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Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 2GB
PCI; RAM: 2048 MB; Processor clock speed: 870 MHz; Shader model version: 13.9; Cooling …; Newest review: 8/2009 "... The Sapphire Vapor-X is a great bit of kit that, as we've shown, really does cool very well. ... Even at 70% the fan produced a much more pleasant hum than the stock coolers whir. … 1 review |
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GigaByte GV-NX85T256HP
PCI; RAM: 256 MB; Processor clock speed: 600 MHz; DirectX version: 10; Shader model version: …; Newest review: 11/2007 "... It is a solid low end card made to function at a higher level. The Gigabyte GeForce 8500 GT TurboForce Ultra Edition is quiet and powerful enough for casual gamers to have a bit of … 1 review |
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BFG Tech Ageia Physx
PCI; Newest review: 4/2007
"PhysX demonstrates the power of physics hardware, but it's let down by games support. Until there's a title that requires one of these cards, you're better off putting the
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More information at: Pocket-lint.co.uk, 1/2007 AGEIA PhysX PPU graphics card The concept of a dedicated add-on card just for gamers really isn’t anything new. Heck, who didn’t go out and buy a dedicated graphics accelerator to get the best out of Quake and similar games 10 years ago, just as soon as they had the available cash? The point is, if you want to get the best out of a game visually speaking then you need to throw all the graphics processing power you can get your hands on at it. Trouble is, we still want more realism when blowing up a building or torching a tank. So where do we go to get it? … to review
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Diamond BizView BV200
PCI; Newest review: 9/2006
"... The BV200 has a much older core and cannot support anything newer than DirectX 8.1. ..."
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More information at: Tom's Hardware, 9/2006 Low Profile Multi-Display Graphics on the Cheap Like most other computer components, graphics cards fall under one of three market categories: consumers, professionals and businesses. Each of these key groups can be broken out into subcategories, which target a specific audience. While we have had articles on professional cards such as ATI FireGL and Nvidia Quadro graphics for the professional graphics user, most of our graphics card reviews focus on Do-It-Yourself (DIY) and gaming enthusiast segments, as most consumer cards will follow the advances of this segment. We had the opportunity to look at a business application graphics card line from Diamond Multimedia. What is so special about these cards that would draw our attention to the business segment? The BizView MultiView graphics card line combines the functionality of dual displays and keeps a low profile form factor at the same time. This means that users can do exactly what Matrox did with its Dual Head2Go, which allowed a single DVI output to become a double wide screen. BizView cards have a special output and dongle that break out the image onto two screens. Two versions of the same product were reviewed based on features, performance and value for money. No final scores were given. … to review
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EVGA E-Geforce 7900 GT CO Superclock (256 MB)
PCI; Newest review: 4/2006 "Performance is very close to the XFX, and around 15-20 per cent faster than a stock clocked 7900 GT. ..." 1 review |
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The PCI bus was the previous standard for all add-on card in PCs. PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect, the standard ws developed in 1993 by Intel to allow users to change and upgrade PC components with other standard models. PCI replaced the ISA bus, which was a 16bit bus. PCI offered faster speeds and thus allowed 3D graphics cards to be fully exploited for the first time. 3D graphics demand a lot of data to successfully recreate full 3D worlds on the computer screen and as resolutions were getting also getting higher the amount of information being sent between hard drive, processor, RAM and graphics card was also increasing rapidly. Without a dedicated graphics card games could only manage paltry frame rates or would not run at all. The PCI bus was a great stride forward for IBM compatible computers but has sadly been superseded by the much faster AGP and PCI-E buses, still, ten years at the top wasn't bad.