video More Info: http://www.futuremark.com/download Futuremark released a patch to the 3DMark03 providing the new valid version (3.5.0) of the benchmark suite. Only scores obtained through this version and with approved drivers will be used in official statistics, comparisons and services provided by the company. Among the novelties, are an updated System Info module with support for the latest CPU and graphics hardware; updated version of the Entech library, which is used to detect the clock frequency of the graphics chip core and memory; and the usual corrections for reported bugs. The 5.2 MB patch can be dowloaded for free. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Comments (0) top

Sparkle releases 6600 GT AGP

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: November 18, 2004 - 9:59 AM PST Category: Video More Info: http://www.sparkle.com.tw Sparkle released its first GeForce 6600 GT VGA card with AGP 8x interface. The SP-AG43GDH has eight pixel pipelines, runs at 500 MHz and includes 128 MB GDDR3 memory at 900 MHz with 128-bit interface. The card comes with VGA, DVI and (HD)TV-Out connectors. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Comments (0) top

Tul unveils silent X700 XT card

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: November 17, 2004 - 7:54 AM PST Category: Video More Info: http://www.tul.com.tw/Global/productlist.aspx?folderid=1&cat1=12&cat2=... Tul announced a PowerColor card based on the Radeon X700 XT VPU with the new Silent Cooling System, a high performance fanless cooler using heatpipe technology with gold-plated copper tube. The SCS X700XT has eight pixel pipelines, 128-bit memory bus and is clocked at 475 MHz. It is available with up to 256 MB GDDR3 memory at 1,050 MHz. The PCI Express card comes with VGA, TV-Out, Dual-DVI and VIVO connectors. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Comments (0) top

ATI releases new Catalyst driver

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: November 13, 2004 - 7:34 PM PST Category: Video More Info: http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html ATI has just released the latest version (4.11) of its Catalyst driver. According to the company, this is a minor update, containing bug fixes and improvements such as a new monitor tab for each display device. The suite updates both the ATI Display Driver (8.071) and the Catalyst Control Center (4.11). The latter is recommended only for Radeon 9500 or higher cards. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Comments (0) top

Nvidia unveils GeForce Go 6800 GPU

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: November 11, 2004 - 7:03 AM PST Category: Video More Info: http://www.nvidia.com/page/go_6800.html Nvidia unveiled this week its first mobile graphics chip based on GeForce 6 series architecture. The GeForce Go 6800 is a PCI Express GPU for desktop replacement notebooks featuring 12 pixel pipelines, 5 vertex pipelines and 256-bit memory interface. Nvidia plans to ship different versions clocked at from 275 MHz to 450 MHz with memory frequencies ranging from 400 MHz to 600 MHz. Additional features include a video decoding acceleration technology called PureVideo and power consumption management tool PowerMizer 5.0. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Comments (0) top

Fatal1ty X700-XT from ABIT

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: November 2, 2004 - 8:20 PM PST Category: Video More Info: http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/graphiccard/graphiccard_detail.php?pMOD... ABIT has also announced a Radeon X700 XT card as part of its Fatal1ty hardware series. The PCI Express card has eight pixel pipelines, 128-bit memory bus and is clocked at 475 MHz. It uses 256 MB of GDDR3 memory (1.6 ns) running at 1050 MHz. Special features include copper heatsink, copper RAMsinks and OC Strips. The card comes with VGA, DVI and TV-out connectors. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Comments (0) top

Tul warns about forged cards

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: October 19, 2004 - 9:03 AM PST Category: Video More Info: http://www.tul.com.tw The graphic cards maker Tul has alerted its customers about the existence of forged PowerColor Radeon 9600 Pro graphics cards, found in market earlier this month. Apparently, some cards are being sold as PowerColor Radeon 9600, but use Radeon 9550 graphic chips instead. Tul added that is has already announced the discontinuation of the PowerColor RADEON 9600 PRO 128 MB available in 400/600MHz in June. The company sent out warnings to its partners and posted an announcement on its website. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News top

Gigabyte launches Radeon X700 Pro

Author: Gabriel Torres Date: October 13, 2004 - 5:26 PM PST Category: Video More Info: http://tw.giga-byte.com/Products/VGA/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=... Gigabyte has just announced its Radeon X700 Pro solutions. Available in two models, GV-RX70P256V and GV-RX70P128D, the Radeon X700 Pro chip runs at 425 MHz with 256 MB or 128 MB of GDDR3 memory running at 860 MHz, 128-bit memory bus and eight pixel pipelines. The 256 MB version from Gigabyte also comes with VIVO (video capture) function. Both models are PCI Express x16. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News top

XGI launches Volari Z7

Author: Gabriel Torres Date: October 13, 2004 - 4:59 PM PST Category: Video More Info: http://www.xgitech.com/products/products_2.asp?P=14 XGI has just released a new graphics chip, called Volari Z7. It has only a 2D graphics engine and it is target to the specialized market, like thin clients. Using the PCI bus, this chip can use from 8 MB to 128 MB of DDR, DDR2 or GDDR3 memories. It supports up to 1600 x 1200 resolution. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News top

Nvidia announces GeForce 6200

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: October 11, 2004 - 8:52 PM PST Category: Video More Info: http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce_6200.html Nvidia announced the GeForce 6200, a new graphics processing unit that promises to deliver high level performance to the value PC segment. The new GPU includes PCI Express connectivity and supports DirectX 9.0 and Shader Model 3.0. The GeForce 6200 contains four rendering pipelines, 128-bit memory interface, but uses common DDR memory and does not support such tecnologies as SLI, that allows multiple GPUs in a single system. Boards based on GeForce 6200 chips will ship in November. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News top

New GeForce 6600 cards from Gigabyte

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: October 10, 2004 - 8:07 AM PST Category: Video More Info: http://tw.giga-byte.com/Products/VGA/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=... Gigabyte has released three PCI Express VGA cards based on the GeForce 6600/GT, which includes SLI technology to combine multiple GPUs in a single system. GV-NX66T256D (GeForce 6600 GT) comes with eight rendering pipelines, 128-bit memory interface and 256 MB of GDDR3 memory. The game bundle includes the long awaited "Doom 3". The lower-cost GV-NX66T128D has only 128 MB of memory and is bundled with "Thief" and "Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising". The third model, GV-NX66128D, is based on the GeForce 6600 and uses 128 MB of DDR memory. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News top

X700 from GeCube

Author: Gabriel Torres Date: October 7, 2004 - 6:06 AM PST Category: Video More Info: http://www.gecube.com/products-02.php?prod_search=x700 GeCube, a VGA company owned by Gigabyte, has just released their X700 models, all based on the new PCI Express bus. All models have eight rendering channels, 128-bit interface, GDDR3 memory and VGA, DVI-I and S-Video connectors. The high-end boards are based on the Radeon X700 XT (475 MHz core and 1,050 MHz memory clocks): RX700XTG-C3 128MB, RX700XTG-D3 256MB and RX700XTG-VIVO 256MB (with video capture). Two other models use the mid-range X700 Pro chip (420 MHz core and 864 MHz memory clocks): RX700PROG-C3 128MB and RX700PROG-D3 256MB. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News top