Graphics Cards, PC Monitors And Computer Audio Reviews And News
The sights and sounds of the modern computing experience are driven by key user interface technologies like graphics cards, display monitors and various audio solutions. Here you'll find reviews and news on the latest in cutting-technologies for GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), LED and LCD computer display monitors, sound cards, PC and wireless speaker systems and more.
The Asus V9950 Ultra - GeForce FX 5900 Ultra The First Single-Slot Ultra to Hit Our Lab... By - Marco Chiappetta September 9, 2003 Recently it seems as though NVIDIA has made a few wrong moves, that got them a ton of bad press. First, there was the whole 3DMark03 situation. Then came the Unreal Tournament 2003 filtering "bug". These...
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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 And The ATi FireGL X1 Professional Graphics Solutions Do Battle By: Dave Altavilla August 20, 2003 Professional Graphics Cards are sort of an oddity to us here at HotHardware.com. Admittedly, we don't get to tinker enough in this area, since frankly the market that is served by these products...
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ATi's All-In-Wonder 9600 Pro Unveiled Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Any Better By: Jeff Bouton August 5th, 2003 It's hard to believe that ATi pioneered the TV/Video card with their All-In-Wonder product line and years later we find little competition in sight aside from nVidia's Personal Cinema line. Perhaps the...
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The Sapphire Ultimate Edition Atlantis 9800 Pro & The Sapphire Ultimate Edition Atlantis 9600 Pro A Couple of Passively Cooled, Wild Looking Radeons! By - Marco Chiappetta July 25, 2003 ATi's Radeon 9800 Pro and 9600 Pro GPUs are two of the most popular 3D chipsets on the market today. A multitude of OEMs build boards based on these...
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The Tyan Tachyon G9600 Pro A Little Something To Break the Monotony By - Marco Chiappetta August 6, 2003 For the last few months, budget conscious enthusiasts have been enamored with ATi's Radeon 9600 Pro GPU. And when you really think about it, what's not to like? It's a relatively inexpensive product, with a great feature set...
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The Gigabyte GV-R98P128D Powered by the ATi Radeon 9800 Pro By - Marco Chiappetta July 17, 2003 At the moment, gamers looking for a "Top-of-the-Line" graphics card, basically have two GPUs to choose from, either an ATi Radeon 9800 Pro or an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900. Video cards based on these two GPUs are so evenly matched, they...
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VisionTek Xtasy 9800 Pro 128MB AGP Back from the Dead with a Whole New Attitude By - Jeff Bouton July 1, 2003 It wasn't that long ago that VisionTek was one of the top manufacturers of nVidia based graphics cards. The Xtasy line offered a wide range of solutions, from the budget MX series, to the top card of the day, the GeForce 4 Ti4600. ...
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The M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Viva la revolución! "Burned in" by Robert Maloney June 23rd, 2003 The history of the audio card industry can be summed up by saying there has always been Creative Lab's SoundBlaster line, and then there have been the "others". When Aureal disappeared from the picture in 2000, it seemed to...
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Sapphire Radeon 9200 Atlantis 128MB Vivo/TV-Out With ATi's Catalyst 3.4 Drivers By - Tom Laverriere June 12, 2003 The graphics card industry is a vicious one. The relentless six month product cycle means PC enthusiasts are out shopping twice a year for a video card upgrade. At $400 a whack for the top performing cards, their wallets...
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ATI ALL-IN-WONDER 9800 PRO Press Releases & Screenshots... CLICK IMAGE FOR AN ENLARGED VIEW EAZYLOOK MENUS: CHAPTER SELECTION INFO SCREEN LIBRARY SCREEN LIBRARY SELECTION MEDIA INFORMATION PERMANENT ICONS TRICK-PLAY MODE VOLUME CONTROL ATI's New ALL-IN-WONDER® 9800 PRO Delivers...
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ATi's All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro When You've Got To Have It All By: Dave Atlavilla June 9, 2003 Circuit Design, whether it be at the chip level or board level, is truly an art form. Electrical Engineers and Architects are challenged with optimizing functionality, performance and cost, into an ever shrinking piece of...
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The NV35 Doom3 Advantage UltraShadow Technology Accelerating The Gloom By - Dave Altavilla June 4, 2003 With Id Software's upcoming Doom3 title looming on the not so distant horizon, we've been taking a sincere interest in Id's new game engine. Since it will obviously become a definitive tool in our benchmarking test suite,...
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The MSI GeForce FX5200 TDR128 A Budget Card with a Little Extra By: Jeff Bouton June 3rd, 2003 If there is one thing that is certain, it's that there is no other channel of the PC hardware industry more heated in competition and embroiled in controversy than the graphics sector. This is a fierce market consumed with debates over...
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ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 Pro Multimedia and Gaming Power on a Budget By: Jeff Bouton May 25th, 2003 There are lots of companies on the market that develop hardware to bring TV to the PC but ATi is one that stands out ahead of the pack somewhat. ATi has been making TV Tuner cards for many years now and their experience really...
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Battle Of The 256MB Graphics Cards Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB Vs. GeForce FX 5900 Ultra ATi's Catalyst 3.4 Drivers and 256MB R9800 Pro Vs. The New NVIDIA Flagship By - Dave Altavilla May 20, 2003 On May 12th we showcased our review of NVIDIA's follow-on product to the NV30, the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, based on NVIDIA's NV35 core. ...
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The 256MB ATi Radeon 9800 Pro It's Here! But What Does the Extra Memory Mean to Gamers? By - Marco Chiappetta May 12, 2003 Gamers and Enthusiasts always seem to be looking for their next major upgrade. There's almost a quest for that one piece of hardware that's going to give them bragging rights and make their buddies green with...
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The GeForce FX 5900 Ultra A Preview And Performance Analysis With NVIDIA's New Killer By - Dave Altavilla May 12, 2003 Here we are again, with another installment of my pixel is faster than yours. Why is it that Graphics Cards create so much buzz in the PC Enthusiast market? Perhaps it's because Processors, Motherboards,...
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The Tyan Tachyon G9500 Pro A Power-packed card for the mainstream "Burned in" by Robert Maloney May 8, 2003 Often, when you look at hardware ads in magazines, you will see somewhere in there a benchmark score. A 3DMark score to be more specific, will scream "16,348 out of the box", or list the system...
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Leadtek WinFast A300 Ultra TD MyVIVO A "Friendly" GeForceFX 5800 Ultra... By - Marco Chiappetta April 25, 2003 NVIDIA's latest flagship GPU the NV30, now known as the GeForce FX 5800, has been a long time coming. Products based on the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra are just now starting to arrive in very limited quantities. The...
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The ATi Radeon 9600 Overclocked & Ready To Rock... By - Marco Chiappetta April 18, 2003 Early Wednesday morning, the NDAs were lifted and multiple ATi Radeon 9600 Pro reviews hit the web. Most analysts came to similar conclusions, praising the 9600 Pro for its feature set and image quality, but they came away a bit disappointed that...
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HERCULES® introduces 3D Prophet 9800 Pro The graphics board for hardcore gamers By. Jay R. Gibson April 16, 2003 Montreal, April 15, 2003 - Hercules® is delighted to announce the launch of 3D Prophet 9800 Pro, its new flagship graphics board based on ATI®'s latest and fastest chipset. 3D Prophet 9800 Pro is the most recent addition...
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The ATi Radeon 9600 Pro Debut Decent card, fuzzy naming convention By - Marco Chiappetta April 16, 2003 It seems like we've been covering new video card releases on an almost weekly basis over the last few months. Since the beginning of the year, we've seen NVIDIA announce, and then release, multiple flavors of GeForce FX cards, albeit...
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