Stash of graphics cards reviewed

HARDWARE ZONE gets to taste the ATI Radeon X700 Pro with a seven card shoutout coming from different manufacturers. This PCI-e card is what ATI has positionned to counteract the 6600GT and it does so convincingly.

TT-hardware and HardOCP both evaluates the SLI technology 100 days after its formal launch. TT-hardware tests a real-world rig, based on its own purchase rather than one ready made sent from manufacturers. HardOCP is critical of the number of patches and bug fixes that SLI technology needs in order to get it working properly and when it does so, the number of software and the performance is very often much less than expected.

Chinese translation needed. HKEPC tests the Galaxy Geforce 6800 on the PCI-e bus. The card performs well and handily beats the 6600GT and probably the X700Pro from ATI. In another test, HKEPC pits the Galaxy Geforce 6200A, the NV44A against the ATI 9550 and finds out that even a 64-bit version of the former beats the 9550 in most scenarii.

Doomed PC has a short tutorial to teach us how to unlock those hidden pipelines in a PNY Verto Geforce 6200 AGP card - which should be valid for all 6200 cards. It also overclocks it as well. The photos are awful but other than that, Doomed PC goes through every step of the morph.

The X800XL was bound to hit the headlines again as the prices of the latter decreased dramatically in the past few weeks. Xbitlabs has a review of ATI's latest competitor to the 6800GT over a formidable 22 pages filled with data. Firingsquad has a roundup of six of those cards and has a rating for the noise level as well. The 6800GT is also tested and a fierce battle is sure to take place. µ

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