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ATI Radeon X1950 Pro

ATI's Radeon X1950 Pro is supposed to accomplish three things if you're shopping for a graphics card. It's supposed to be a $199 3D card, it's supposed to compare well with Nvidia's recently released GeForce 7900 GS card, and if you're of the mind to add two cards to one...

Tags: ATI Radeon X1950 Pro, ATI Radeon, ATI Technologies Inc., Radeon, Radeon X1950 Pro, Radeon X1950, card

Product reviews 2006-10-19

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX (512MB)

Windows Vista and DirectX 10 are, barring further delays, a mere five months away, and with them will come next-gen PC games, such as Crysis. Based on previews of Crysis we saw at this year's E3, if you have the hardware to run it, you will be treated to a...

Tags: Games, ATI Radeon, Radeon, Radeon X1950 XTX, Radeon X1950, card, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., DirectX, 3D

Product reviews 2006-08-23

Additional Resources

Report: AMD to challenge Nvidia's $60 graphics

Report: AMD to challenge Nvidia's $60 graphicsAMD 4650 for 780G chipset?I don't think it will work well with Radeon HD 3200 chipset as a Hybrid Crossfire... :(i want...I want my discrete graphics card to turn itself off when not needed. Make sure it will be possible with your next integrated...

Tags: Chipsets, Video cards, graphics, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., video card, NVidia Corp., chipset

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Report: AMD to challenge Nvidia's $60 graphics

The cost of good graphics is going down fast. AMD plans to release new versions of its ATI Radeon 4000-series graphics processing units GPUs for entry-level graphics cards, according to the site TGDaily. The new cards are a response to Nvdia's new 9400 GT, which was announced...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Radeon, GPU, Tom, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Fujitsu LifeBook A6120 (2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8400)

The Fujitsu LifeBook A6210's $1,349 price tag may seem a bit high for a midsize laptop, especially considering that many similarly sized systems cost less than $1,000. But the Fujitsu has a number of features that help justify the higher price: namely, a built-in Blu-ray drive, ATI Mobility Radeon HD...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu LifeBook, Intel Core 2 Duo, laptop computer, Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2008-08-29

AMD/ATI Catalyst 8.8 downclocks GPU on detecting FurMark

Interesting piece over on Geeks3D - it seems that the latest Catalyst 8.8 drivers released a few days ago by AMD have a built-in feature that detects when the user has the FurMark OpenGL benchmark running and downclocks the GPU on the Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870 to...

Tags: Cisco Catalyst, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Radeon, GPU, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-08-27

HP Pavilion dv5-1004nr

Note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The HP Pavilion dv5-1004nr is a slightly more powerful version of the Pavilion dv5-1002nr system we reviewed earlier this month, providing a bit more processing power, more memory,...

Tags: Desktops, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, laptop computer

Product reviews 2008-08-19

HP Pavilion Elite m9300t

At its core, our $1,100 HP Pavilion Elite m9300t review unit is a reasonably priced example of HP's midrange desktop. It gives you about $900 worth of basic computer, and an extra $200 in home theater-style extras. The good news is that this system is configurable, so if, like us,...

Tags: Desktops, DVD, Consumer electronics, Network technology, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, HP Pavilion Elite

Product reviews 2008-08-18

Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attack

Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attackIt will take more then empty ....... rhetoric to give them back the title. Even if Intel is copying them it is little solice considering Intel's manufacturing lead.liars.Intel had IMC first in Timna before AMD had it in any of their chips....

Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., big show, intel

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attack

With Intel's annual conference set to start this week, AMD launched a pre-emptive strike in a press conference on Friday. AMD executives said the processor innovations you'll hear about next week are imitations of technology they introduced as much as five years ago, and Intel's Larrabee graphics...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Attack, Imitation, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Get the best graphics card upgrade

Get the best graphics card upgradePerformance CheckThe low-end part was right, but then again upgrading to just about any card >$100 from a low-end is common sense. Moving on, say you do have a 8800GT or a HD3870, the HD4850 happens to be a rather large upgrade to either card...

Tags: Processors, Games, graphics, video card, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., HD4850

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

NVIDIA responds to Intel's Larrabee GPU

Intel's forthcoming multi-core Larrabee graphics processing unit GPU promises a chip "with comparable performance to GPUs on the market at that time." The upcoming chip has raises the hackles of fierce GPU competitors ATI and NVIDIA. NVIDIA PR sent me an email with "a couple of things...

Tags: NVidia Corp., CPU, Graphics, Intel Corp., GPU, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-13

News to know: SAP; Microsoft patches; Nvidia; iPhone

Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do Michael Krigsman: Business Objects Influencer Summit: Strategy to execution Larry Dignan: Microsoft plugs IE, Office in big patch haul Roland Piquepaille: No more need for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, NVidia Corp., Patch Management, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, 3G, E-books, Web Browsers, Linux, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-08-13

Review roundup: AMD's Radeon 4870 X2 delivers

Review roundup: AMD's Radeon 4870 X2 deliversGo ATI. Nvidia takes another dump, G92&G94parts appear to be bad.http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/12/nvidia-g92s-g94-reportedly

Tags: Radeon 4870 X2, Review Roundup, Radeon 4870, Radeon, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

Review roundup: AMD's Radeon 4870 X2 delivers

AMD has been on a roll lately with its Radeon 4800 series GPUs, and with the official introduction of the Radeon 4870 X2, it can now claim the world's fastest 3D gaming card. The Radeon 4870 X2 combines two of AMD's fastest GPU, the RV770, each clocked...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Radeon, GPU, Radeon 4870 X2, Games, Video Cards, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Apple iMac (20-inch, 2.4GHz)

We've already shown our affection for Apple's highest-end iMac, but with back-to-school shopping season in full-swing, the time felt right to fill in a gap in our review database by covering the lowest-end, $1,200, 20-inch model. What we find is that the most affordable iMac has the usual content-creation strengths...

Tags: Desktops, Apple iMac, Apple Inc.

Product reviews 2008-08-11

HP announces three new EliteBooks

HP rounded out its new EliteBook line with the announcement today of three new models. The EliteBook 8730w, a 17-inch mobile workstation, is HP's first laptop with its DreamColor displays. The EliteBook 8530w Mobile Workstation and HP EliteBook 8530p are 15.4-inch models. The 8730w's DreamColor LED-backlit...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mobile Workstation, 8730w, 8530p, Workstations, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Gateway DX4200-UB001A

We didn't love Gateway's new FX4710 performance desktop because it sacrificed extra features (say, a faster 3D card?) for the sake of plumping its memory specs. We felt the same trepidation with the $750 DX4200, but the fact is that this desktop is the best-equipped mainstream midtower on the...

Tags: Network technology, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Gateway DX4200, FX4710, Gateway Inc., 64-bit

Product reviews 2008-08-08

Gateway GT5692

The $550 Gateway GT5692 is part a new batch of recently released midrange desktop PCs. This particular configuration has an AMD Phenom X3 8450 triple-core processor, 4GB of memory, HDMI-out, and 64-bit Windows Vista. The package gave us decent speed and benchmarking results, so if you're looking for a dependable...

Tags: Video cards, Network technology, Semiconductors, Desktops, Gateway GT5692, Gateway Inc.

Product reviews 2008-08-06

ATI Radeon Display Driver with Catalyst Control Center (Windows XP) (exe)

This particular software suite updates both the AMD Display Driver and the Catalyst Control Center. The unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability.Catalyst 8.7 adds an enhancement to the Catalyst Control Center Information Center: full Hardware information will be shown for...

Tags: cisco catalyst, microsoft windows xp, ati radeon, microsoft windows, ati technologies inc.

Software downloads 2008-08-06